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Mad Men Cocktail Catch-up! Episode 3: Old Fashioned
It’s not the first time over the last 6 seasons that Don has ordered an Old Fashioned. I am happy, however, that he still does. For a while there, the show was overrun with Seagram’s alcohol and Johnnie Walker. It just got hard to write about things. However, this was just a nice, simple Old [...]
Some thoughts on Hedonism Wines
I visited Hedonism Wines for the first time today. You can see a report, mostly pictorial, on my visit here. Some thoughts: It is an amazing retail space. Beautifully planned and perfectly executed. It’s a bit like a museum of wine, where a wine lover can gain a good deal of pleasure from just wandering around [...]
Mad Men Catch-Up! Episodes 1 and 2: Galliano
Since the site has been down, I’ve falled behind on Mad Men. But I do have a few cocktail notes for the current season! In the first and second episodes (the 2 hour season premiere), the doorman has gifted Don and Megan with a bottle of Galliano, which they open on New Year’s Eve, 1967. [...]
Review of the Cincinnati International Wine Festival
by Kevin Cincinnati Intl Wine Fest A few thoughts this year, first, I seem to have been excited about the right things. The ability to try different style of the same grape within seconds of each other is one of the key opportunities of the wine festival. For example, I was able to taste the Simi Sauvignon Blanc, a [...]
Morning walk in Yountville [Flickr]
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A Bubbling Relationship: Cava & Millennials
Editor’s Note: Lindsay Holes, a student at the Groupe ESC Dijon Bourgogne school, recently pitched a rather intriguing marketing observation among the Spanish Cava industry. We liked her take on it and so we offered her the CatavinoShow More Summary
We’re back! We’re back!
Oh my goodness! Earlier this spring, there was a “brute force attack” on WordPress sites all over the web, including this one. It took us down. In fact, it went in and modified some things that I’m still trying to fix. But finally, after 6 or so weeks of my fighting with both WordPress, code, [...]
A remarkable fortified dry wine from Portugal
This is an amazing wine. It’s from a now extinct Quinta in Carcavelos, Quinta da Bela Vista. The last crop from this vineyard was in 1969, and Carlos Fonseca (of Companhia Agricola do Sanguinhal, who bottled the wine in 1991, and holds the remaining stock) reckons that this particular wine, which is a non-vintage, has an [...]
Craft beer is too hoppy. Discuss.
“Craft beer is too hoppy. Discuss.” I tweeted that the other day in response to this Slate article. It sparked a good conversation on the twittuh and it seemed worth continuing here. While I like hops, there are a ton of hoppy and overly hopped beers in the market today as well as high-alcohol beers. [...]Show More Summary
Full bloom in the #napa Valley #wine [Flickr]
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Morning vineyard stroll in the Napa Valley [Flickr]
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Pietradolce Winery, Solichiatta, Sicily: Recent Releases
Michele Faro loves his mother, and I do too. In fact, I wanted to kiss the woman after a long day of driving from the northern tip of Sicily down to the eastern slopes of Mount Etna. Tired and hungry, I arrived at the tiny boutique hotel...Show More Summary
A brilliant Orange wine from Austria
Tried this today: it’s a brilliant Austrian skin-contact white. Just beautiful: one of the best examples of an ‘orange’ wine that I have tried. Schell Mann Achtung Wine 2007 Thermenregion, Austria From Fred Loimer, this is a skin-contact...Show More Summary
Flowering races forward! Cabernet in Yountville #Napa Valley #wine [Flickr]
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Spring morning French Laundry #Garden [Flickr]
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Some nice surprises from the Balkan wine festival
So, after two day’s judging, today was the Balkan wine festival here in Sofia, where a number of producers gathered to show their wines. I just wanted to report on a few particular highlights. First of all Borovitza, from northwest Bulgaria. This is a brilliant winery, making small quantities of wine from some really good vineyards. [...]
Vinography Images: The Endless Row
The Endless Row
McMINNVILLE, OR: Domaine Drouhin Winery estate Pinot Noir vineyards unroll over the hills of the Willamette Valley. The cities of McMinnville and Newburg are the epicenter of Oregon's wine production.
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Cook & Corks: Japanese Food & Wine PairingThursday, August 1st from 7:30pm - 9:30pm
The art of food and wine pairing is a specialty at the Wine School. After all, we are the folks who created the two most popular food & wine classes in Philadelphia: the Sommelier Smackdown, and... Check out the rest at Epikur Magaz...
Sommelier Secrets Thursday, August 8th from 7:30 - 9:30pm
Sommeliers like ourselves have a few trade secrets. We know how to make cheap wine taste like a more expensive bottle. We know how to buy great wine by just reading the fine print on the bottle. We... Check out the rest at Epikur Magazine!
Sommelier Smackdown Wednesday, July 31st from 7:30pm - 9:30pm
The Wine School's signature event!Imagine two of the city's top wine professionals competing to create the perfect food & wine pairing...and all for you! We pit one of Philadelphia's top... Check out the rest at Epikur Magazine!
