Thanks to Craig Camp of The Wine Camp Blog for his assistance in getting me a press pass for this event! I will be attending both days of the festival, and look forward to visiting many of the over 200 wineries and vineyards that will be pouring their wines. I’m also hoping that John of [...]
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Dear Readers, My photo for Twisted Oak’s Take Your Rubber Chicken to Work Week has been chosen as a finalist! He’s up against some pretty good competitors to win, so if you would, please cast your vote for Bob the chicken. Voting is at El Bloggo Torcido through March 4, and you can only vote [...]
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Although I grew up in New England and didn’t leave until about 5 years ago, I’m tired of winter this year. It hasn’t even been a particularly bad winter here, and certainly not by the standards I was used to, but nonetheless, I want summer. So with that in mind I am pretending and drinking [...]
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Our assignment for the first edition of the Wine Book Club (WBC) came from David of McDuff’s Food and Wine Trail. He tasked us with a book longer than any I have read in the last 5 years, unless you count Harry Potter and law school case books. Yes, this makes me less than intellectual, [...]
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I am currently experiencing technical difficulties of an earlier than anticipated/scheduled meeting this morning (come on folks, it’s before 6am my time, this is way before I am usually up and ready to go for the day) variety and of an internet connectivity variety. Please stay tuned, I do have a review of Vino Italiano [...]
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The wine of the evening was a 2005 Michel Schlumberger Syrah from Dry Creek Valley. It had a real cork closure, clocked in at 14.9% alcohol by volume, and cost us $25 in a club shipment. It doesn’t appear to be available on their website yet, so I have no idea what it would cost [...]
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I took quite a while in narrowing down the bottle I was going to open for Open That Bottle Night, after Farley alerted me to the event. I initially put out a few thoughts on which one I wanted to open in her post on OTBN, but hadn’t quite decided exactly which one would fall [...]
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The wine for the evening was a Linden Vineyards 2005 Avenius Chardonnay. It clocked in at 12.8% alcohol by volume and had a real cork closure. This was a gift from a guest at our PS tasting back in December. On the nose of the wine I found pear, oak, butter, and toast. Or perhaps [...]
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Our host for this month is Joel, formerly of Vivi’s Wine Journal fame, but currently of Wine Life Today and OpenWine Consortium fame. Not to mention he’s got a new baby on the way within a few weeks! Talk about a busy guy. Anyway, he’s come up with a new twist for this month: Comfort [...]
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My rubber chicken came to work with us today, and hopefully had a good time. He got a little bored on our 40+ minute commute into the city and tried to drive, but Matt was having none of that. Now, I’m not sure how many of you have ever walked the streets of a major [...]
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