Sorry for the crass commercialism. Here the link to my Ebay auction for Luigi Veronelli's catalogue of Italian red wines (written in...

Just had a bottle of the Feudi di San Gregorio Irpinia Aglianico '03. Dark, almost black in the glass with an almost charcoal rim. No immediate oak...

Good day all, I hope I can get your help in finding information about a wine. A foreign customer of mine (my business is based in Italy) asked me to find the...

Hi, We just got a Trader Joe's food store in our town (North Carolina), when I used to travel to California, I'd buy their cheap Charles Shaw Cab and Saug...

I am doing an informal survey of laws and customs around the world regarding the propriety of children (that is, persons under the age of 21, 18, or whatever...

The Holiday season usually brings some new wine gadgets, and this year is no exception. One offered by Frontgate caught my eye because of the expense. For only...

Now there's a useful class: Schoolchildren should learn about wine - French...

This is a belated posting of my notes on a tour of a few vinyards in the Willamette Valley. No detailed tasting notes will be posted. Only my impressions of...

Anyone know where I can buy Frimas apple icewine from?

I recently was at a wine store where the wine salesperson was telling me about how great the Behrens & Hitchcock Le Chats Du Monde 2003 wine was - and that is...

My friend Sergio gets a kick out of my routinely predictable rants about merchants--usually restaurants--who insult their customers with confiscatory wine...

Last night was the monthly gathering of SOBER (Several Oenophiles Becoming Extremely Rambunctious); Tim Rankin hosted and put on a very nice tasting. An...

Betsy picked up some Schaller & Weber smoked pork chops, served those with a savoy cabbage/porcini/pancetta side and sweet potatoes. I was thinking Alsace...

For my birthday this year (in about a month) I'm having another tasting, which has become a custom. This year, the theme is Italian wines. Once again, as the...

Wife made a nice Lamp out of a double magnum of Schramsberg 1994 etched bottle of sparkling wine. Came out GREAT!!!! If anyone here wants an idea for...

French dinner notes: with Dungeness crab cake, Kobe beef tartare, and fresh oysters: 1995 Drappier Champagne Cuvee Millenaire - bottled for the year...

Was looking for something else in my '63 lichine and saw: great Growths (Grand Crus) Wine must be made exclusively from Pinot Noir, Pinot Liebault, and Pinot...

Hi all, I'm planning a 2 course lunch with the following: 1st course: baked macaroni with bolognese sauce (baked too) It's not a 1st course actually. Sort of...

In recent years, there appears to be a new trend taking root in the naming of wines. Having been enjoying the fruit of the grape for longer than most people...

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Recently while shopping in a very good Italian Deli in Kenosha WI, I encountered a guy offering samples of several different Italian wines - initially declined...

My local wine shop had some ($11+) and I bought a bottle. I don't try it every year, but was nonetheless disappointed in it. Is it uniformly poor? This...

A friend is designing a restaurant for a class and asked me for help with the wine list. So I have a fun (I find it fun) question for the wine community: what...

I'm not really sure whether Wombats are any good. The picture on Wikipedia looks like a horrid little Pig. Quite Obscene. Just not English. 42

Can someone tell me whether Wombats live only in Australia, or also on other continents? Apart from zoos, of course. We all know that Wombats are to be found...