Posted This One’s For My Homeys to Gothamist
This isn’t goodbye. Well, actually it kind of is. I’m moving to London for a year to work on depleting their wine and beer supplies. Over the past three and a half years I’ve been lucky to gain thousands of new drinking buddies, including you. We’ve shared countless bottles of wine, glasses of scotch and enough cocktails to inebriate the lower half of Manhattan and parts of Queens. And then, of course, there were the...
Posted More Than a Middleman: Know Your Wine Importers to Gothamist
Recently, we've noticed we were wandering the wine store aisles trying to find that next new, thrilling wine (the kind we'd be thinking about for days) and we'd pick a bottle off the shelf and turn it around. Not for marketers' flowery language ("soft velvet texture"), but for something much more telling - a statement of philosophy in winemaking, grape growing and business standards. We were looking to see who imported this wine. There are...
Posted Cranberry Cocktails and Wishbone Dreams… to Gothamist
There are many things that get us in the holiday spirit. But none of them work as nicely as stiff cocktail. Being that Thanksgiving is the official kick-start to festive season, it seems only right to welcome it with a beverage that will put some color in our cheeks and some jolly in our step. So while we have the Pinot Noir all ready to go with our turkey, here are some cranberry cocktails to...
Posted A Convenient Truth to Gothamist
We’re probably not alone in the fact that we love wines from Burgundy but really can’t afford them. A great 1er (premiere) cru Gevrey Chambertain could cost us around $35 - $50, and while on special occasions...
Posted What Makes a Good Screw? to Gothamist
Corkscrews. That’s what we’re talking about; get your mind out of the gutter for a second (just for a second as we’re sure we’ll throw in a hooker reference eventually). Corkscrews come in all shapes and sizes....
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