Fine Wines (Re)Visited

The Vine Times Daily Wine Pick - Raymond Reserve Sauvignon Blanc
2003 Raymond Reserve Sauvignon Blanc - The Vine Times Rating - 4 Glasses out of 5 Glasses (Excellent) A crisp and clean Sauvignon Blanc with a floral and orange blossom bouquet. Citrus, pear ,herbal flavors and good acidity make it a great wine with shellfish and other seafood dishes.For more please visit www.thevinetimes.com
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The Vine Times Daily Wine Pick - Ravenswood Vintners Blend Cabernet Sauvignon
2003 Ravenswood Vintners Blend Cabernet Sauvignon - The Vine Times Rating - 3 Glasses out of 5 Glasses (Well Recommended) This young affordable Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of plum, cherry with subtle hints of vanillin oak. A soft and smooth palate shows plum and black cherry fruit flavors. Spicy cinnamon and toasty oak flavors add to this wine.For more please visit www.thevinetimes.com
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The Vine Times Daily Wine Pick - Francis Coppola Syrah-Shiraz
2003 Francis Coppola Diamond Series Syrah-Shiraz - The Vine Times Rating - 3 Glasses out of 5 Glasses (Well Recommended) A deep purple colored wine with plenty of black cherry, raspberry, black currant, cocoa, pepper and slight spice characteristic.For more please visit www.thevinetimes.com
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Repost 1: Amazon Enters Wine Retailing
I am back behind the mic for another podcast and this time I’m reading a post from last week and reflecting about the comments.Feedback: winecast@gmail.comCopyright 2008 Acan Media, Inc. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/

Winemaker s Nose Insured For $8M
In what can only be described as a publicity stunt, Dutch winemaker Ilja Gort of Chateau de la Garde has had his nose insured for $8M (euro5 million). This policy was taken out at Lloyd’s of London who also insure wine critic Robert Parker’s nose for $1M.While I couldn’t find too much information about the […]

I m The Guy To The Right of Eric Asimov
It’s funny how things turn out sometimes. As soon as I think I have an idea so niche someone would not possibly do the same thing, that thing happens.I like the view popurls gives me on the conversational web, all on one page. So I thought an aggregator of the wine blog world would be […]

Perfect Thanksgiving Side Dishes, Pt. 1
Cooking the consummate chicken stock and making marvelous mashed potatoes…

Cabernet Sauvignon and Stuffed Peppers
This Week: Joe and Christina pair Louis M. Martini Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 Sonoma County with Stuffed Peppers. Share the evening as they enjoy this hearty meal and evaluate the wine.Click Podcast link for show # 4Show # 4 Wine LinkShow # 4 Recipe Link

Back in Action
Thumbs up from the Doctor. Joe and Christina will pair a Bordeaux with a beautiful steak dinner. Leoville Barton 1999.The above map will help those unfamiliar with the Bordeaux region.For further info regarding Bordeaux click here… Bordeaux Link

New Season
Its been a while but we are planning another show for Halloween. We are excited to get back on the air. Please Email us with any suggestions or comments………………. We’re also planning a trip to Napa and Sonoma in November…Thanks

French Pork Chops and Bordeaux (Right Bank)
This Week: Joe and Christina indulge in a vintage 1990 Chateau Trimoulet, St. Emilion Grand Cru Classe. Christina prepares hearty French Country Pork Chops. This is the second part of a four part Bordeaux series. Join them for dinner as they explore the right bank.Click Podcast link for Show […]

RAIN CHECK!!! Doctor?s Orders?
Due to Joe catching a nasty cold, we will not have our usual Saturday night dinner. Poor guy can’t taste a thing! Not to worry, Christina has the nurse uniform on….

OWS#4: Merlot Revisited and Effect of Vine Age
OzWineShow #4 opens up a Merlot and also looks at what effects vine age have on the final product.

Perfect Thanksgiving Desserts
Quick and easy desserts that complement your Thanksgiving dinner….

WBW 44: French Cabernet Franc
It’s time for another installment of our virtual tasting called Wine Blogging Wednesday (or WBW amongst friends) and this edition will be a tipping point for this event, I think, not because of being the 44th consecutive month or the theme, but the host.I’ve written about Gary Vaynerchuk here recently and I think his hosting […]

Julia Flynn Siler
Julia Flynn Siler received her MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business. She had written for The New York Times and had been a London-based correspondent for Business Week and The Wall Street Journal, where she currently works. After …

Andrew Zimmern
Andrew Zimmern is a food writer, dining columnist and restaurant critic, radio talk show host, TV personality-writer-producer, chef and teacher. Zimmern is an associate editor, food critic, and restaurant columnist for Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, and he …

Eric Felten
Eric Felten writes the celebrated cocktail column"How’s Your Drink?"for the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. In May 2007, he was honored with a James Beard Foundation award for best newspaper writing on wine, sprits or …

Wayne Curtis (Contributing Editor to Preservation magazine)
Wayne Curtis is a contributing editor to Preservation magazine, and his stories on travel, architecture, and history have appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Scholar, and American Heritage. In 2002 Curtis was Lowell …

Wine, Video and The Cult of Gary
Sometimes posts take several days, or even months, to get published here. Along the way, details are added and subtracted as I think about the story and form an opinion.This is one of those posts.I started writing this post on August 2, 2007 after 6 months inside what I began to call,“The Cult of […]

I m The Guy To The Right of Eric Asimov
It’s funny how things turn out sometimes. As soon as I think I have an idea so niche someone would not possibly do the same thing, that thing happens.I like the view popurls gives me on the conversational web, all on one page. So I thought an aggregator of the wine blog world would be […]

WBW 43 Round-up Posted
Joel has posted a most comforting summary of WBW 43 over at Wine Life Today. A lot of great stories and interpretations of the theme of Comfort Wines are chronicled in the write-up. And be sure to click on the video to groove to the classic UB-40 track,“Red Red Wine” while you read (nice […]

Lenn Thompson Head Writer of Wine-ing 2.0 (Updated)
PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW FOR BREAKING NEWSAfter several days of investigation, including sophisticated reverse IP address lookups, I have confirmed that Lenn Thompson, founder and editor of LENNDEVOURS, is the head writer of the satirical wine blog Wine-ing 2.0. The true author(s) of this blog have been sought for the past week by wine […]