Such is the case of the 2007 Damiani Wine Cellars Meritage. was updating My Pro Cycling blog and enjoying just sniffing my wine glass. finished the one glass and saved the rest for the following evening (tonight) when I planned on my weekly Why Wine Blog update. It seems every winery in the Finger Lakes has a Meritage. MORE >>

However, it’s not perfect since Nixon liked wine but his presidency undeniably ended in disgrace and even Herbert Hoover apparently once had a large wine cellar. Clearly defining good and bad presidencies skates a little close to partisan coloring for this blog. But in gazing at the drink preference of Mt. MORE >>

Ken Wright of Ken Wright Cellars has a video interview on the tech blog Gizmodo. Why would this graybeard of the Oregon wine industry and godfather to the biggest little wine town in Oregon (Carlton) be talking to a tech blog? Gizmodo mentions that there are at least a half-a-dozen other vacuum concentrators in Oregon. MORE >>

This is my 200th post here at the ol' Brooklynguy blog. looked through the blog recently and I think there is some stuff worth reading, whether for entertainment or for information about wine. want to stop doing that, but I'll save that and other blog improvements for 2008 for another post. Kind of hard to believe. So good. MORE >>

In his first show after 9/11, Stephen Colbert ripped on “giftportunities,&# or the various form of cashing in on the ten-year mark of the tragedy including the 9/11 memorial wine from Long Island’s Lieb Cellars. Political Humor & Satire Blog. You can drink this. If you’re a f^(king asshole.&# Video Archive. MORE >>