Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
The self described "Manhattan-based international food, wine, travel, and lifestyle journalist" Marisa D’Vari has launched a new wine blog she’s calling: "A Wine Story". Marisa has written for a number of publications and now has found herself on to the blogosphere. Marisa lives in the center of the universe (read: New York City) so you can expect, it seems, a slight emphasis on that neck of the woods. I was intrigued by her latest post in which she wonders, "how…
Last week many of us read about the sale over in London of an extraordinary collection of wine: A 135-Bottle Vertical Collection of Chateau d’Yquem ranging from 1860 to 2003. First off, if you don’t salivate at the very thought of obtaining such a collection of wine then, well, then I question your status as even a semi-wine geek. Steve Bachmann over at The Wine Collector Blog, a member of the board of directors of the society for wine geeks,…
I have to admit that of late it seems I’ve encountered far fewer "corked" wines than in the past. I’ve no solid, scientific evidence to know this. It just seems this way. What’s interesting is that as many lower priced wines transition to screwcaps it is the mid priced and higher priced wines more likely to bless us with that unique "hair of the dog" or "wet newspaper" aroma that comes with tainted corks. I’ve sent wines back a number…
Ours is a culture in which information almost always serves commerce. This is particularly true of wine information. Nearly all of the wine information we consume leads us in one way or another to disposing of our income or our capital. The critical question, then, is how good is the information we consume and use? Lenn Thompson of Lenndevours and Appellation America as well as other information venues seems to me to have combined good information with commerce with the…
There is a new MUST READ wine blog in town: BIGGER THAN YOUR HEAD, by Fredric Koeppel. Here’s the bottom line: Fredric Koeppel is, simply, one of the most experienced wine writers in America. For years (more than 20) he wrote a wine column for the Memphis Tennessean and , as a result of his fair, straightforward advise became one of the most respected columnists in the country. In 2004 he started Koeppel On Wine, still a "go to" wine…
