Sabrage is an age-old practice started by Napoleon’s officers when they would ride into town after laying the proverbial ‘pimp-hand’ upon their opposition. The town’s people would reward them with a bottle of Champagne. Preoccupied with riding a horse, the officer would simply draw his sword and lop off the top of the bottle. [...]
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 [...]
You’re freezing indoors, listening to the pouring rain and gearing up to drink a big fat red when, all of a sudden, it’s sunny and 90 degrees out. Since drinking most reds on a hot summer day will suck your soul out through your tongue and gums, you have to get your alcohol fix somewhere [...]
With the Pats winning all the time, sports bar celebrations are starting to break the budget. So for warmth this weekend and for the game on Monday, grab a bottle of Bodegas Viñas Zamoranas’ ‘Los Zorros’. This is a fat and ballsy Tempranillo in a Zinfandel’s body from the Castilla y León region of Spain. [...]
This is a mind-blowing value Chianti for about $19 retail. It has full-bodied raspberry and cherry fruit that saturates your palate, but at the same time, has enough acidity to make it feel light and not overbearing amongst all the fixings at the table. As you keep sipping it’s flowery aroma and rich [...]
This is our first $20 white wine of the weekend, but what the hell. You don’t want to look cheap, and this is totally worth it.
For those that only want white at their tabletop this Thanksgiving, pick this Oregon Seductress. This white will dazzle you with beautiful peach and cantaloupe fruit before it [...]
As I am writing this, it is 34 degrees outside and an uncomfortable 60 in my apartment. Winter is coming and that means that we aren’t drinking for fun anymore; we’re drinking for warmth and body heat. When it’s cold out you need liquor and spice to warm the blood as well as a little [...]
Vintage stuff is in. Clothing, posters, all the way down to vintage guitars and camera equipment. I just bought a pair of vintage hockey gloves because Paul Newman wore the same pair in ‘Slap Shot.’ Old stuff is cool, especially when it’s old looking and alcoholic.
May I present to you the 2005 Mas de Gourgonnier [...]
Have you ever had a Grüner Veltliner? They’re awesome right? So why aren’t there more Austrian wines around? Basically it’s because Austria is too frickin’ cold! Austrian wine makers have trouble ripening grapes and protecting vines from frost damage. That is until Fritz Zweigelt engineered an unstoppable SUPER-GRAPE! Zweigelt is very early ripening and frost [...]
Here you go, an oldie but a goodie. The 2005 Castano Monastrell. Monastrell being Spanish for Mourvèdre. I was first introduced to Castano with the 2003 vintage. It was incredible and only 6 BUCKS! Since then its popularity has increased and now it’s $9.
Even with the price increase it [...]
