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We love port wine, or at least I do. My son has gained an affinity for tawny, while I tend to favor vintage port but still love a good tawny as well. In general I consider port to be one of the great values available in the wine world, considering you can buy a 30 Continue reading A Good Value Ten Year Tawny and a Little About Port Wine https://www.redwineplease.com/a-summary-of-the-2013-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ 
Wine and Rosecliff At this point we’ve written about the wines and the seminars, and a little bit about the rest, so it seems like time to summarize the 2013 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival with eyes towards next year’s event. Cheri and I spent the weekend in Newport and attended most Continue reading A Summary of the 2013 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival https://www.redwineplease.com/the-best-white-wines-of-the-2013-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ While we tend to focus on reds, there is this whole sub-culture that drinks white wines and seems to enjoy them. We do too of course, though we do drink a lot more red. There were some excellent white wines at the recent 2013 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival. Listed below are some of Continue reading The Best White Wines of the 2013 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival https://www.redwineplease.com/the-wine-seminars-at-the-2013-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ As we have mentioned repeatedly, the seminars at the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival represent a unique chance to experience great wines and unique presentations from some of the biggest names in the field. This year I went to two seminars, one that kicked off the weekend Friday afternoon and one Sunday afternoon before Continue reading The Wine Seminars at the 2013 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival https://www.redwineplease.com/878/ We finally donned our lab coats and conducted an Aeration Challenge this past weekend on a wine we had previously reviewed. We aerated it many different ways and compared notes. The results were surprising. You can read about it at The Lab. A votre sante! Continue reading Initial Findings – The Aeration Challenge! https://www.redwineplease.com/wine-is-alive-and-schizophrenic/ I’ve been seriously into wine for twenty years, and have tried wines from almost every wine growing region in the world. I don’t drink the crazy expensive stuff, but do pretty well. One of the reasons I love wine is the fact that it is alive, changing from year to year and even over days Continue reading Wine is alive, and schizophrenic! https://www.redwineplease.com/another-example-of-why-i-love-great-vintage-bordeaux/ I’ve written in other blogs about my philosophy of stocking up on Bordeaux in great vintage years. Top shelf Bordeaux from the classified growths is expensive in any year, and downright ridiculously priced in great vintage years, but there are hundreds of lesser known, unclassified chateaus that produce excellent wine – especially in great vintages. Continue reading Another Example of Why I Love Great Vintage Bordeaux https://www.redwineplease.com/the-2013-newport-mansion-wine-and-food-festival-the-way-it-should-be-done/ All photos courtesy of The Preservation Society of Newport County This September 20th thru 22nd, the eighth instantiation of the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival will be held at various locations in Newport, Rhode Island, with the Presenting Sponsor again being FOOD & WINE Magazine. This is a premier event, and for my money Continue reading The 2013 Newport Mansion Wine and Food Festival – the way it should be done. https://www.redwineplease.com/food-and-wine-festival-at-the-providence-flower-show-are-you-kidding-me/ Unfortunately not. Picture the most ridiculously bad event you can. Multiple by 100. Replay it in your head because you can’t believe anything could ever be that bad. It just couldn’t. Nothing could. This was far worse. Extremely BAD wine tasting this way! Let me start by stating that they charged people money Continue reading Food and Wine Festival at the Providence Flower Show – Are You Kidding Me? https://www.redwineplease.com/perspective-theres-always-someone-with-a-better-bottle/ I generally consider myself a pretty lucky person. My family has never wanted for anything reasonable, my two children have made it through private college without the burden of loans, and we’ve managed to travel a good bit. Of course we’ve also drunk a significant amount of wine as well along the journey, and some Continue reading Perspective: There’s Always Someone With a Better Bottle |