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Domaine Marcel Deiss, Alsace: Current Releases

Vinography: A Wine Blog — about 9 hours ago — Alsace, the oft-contested and much-coveted skinny strip of land between northeastern France and its neighbor Germany, is an odd and unique place. Like several other such zones around the world, it has been a part of so many different countries and empires that it enjoys a sort of twilight zone atmosphere, where place names reflect one language, spoken words another, and family histories often ...

Vinography Images: Manicured Napa

Vinography: A Wine Blog — 1 day ago — Manicured Napa OAKVILLE, CA: Rows of neatly trimmed Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines are seen just before harvest time in Napa Valley. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view a...

A fading beauty

Wino sapien — 1 day ago — Tomorrow the petals will fall and its sex will be awkwardly exposed, but for now in the setting light with its wizened and rumpled fabric it remains delicate and beautiful. http://feeds.feedburner.com/WinoSapien Click here for the original context

Livery Hall Ceiling

Spittoon.biz — about 5 hours ago — Livery Hall Ceiling The ceiling detail of the Livery Hall in the Vintners Hall, spiritual home of the wine trade in the UK, the Vintners’ Company, one of London’s famous livery companies. Despite the halls long history this ceiling dates from a remodelling in 1932. Just a sampler of the room in which Naked Wines held its latest Zero to Hero tasting where customers selected the Bolney Estate...

Livery Hall Ceiling

Alltop RSS — about 5 hours ago — Livery Hall Ceiling The ceiling detail of the Livery Hall in the Vintners Hall, spiritual home of the wine trade in the UK, the Vintners’ Company, one of London’s famous livery companies. Despite the halls long history this ceiling dates from a...

“See through the news and the views that twist reality…”

Gonzo Gastronomy — 1 day ago — BrewDog Gets Bitten By Rabid Alpha Male Nobody ever claimed that taking a slice of the market away from the top dogs in the beer business was going to be easy. But in what can only be described as a “holy shit did I just say that out loud?” moment, British beverage giant Diageo decided to screw BrewDog out of a BII award for Bar Operator of the Year by threatening to pull all future sponsorsh...

Me too, God. Me too…

Blog Your Wine — about 24 hours ago

La Paulee de...Austria !

Brooklynguy's Wine and Food Blog — 1 day ago — About 50 or 60 wine lovers came together to celebrate Austrian wine the other night at Seasonal Restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Stephen Bitterolf, the Wine Director at Crush, conceived of this event with an eye towards the famous La Paulée Burgundy dinners where everyone competes to bring the finest bottles and people walk from table to table tasting each others' wines. That's right - Austrian...

Brooks Ara Riesling 2009 - A Harmonious and Delicious Saturday Splurge

The Reverse Wine Snob — 1 day ago — Riesling from Willamette Valley, Oregon. SRP of $25 and available for as low as $24. Sample received courtesy Brooks Wines for review purposes. From the bottle: "Ara, the altar, is a constellation. It is also a pursuit, an effort to craft the best Riesling possible from our favorite pieces in the cellar. The Riesling for this wine was sourced from two of the oldest vineyards in the Willa...

Brooks Ara Riesling 2009 - A Harmonious and Delicious Saturday Splurge

Alltop RSS — 1 day ago — Riesling from Willamette Valley, Oregon. SRP of $25 and available for as low as $24. Sample received courtesy Brooks Wines for review purposes. From the bottle: "Ara, the altar, is a constellation. It is also a pursuit, an effort to craft t...

Love balls & unicorns in the Groover’s Paradise @emmajanzen

Do Bianchi — about 23 hours ago — “Enchiladas and barbeque, oh baby whatcha gonna do?” sang the legendary father of Tex-Mex music Doug Sahm. The line comes from the title track of his 1974 release, “Groover’s Paradise,” an ode to the River City — Austin, Texas. Today, in keeping with a long-running tradition of musician-friendly victuals, Austin has become the sui generis trailer park eatery capital of the world. A few m...

The Never Ending Story...Rebstock May 2012

Barry's Wine Notes — about 22 hours ago — Back to heaven... Tuesday 8th May 2012 The drive down had seen sunshine all the way. We even picked up a young girl hitch-hiker who was heading for Freiburg. Arrived at 2pm at the Gasthouse Rebstock....unpacked....then I just hit the bed for an hour. It's been a hard few weeks wíth the stress of the business and I need this holiday. Awoke around 5pm and browsed the wine-list...which had...

