Major fun! Tonight is Open That Bottle Night, a tradition started 10 years ago by Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher of the Wall Street Journal. This year, Twitter Taste Live, in partnership with importer Wilson Daniels, present a twist on Open That Bottle Night. Wine Bloggers around the country will be opening 4 bottles of [...]
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Lots of news in the wine blog world this week. First, Wine Blogging Wednesday news. David over at McDuff’s Food and Wine Trail posted his round up as the host of WBW 54: A Passion for Piedmont. David inspired at least 52 wine blog folks to break out Italian wines for the edition of WBW [...]
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At the DC Food and Wine Festival, I tried to quickly hit tables with wines I don’t get a lot of exposure to normally. I’ve had a few wines from South Africa, but not very many, so I made a beeline for the Wines of South Africa table. I felt bad for the woman pouring [...]
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Do you remember your first kiss? Well, you’ll remember this one. I chose the 2007 Camellia Cellars First Kiss Proprietor’s Blend to drink with our chicken soup. I picked this bottle up when I visited the tasting room in September with my favorite Lush and WineQT. I think it cost me $13 in the tasting [...]
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Wines that is! I rarely drink wine from Germany and it’s often a treat when I do to be exposed to some excellent Rieslings, (the wine that started my love affair with wine), and other fabulous white wines. This time I even got to try some German Pinot Noirs! Last weekend I attended the DC [...]
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Red wine is multiplying and having babies in my basement. We used to have just slightly more red wine than white wine down there….the red lived in 9 wine racks and the white lived in one old wine rack and 7 styrafoam shipper halves. Now, the red wine takes up the original 9 racks, plus [...]
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I’m slowly making my way through the half case of Cameron Hughes wine that I won at last year’s Wine Blogger Conference…hopefully I’ll be through it all by the time this year’s WBC rolls around. Speaking of, do you write a wine blog? Have you registered for the WBC yet? WHY NOT? Last I heard, [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. Clearly I can’t get enough of the Chilean red wines I feel like I’ve consumed gallons of red Chilean wines recently, but apparently it just seems that way since I still have 5 more bottles left out of the [...]
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As the weather warms (hush, 40 degrees is warm in February!) my thoughts have been turning to whites and rosés as I try to hurry in the spring. It’s coming, I swear, my daffodils and irises are poking through the ground and I think I saw my hyacinths coming up as well! So now is [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile And it’s more Carmenere! I think more than 50% of the case of wines from Chile consisted of Carmenere. I chose the 2006 Tiara Carmenere from the Rapel Valley of Chile. It had a real cork closure, clocked in [...]
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