I went to a fascinating wine tasting yesterday at the nearby New York Wine and Culinary Center. The wines were all Long Island merlots. I wasn’t expecting to like them all that much because (a) I don’t like New World merlot much in general and (b) I don’t like Long Island (a few Billy Joel …
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Booze blogging!
We’ve never tried blogging about booze, the hard stuff, the sauce, here before. So I’m going to give it a try. First off, I don’t know much about hard alcohol. But I’ve been watching a lot of “Mad Men” and I’m fairly certain I will look more or less exactly like Roger Sterling when my …
The return of wine blogging
I just returned from a fascinating wine tasting held at the New York Wine and Culinary Center (in Canandaigua, NY). It was an all cabernet franc tasting — 21 different cab francs, 17 from the Finger Lakes (all from the 2007 vintage), three from the Loire region of France, and one from Long Island. Cabernet …
Wine blogging: the Napa Valley of Canada
I drive from Rochester to Toronto, Waterloo, and Hamilton fairly regular and I find myself astounded by how many wineries there are in the Niagara region. However, I’ve never had a wine from there that I liked that much. The rieslings, sauvignon blancs, chards, and ice wines (usually either vidal or riesling) are fine, but …
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