How To Find Values On A Restaurant Wine List

One of the most stressful moments for a lot of business travelers is not when the client has an objection or asks a difficult question but when they are handed a restaurant wine list. Depending on where you are dining this can be a selection of a few dozen to several hundred choices or even [...]

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April 24 ? Florida Jim Cowan?s 2011 Tasting Notes Archive

The 2011 archive is presented by date the notes were compiled and submitted. Prior year’s tasting notes may be found here April 24, 2011 2001 F.X. Pichler, Riesling M: 13% alcohol; this wine has shed the fat and viscosity of its youth to become both more balanced and less powerful. Clean scents of fruit and [...]

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Competition Winners Announced

The winners of the 70th annual Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition were announced today and the list is an impressive one! A box wine, a Scotch whisky, repeat winners (Armida Winery and baseball legend Tommy Lasorda) and so much more! Take a look at the winners here then check out the buzz on [...]

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Calistoga ? Really Getting Away in the Napa Valley

But there is a quiet place in the Napa Valley much unchanged over time. That place is the historic town of Calistoga, at the very northern end of the Valley. It is here where you can find delightful things to do at a much slower pace. Continue reading

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WBW 71 Wrap-up: (Mostly) New World Rhones

It has been nearly three years since I last hosted Wine Blogging Wednesday but my choice of theme was easy. Wines made from Rhône varieties are among my personal favorites and I was hoping to learn about many more new wines from participants this month. There were 25 bloggers posting reviews from all over the [...]

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Weekend Boston-area Wine Tastings

Lots of notable tastings in the Boston area this weekend (March 19th and 20th, 2011):
  1. Plumpjack/Cade tasting at Newton Lower Falls
    From noon - 4 pm Saturday they'll be pouring wines from Plumpjack along with their newer label Cade. I had an '06 Cade Howell Mountain recently and thought it was an incredible wine. I stopped in their yesterday and noticed they had some well-priced bottles of Seghesio (Sangiovese, Barbera) kicking around after their tasting earlier this week.
  2. Spanish Festival
    Wine ConneXtion in North Andover on Saturday from noon - 5 pm.
  3. Shawsheen Village Liquors Spring Tasting
    From 3 pm - 6pm on Saturday they're holding their Spring Grand Tasting.
  4. Spring Tasting Extravaganza at Fifth Ave. Liquors in Framingham
    From 2 pm - 5 pm on Sunday they're pouring 50+ wines at special event pricing. Visit their site to see a listing of the wines. Thanks to reader KC for the tip on this one.
For more events in your area check out LocalWineEvents.com

Any other wine related stuff going on in the Boston area you'd like to mention? Leave a comment to share a tip.


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Grape Radio Interviews Author Rex Pickett

My friends at Grape Radio have posted a great interview with Rex Pickett, the author of ‘Sideways’ and its sequel ‘Vertical.’ Although the guys spend much of the podcast talking about ‘Sideways’ Pickett does work in plenty of details about his latest novel. Between this and the written interview posted recently by Blake Gray, I [...]

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Alan Kerr?s Vintage?s April 30th Release ? Tasting Notes

Due to a change of date for the Vintages tasting, I was able to scribe a few notes on the next two releases. The focus this month is ?All in the Family?, otherwise known as Aussie dynasties and their notable wines. Interesting to note, all but two of the Australian wines were in screw top [...]

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