Love my Wine
“Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.” – Ambrose Bierce Walk into any Central Market, Texas outlet and chances are 50-50 you’ll see a woman buying wine. No surprise there. It’s a fact of the wine world here that women love wine as much as men, even more so...
Scott Herold’s Redemption in 3/4 Time
In High School I was kicked out of a band because I could not sing like Sammy Hagar. Who the hell gets kicked out of some shitty band cause they can't sing like Sammy Hagar? What I was good at, however, was the Blues. I drifted in and out different...
iPhone and Leah Hennessey hear it through The GrapeVine
Leah Hennessy is the woman behind a great deal of millennial wine thinking and the brain trust of Millennier Wine+Millennials, her site devoted to how wine can best be marketed to the coveted demographic. Her bandwidth lately has expanded to include research and marketing of a very...
Boston Wine Riots continue unabated
If we could give out a wine tasting promotional version of an Academy Award, we would surely have to consider the best picture nod for Tyler Baliet and The Second Glass for the inspired and tasty Wine Riot. Millennial oenophiles in Boston get a front row seat for...
Wine+Chocolate=Amour, Cocotte & Passionner
Naysayers moan that it cannot be done, pairing wine with chocolate. Dispense with the haters. The truth is that if you have the right wine to complement the right chocolate it can be a pairing created in heaven! Whether you are pairing a delicate white chocolate or a lively dark...
With This Wine I Thee Wed..
Their voices are real and folksy with occasional attitude of sorts. For example, if one reads Joe's description of himself, readers would learn that he's an avid football fan, mainly listens to old Punk and Jazz, claims to cook better than his Mom and "once killed a man...
Wine and some sick love affairs
Romeo and Juliet were lucky to have had so many good wines almost right in front of them. Being from Verona, a beautiful Roman city in the Veneto, the two had Soave, Bardolino and Valpolicella within a few miles or less. Against that very cool wine reality, one has to...
The Super Bowl and our wines
Super Bowl XLIV is Sunday and we're wondering if there a wine that best matches the team profiles for the New Orleans Saints or the Indianapolis Colts or for that matter is there a wine most suitable for a halftime with The Who? One of the best people...