Saumur-Champigny celebrates biodiversity with a paper chase today

Jim's Loire — 1 day ago — Today the Saumur-Champigny producers have set up un jeu de piste (paper chase) to discover biodiversity in the vineyard through six stages. The route can be covered by any non-motorised means – on foor, bike, horseback or by carriage. Meeting point is the car park of the Cave Cooperative at Saint-Cyr-en-Bourg. There is also a dinner and concert with vignerons this evening in a cave troglo f...

A Beyra, o Quartz e a Altitude

Pingas no Copo — 1 day ago — Completamente influenciado pelo rótulo, pelo seu aspecto, por tudo e mais alguma coisa que não consiga eventualmente descortinar. Talvez tenha sido a palavra Beira, escrita com y, talvez a palavra Quartz que surgia em segundo plano, quiçá se não foi o desenho cartográfico da bacia hidrográfica do rio Douro, que despertou a curiosidade. Ou por que o letreiro, o rótulo, referia a palavr...

Weekly Wine Quiz #12: The End of Prohibition

Talk-A-Vino — 1 day ago — It seems that wine quiz #11, Bubbles, Big and Small, was really simple, and most of you did great – yes, the correct answer is 49,000,000 – assuming our source of information didn’t make a grave mathematical error (you can read about it here). For the next few of quizzes, I want to focus a bit on history. Actually, a wine quiz by 1WineDude Joe Roberts, called State of (Grape) Affairs, prompt...

Discovering The (Amazing) New Wines of Greece

Simple Hedonisms Wine Blog — about 23 hours ago — This week I participated in a Greek Wine live tasting. I get more invitations now to live tastings then I can possibly attend, or want to, so unless they are compelling wines, or a theme, I generally decline. This one was generally well done (although little two way interaction) with the best video of a live tasting, yet. I could have easily spent two hours in this session – 6...

What does Boris and Transport for London have against Natural Wine?

Jim's Loire — about 6 hours ago — The Real Wine Fair@Holborn The two natural/artisan/authentic wine fairs open in London today and it would seem that Transport for London has decided to make it difficult to get to them by public transport. The Central Line is closed between Marble Arch and Liverpool Street so affecting both fairs. In addition the Overground line from Highbury and Islington to New Cross Gate/New Cross...

Château Margaux in an experimental mood

BKWine Magazine — 1 day ago — The entrance gate and building of Chateau Margaux, copyright BKWine Photography More on Bordeaux. They have been doing some interesting experiments at Château Margaux reveals The Wine Sleuth, an interesting wine blog. At a tasting in London Paul Pontallier, director and wine maker at the chateau, talked about his experiments with organic and biodynamic wine growing on part of the esta...

Wines of the Giro Stage 14

winebookgirl — about 22 hours ago — http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2012/it/tappa.shtml?t=14&lang=en Up we go to the High Mountains! From Steephill: All the action on this stage is backloaded; the first 137 km of this 206 km stage after the start in Cherasco are almost entirely flat before two big mountains in the Italian Alps at the end. The two climbs are the cat 1 Col de Joux at km 160 which is 2...

Cute Baby Quail and Champagne? Plus, Portland Wine Tastings: Saturday, May 19, 2012

Portland Oregon Wine — about 21 hours ago — Cutes! My mom and dad live in southern Arizona, and mom sent these cute pics of two quails and their 15 chicks (are quail babies called “chicks”?). Now that I have seen these photos, I will not be able to eat quail anymore! Call it the “I Just Watched the Video On What Veal Really Is” syndrome, but quail is now on the No Eat List. Speaking of quail pairings, champagne is notoriou...

Eight reds (all very good)

At First Glass — about 12 hours ago — To load eight of them into one post might seem to give short shrift to all. This is not intentional; all really were very good and it so happened they all fell into my lap nearly at once. Now do they, in their baked fruits-and-vanilla richness and their "we're for grownups" tannic punch(es), come a bit close to defining the "global red"? Perhaps. Still, we won't complain. In no obvious order,...

CHARLEY’S STEAK HOUSE – ORLANDO, FL

South Jersey Wine & Dine — about 11 hours ago — A four-day visit to Disneyworld to watch the grandkids experience their first trip to the Magic Kingdom resulted in a Mothers Day dinner for my wife and I at Charley’s Steak House on International Drive in Orlando/Kissimmee. Much to our surprise they were having a Mother’s Day special where “Mom” gets a free filet dinner with any entree purchase of equal or greater value. We thought that wa...

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