What a week it has been in the wine blogosphere.An interesting thing has happened - two interesting things, actually - in the past week:A potential wine legal development - namely, House Resolution 5034 - has achieved what recently has seemed totally...
The wine community today is almost like how one would imagine early the 1800's nautical community. How you ask? Don't worry, I'll feed you, baby birds. To me, I think of that 1800's nautical community like a scene out of 'Treasure Island', everyone swapping...
As many of you out there may already know, the Wall Street Journal has two new writers heading up its long-standing wine column: Food & Wine magazine alumnus Lettie Teague, and "Bright Lights, Big City" author Jay McInerney.They replace John Brecher and Dorothy...
In France, all the major red wine regions have a bit of a reputation and personality. The Left Bank is the eldest child, Burgundy is the youngest, the baby, and Rhone is that weird cousin that the rest of the family doesn't really talk about. In our little...
There’s a lot of hype building around the most recent Bordeaux vintage. What’s interesting about that last sentence is that I could have written it any year over the past few years, during which it seems as though the media covering Bordeaux’s...
Ever wonder if it's okay to send a wine back at a restaurant if you don't like it (the wine that is, not the restaurant)? Well, there's a simple answer, my friend: It's not.Sending wine back because it's not to your tastes is like ordering a beet salad,...
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