“A Glass of Sicily” is a beautiful tour of Sicily told through a glass of Tasca d’Almerita. Sure, it’s essentially an ad for the winery and Sicily, but try to tell me you aren’t on the first plane to Italy after watching this video. Related: Pasta alla carbonara (usually spaghetti, but also fettuccine, rigatoni or [...]
The stigma surrounding boxed wine probably prevents most people (those that enjoy wine, those that are largely uneducated about wine, those that don’t care but don’t want to look uncouth, etc.) from taking the plunge and saving their money. However, you do so, according to Ari LeVaux, at your wallet’s peril. Go buy a box [...]
Apparently, Thunderbird, nobody’s favorite gutter jug wine, was originally marketed as a high class aperitif. And who should sell this to me? None other than James Mason. It’s not as effective as say, Billy Dee Williams pimping Colt ’45, but this still makes me want to curl up with a bottle for a Lolita, North By [...]
Having worked in numerous restaurants and as someone who eats out quite a bit, the majority of people, when ordering wine in a restaurant, all gravitate to the medium-priced bottle of whatever it is they want to drink. No one wants to order the inexpensive house bottle, but nor do they feel the expensive bottle [...]
“As dinner progressed and Sohm’s face turned an increasingly flustered shade of red, I accepted only one of his recommendations, a sake for a smoked-salmon carpaccio bejeweled with glittering salmon caviar. Otherwise, I grimaced and protested while he stammered and perspired. I wanted to see how well the “world’s best sommelier” could roll with the [...]
Dan Neil, for the La Times, looks at the ins and outs of the newest, douchiest wine going: Ed Hardy. The wine is yet another notch in the lifestyle brand belt for Christian Audigier. The Ed Hardy line is a tattoo-themed street wear imprint of the French fashion megalomaniac. (The actual Ed Hardy is a bay-area tattoo [...]
This is one of the coolest pieces of information on wine I have gotten in a while. I hope you all enjoy! You folks up north or on the left coast may be ahead of the curve and already read this from the NY Times…..down here in Florida we get cool trendy news a little [...]
Almost Chablis-like on the nose, slightly restrained with a touch of minerality. Medium-bodied on the palate with ripe honey dew melons & pears. So damn refreshing it’s like diving into the cold ocean with a mean hangover, invigorating every sense you’ve got. I’m having it with chicken curry right now and it’s sending chills down [...]
In an ideal world, I’d have the Wine Guy drop some Champagne/sparkling white knowledge bombs on ya’ll, but I’m not sure that’s going to happen in time. Luckily, the good folks over at Slashfood have put together a compendium of suggestions for New Year’s Eve. They have rated eight brands of bubbly of varying tastes [...]
[ed. note: We're happy to welcome Jacob Jata, aka The Wine Guy, back into the fold.? He's been away for a bit but recently he got? a great job working for a wine distributor and he's had more time to drink some wines.? That's good news for us because that means he's sharing them with [...]
