Regions & Varietals
Biodynamics: Saving the Planet and Making Great Wine
With all the hype around global warming you’ve suddenly become a lot more environmentally aware. You’re already sleeping on unbleached cotton sheets and flaunting your PETA shirt while riding your bike to the supermarket to recycle your soda cans, but it just doesn’t seem to be enough. Isn’t there something else you could […]
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Wine of the Weekend
2006 Von Buhl Riesling Medium-Dry - $17»
The weather in spring typically switches back and forth from warm to cold and this year is no exception. First you think it’s FINALLY spring when you bust open the first rosé of the year while sporting flip-flops and shorts in 80 degree weather. Then, only a few days later it’s 50 and you’re wondering […]
Local Events
Silk Road Social»
Pho Republique Hosts Wine & Sake Sampling Event with The Second Glass
WHAT: The Second Glass, Boston’s new wine publication, and Pho Republique have partnered to bring you “Silk Road Social” an evening of wine and sake sampling with tasty bites. Come and wet your whistle with samples of exotic spirits and dive into Pho’s […]
The Second Glass
Snarky Napkin»
I just received this email from my friend via iPhone:
“So my dad’s in town for business and I’m waiting for him in a bar. A bar in one of the ballerest restaurants in DC (everyone here is old). Anyway, I’m having a nice scotch when I look and read the “warning” on the cocktail napkin.” […]
Following Summer
New Zealand!»
Needing a break from wine, our first week in New Zealand was packed full of hiking, beer drinking, and driving through the picturesque and changing landscapes of the south island. Our first wine stop was to visit a friend working a harvest in the Waipara Valley just north of Christchurch. We were greeted […]
Alaya's Blog
Review: Domaine de L’Ameillaud Cotes du Rhone 2005»
Domaine de L’Ameillaud is a small, family-owned estate in the Province of Vaucluse. I first became acquainted with this estate 2 years ago after trying their well-talked about Vin de Pays wine titled after the Province, “Vaucluse.” It was written up by a local wine writer as one of the values of the […]
