This week, I had the pleasure of attending (yet another) amazing wine pairing dinner at the fabulous Teikoku restaurant in Newtown Sqaure, PA. I know that you’re already sick of hearing about how much I love Teikoku, so I will mention only this: If you ever find yourself there and you notice “Pan roasted tilefish…
Portable and Somewhat Potable (Reviewing Volute’s New Single Serving Wines)
It’s not often that one receives three small (187 ml) aluminum shatterproof bottles of French wine in the mail. Even for someone who is used to getting media samples of wine, this was a first. So when a package arrived for me from Volute Wine, containing three bottles of their new “single-serve premium wine” from…
Wine 1.7rc3 (Why Wine 2.0 Isn’t Quite There… Yet)
Web 2.0 – the two-fer, el internet dos, the big web deuce. You understand it totally, right? Me neither! Good – that means we can embark on this here post together without any pretense… you know, we don’t have to pretend like we work at the Apple Store Genius bar. Anyway, my interpretation of Web…
The Summer of Wine’s Discontent (or "What Wine Can Learn From Beer")
The wine world probably won’t miss the Summer of `08. That’s because the Summer of `08 seems like wine’s Season of Discontent. A fictitious restaurant won an Award of Excellence from long-running wine institution Wine Spectator; Wine Spectator’s response, posted in their on-line forums rather than through a PR effort, showed a darker side of…