Tasted a Good Wine Recently? Snooth It...

Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2009 Wine Tasting

Hat tip to TechCrunch this week for point Snooth out to me. Snooth describes itself as "the world's largest and fastest growing community of wine lovers." TechCrunch's description is...

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18th Annual Boston Wine Expo 2008

Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 Wine Tasting

Just a few days left to get tickets for this weekend's Boston Wine Expo at the Seaport World Trade Center! Catch TV chefs and culinary experts Lidia Bastianich, Ming Tsai, Martin Yan, Sara Moulton...

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Zinfandel Festival 2009

Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 Wine Tasting

If you haven't yet, you might want o get hold of a ticket to the Zinfandel Festival to be held in San Francisco on January 28-31, 2009. This year's theme is "Unmask Your Passion"....

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A Philosophy of Wine?

Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 Wine Tasting

Is wine a topic for Philosophy? Barry Smith thinks so... I mentioned elsewhere this week that one of my favorite websites was Philosophy Bites. The website makes podcasts available - podcasts of...

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Pinot Grigio for New Years Eve

Date: Thu, Jan 1, 2009 Wine Tasting

My wife and I dropped in on some friends early on NY Eve. We'd planned to be home by 11pm or so. After all, we live in a very rural area and it's not like there are block parties going......

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Tilar J. Mazzeo's "The Widow Clicquot" Tells How Champagne Became Famous

Date: Wed, Dec 31, 2008 Wine Tasting

Jane and Michael Stern has a great review of Tilar J. Mazzeo's biography of Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin in the NY Times on Sunday. With New Year's Eve upon us and a glass of bubbly soon to...

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Wine Without Clothes: The Naked Wine Show

Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 Wine Tasting

Susan Sterling has brown straight hair that flows down to at least her chest and a small mole on the...

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Gary Vaynerchuk on South Africa's Pinotage...

Date: Sun, Dec 7, 2008 Wine Tasting

I wandered upon this podcast of Gary Vaynerchuk and couldn't help but be entertained. I suppose I've lived a deprived life until now, having managed to reach the age of 48 without actually seeing any of Gary's previous 589 wine podcasts.

Gary has a unique style and his animated stage presences makes me wonder if he's had a Starbucks expresso doppio (or two) before the cameras start rolling.

This particular podcast is a look at Pinotage - the South Africa cross between Pinot noir and Cinsaut. It is widely regarded as South Africa's signature wine.

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Do You Have Your Champagne for New Year's Eve Yet...?

Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2008 Wine Tasting

Heather Johnson gives us a few tips for picking out a bottle of champagne or sparkling wine for New Year's Eve. It's not like you can do without some the bubbles in your glass for that one night each year.

Heather's tips on dryness and fruitiness are especially useful if you aren't particularly familiar with terms like "brut" and "demi-sec." She also looks at price considerations and tells you how you can find a good bottle of sparkling wine without blowing January's rent...

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NY Wine Lovers Taste 2008 Beaujolais Nouveau

Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2008 Wine Tasting

French vintner are hoping that this years offering of Beaujolais nouveau will raise spirits during the hard financial times facing much of the world, according to the Associated Press. The vintage is traditionally released on third Thursday of November.

Beaujolais nouveau is a red wine made from Gamay grapes produced in the Beaujolais region of France. Production methods leave little tannin in the wine. It is a light, fruity wine best served slightly chilled. Critics generally hate it, but the French public (and many New Yorkers) love it...

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Learning about Gigondas

Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 Wine Tasting

The French wine appellation of Gigondas tends to get overshadowed by its flashy and better-known cousin, Chateauneuf du Pape. However, the smooth red wines of this Rhone Valley region have a charm and complexity all of their own. Like Chateauneuf, they are made with primarily Grenache grapes, but the similarity ends there as James Molesworth of "Wine Spectator" magazine illustrates in the video below:

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Learning about Gigondas

Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 Wine Tasting

The French wine appellation of Gigondas tends to get overshadowed by its flashy and better-known cousin, Chateauneuf du Pape. However, the smooth red wines of this Rhone Valley region have a charm and complexity all of their own. Like Chateauneuf, they are made with primarily Grenache grapes, but the similarity ends there as James Molesworth of "Wine Spectator" magazine illustrates in the video below:

See full article.

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Drink Local Wine

Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 Wine Tasting

Celebrate Wine is pleased to be a part of a new wine-writing project called "Drink Local Wine." The site brings together wine journalists, sommeliers, bloggers, and other wine enthusiasts from 16 "non-west coast" states and Canada. The goal is to enforce the reality that North American wine is not just about California, Oregon, and Washington anymore.

At "Drink Local Wine," you'll find information about wines from Illinois, Maryland, Georgia, and Wisconsin...and, of course, my home state, Ohio. Be sure to take a look.

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Drink Local Wine

Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 Wine Tasting

Celebrate Wine is pleased to be a part of a new wine-writing project called "Drink Local Wine." The site brings together wine journalists, sommeliers, bloggers, and other wine enthusiasts from 16 "non-west coast" states and Canada. The goal is to enforce the reality that North American wine is not just about California, Oregon, and Washington anymore.

At "Drink Local Wine," you'll find information about wines from Illinois, Maryland, Georgia, and Wisconsin...and, of course, my home state, Ohio. Be sure to take a look.

^{(image courtesy of Drink Local Wine)} See full article.

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