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More Opportunities to Drink Local Wine: Maryland Wine Week
Opportunities to Drink Local Wine continue next month as the Maryland Wineries Association announces Maryland Wine Week, running June 8-17. During this week several Maryland restaurants and wine shops will "celebrate local wine and produce by hosting a...
DIRECT Conference Gives Wineries Tools to Succeed in Changing Direct Shipping Environment
ShipCompliant launched its first Direct Shipping Seminar & Users Conference in 2006, one year after the groundbreaking Granholm v. Heald Supreme Court ruling that put the framework in place for the direct shipping landscape as we know it today. Since the 2005 ruling, 26 new states have opened or adopted a new permit system for...
When The World’s Greatest Foodie Took On Wine
Mary Frances Kennedy (M.F.K.) Fisher shuffled off the mortal coil twenty years ago this Summer. Twenty years on after her departure, her status has not change a single jot: Fisher’s still the greatest food writer who has ever lived. Don’t believe me? Try out the latest collection of some of her work, Musings On Wine...
Wine Tasting Video: Valpolicella – the perfect summer red?
Alpha Zeta V Valpolicella 2011 (£8.99 Noel Young Wines, Stainton Wines, Corks Out, Richard Granger Wines, Noble Green Wines, Flourish & Prosper, Dalling & Co, Valvona & Crolla) Crunchy young style, has succulence, bite, notes of raspberrie...
Portalupi Wine 2009 Mendocino County Barbera
Regular Retail Price:
$36.00
The Wine Spies One Day Price:
$26.00
Varietal:
Barbera
Region:
California: Mendocino...
Wine in the Woods – May 19 and 20
Wine in the Woods is a large wine festival in Columbia, Maryland usually held the third weekend of May.
Taste Camp East 2012 – To each their own!
This year I attended the 4th annual Taste Camp, which was hosted in Virginia for the first time (Northern Virginia wine country to be specific). This year what really stood out as unique were the marked differences in grape growing and vineyard management techniques between the winemakers with whom we had the pleasure of taking vineyard...
Visiting Rioja
Ah, Rioja! All those years spent at the International Wine Center studying the differences between the soil of the Rioja Alavesa above the Elbo river, and the Rioja Baja and Rioja Alta finally paid off. This was a scholarly trip with a group of very well-educated educators, with a focus on the wines and wineries...
Ramey Syrah Sonoma Coast 2007 wine review by (PB)
Dark garnet tomato hue with thick bouquet of rich berry fruit and cigar box goodness with a touch of menthol or eucalyptus. (On opening there was a distinct presence of meat. but that has dissipated on breathing.)Palate--Rich textured, big fruit palate...
