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. Shopping Griefportunities. And no, it’s not priced at $9.11, which would be crass, he says, but $19.11. MORE >>

To purchase wines, consumers residing Annapolis, Baltimore or along the Chesapeake must buy from a local store; comparison shopping through retailers on the internet or ordering directly from a winery is illegal. The keys to reforming the laws that have kept Marylanders locked out of the wine cellar for several decades may be within reach. MORE >>

John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar , weighs in today with his thoughts on Mayacamas Vineyards. Let’s turn the floor over to John for his views from the cellar… Mayacamas Vineyards is one of the greatest cabernet sauvignon producers in the history of California. 2015-2050. 2017-2050. 2020-2060. MORE >>

This apparent wine lover’s idyll was not always this way: only in the past few years have the owners built up the wine program, in part by purchasing the cellars of now-defunct restaurants. And I know plenty of Connecticut wine enthusiasts who do much of their wine shopping in New York. Full text of A06884. MORE >>

I could probably grow old drinking exactly what's in my cellar now and be perfectly happy. But one day in February I was browsing in a large Manhattan store in which I don't normally shop, and I saw bottles of 2010 Montinore Pinot Gris on sale for just under $11. like to drink it cool - cellar temperature, as you would a Beaujolais. MORE >>