PressDemocrat.com posted a piece today by Bonnie Walker that explores why wine might taste better when you’re out on the town. It’s certainly worth a read if you’ve ever wondered how much of your wine tasting adventures were influenced by your surroundings. Bonnie’s article lists certain tings that finer restaurants are able to do to…
Category: wine tasting
Come Taste With Me (Sort Of)!
Come taste with me tomorrow! Me, and maybe several dozen of my closest virtual friends, that is! I’ll be taking part in the next BinEndsWine.com live tasting event tomorrow at 7PM ET. The event is taking place via twitter, which you can follow by friending me up at twitter.com/1WineDude. Check out my previous post for…
Teikoku Tasting Wrap-Up & Azie / BinEndsWine.com Live Tasting Event!
I recently had the pleasure of attending a wine/plate pairing at the fabulous Teikoku restaurant in PA. The food, as always, was stellar (I suppose that’s par for the course for anything prepared by Iron Chef Takao Iinuma). The wines (selected and poured by wine educator, Matthew Esser from Shiffrin Selections and wine educator and…
Stop Picking on Robert Parker (the Subjectivity of Wine Tasting)
You can all stop picking on Robert Parker now. The oft-followed and just as oft-maligned wine critic extraordinaire is doing you a favor. A favor if you, like him, have a wine palate that tends towards the bombastic, that is. A great post on the science of wine tasting over at Catavino.net (and how that…