The recent news of perpetually-hip grocery company Wegman’s pulling out of the troubled PA Liquor Control Board’s wine kiosk program has caused a bit of a stir in the wine world, if we take “stir” to mean “mostly sardonic snickering, followed by a glassy-eyed stare caused by the grim realization that we live in a…
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For July 2, 2011
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be fun, quickly-and-easily-digestible reviews. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews from the past week…
The Long View Of Long Island Red (Tasting Through 20+ Years Of Peconic Bay Merlot)
“No one really gets to try older Long Island wine… because, well, there really isn’t any!” James Silver, General Manager of Peconic Bay Winery, was telling me about the dearth of older vintages for LI wine, as we stood on a small deck last weekend, overlooking their Cutchogue, NY property near the eastern edge of…
A Search For The Soul Of North American Wine Writing (Via South American Wine)
I think traditional American wine-writing may have totally jumped the shark. Yeah, I am actually going there. And yeah, it will probably take around 1100 words. You see, last week marked my (extremely) long-overdue second contribution to Nomad Editions’ iPad wine magazine, Uncorked. The long-overdue part is entirely my fault – things have been busy,…