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| | | WINE TASTING GUY JANUARY 5, 2010 A healthy vine is a …frozen vine??? Wine people may often be heard saying that wine starts in the vineyard. While this may seem obvious, what is less obvious is the feeling many wine folks say – that a bad winemaker can still make good wine with good grapes although a good winemaker generally can not make a great wine with bad [.]. | | | | | | | | |
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A WINE STORY | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2010  How to Train Yourself to Memorize Varietal Characteristics
White Burgundy Tasting. Imagine yourself at a very elegant restaurant, hosting an important client, or trying to impress a date. You both decide on white fish as an entrée, so you are leaning toward a white wine. And since Chardonnay is such a popular grape, and Burgundy, France, such a respected region, you decide to go in this direction. MORE >> -
DR. VINO | FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010  Seven layer dip: impossible food-wine pairing?!?
Football playoff season is upon is. The last college game wrapped up last night with the BCS championship and this weekend the NFL playoffs kicks off. So we need to pair this viewing with some food. Since we have previously tackled wings and chips and salsa , this time we round out the viewing with something heartier: seven layer dip! MORE >> -
WHY WINE BLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2010  Why Wine: Bonterra Vineyards Zinfandel 2007
Somewhere among my 50 New Year's resolutions (99.9% failure rate) was to leave my wine comfort zone more often as I continue to expand my trapped palate. To do so, I will have to taste, I mean drink, more wines that I never tried or wines I just never liked. So, to start off the new year I opened one of my least favorite wines, Zinfandel. MORE >> -
IMBIBE NEW YORK | FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010 Stories of Burgundy
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DR. VINO | TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2010  Imperfect storage, blogging, new critics, Johnny Apple – sipped and spit
SPIT: controlled storage. James, who has taken a couple of classes of mine in the past year, wrote that he recently pulled the cork on a 1974 Heitz, Martha’s Vineyard for his 50th birthday and it was drinking fabulously. And it still turned out to be the best wine I have ever tasted.&# Most excellent! SIPPED: musical chairs. SPIT: blogging. MORE >>
- Do you love wine? Visit the New York Wine Expo A WINE STORY | TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2010
- Don't Completely Trust Yourself at Tastings BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
- Stories of Wine, 2009 Part II IMBIBE NEW YORK | TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2010
- Trading down in wine 2009 – did you do it? [poll] DR. VINO | THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
- Malolactic Fermentation: Banned in Portugal ALICE FEIRING | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2010
- A Meaty Winter Braise BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2010
- Italy's Icons and Rising New Stars VIGNA UVA VINO | SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2010
- NV Jean Vesselle "Oeil de Perdrix" Brut a Bouzy SLAKED | SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2010
- Dard & Ribo, 2004 Crozes-Hermitage, tkgving '09 ALICE FEIRING | SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2010
- Getting Started with 2010 BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2010
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