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Caymus vineyards will be in town this Thursday, June 19th, for a tasting of their wines at Gasbarro’s Wines on Federal Hill. This looks to be a great opportunity to try some pretty impressive offerings. They’ll be pouring Conundrum, two Chardonnays, two Pinot Noirs as well as the 40th Anniversary 2012 Cabernet and the 2011 Continue reading Caymus Tasting this Thursday @ Gasbarro’s on Federal Hill Please follow and like us:   
 
I have to admit I’ve never been a huge fan of sake. I’ve tried it maybe five or six times, generally warm, and it tends to leave me feeling like I just drank lighter fluid. My son is a sake drinker, however, and he has good taste, so maybe there is something to this. Last Continue reading Sake Anyone? Sake Tasting with SakeOne Please follow and like us:
When you make the rounds of New England wineries you quickly get the message that there will be good white wines, some fruit wines, some hybrids (like Vidal Blanc or St. Croix) some light reds (probably Cab Franc, maybe Merlot) and some more full bodied reds made from grapes or juice that were imported from Continue reading An Excellent New England Red Wine from Saltwater Farm Please follow and like us:
We’ve been drinking a lot of Sauvignon Blanc lately, and when you’re looking for something in that family that doesn’t come from California a logical place to look is France. Bordeaux and the Loire Valley produce excellent Suavignon Blancs. Some are expensive, some are very expensive. I just saw a few bottles of the still Continue reading A Good White Bordeaux for Little Money Please follow and like us:
We met some friends this weekend in Newport at Thames Street Kitchen for dinner. Cheri and I have never been here before, and one of the other couples had not either. New restaurants can be fun, or not, but at least the company would be good so we would enjoy ourselves one way or another. Continue reading Dining Review of Thames Street Kitchen, Newport RI Please follow and like us:
We’ve been writing about Casey Flat Ranch wines for almost a year now, ever since we tried their wines at the 2013 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival. We love pretty much everything they make, and the best part is they are now available in Rhode Island at various locations. This really is great news, Continue reading Casey Flat Ranch on the Shelves in RI! Please follow and like us:
Since we’re almost through our 2003 Bordeaux, have tried enough of the 2005 to gage quality and progress, and are sometimes a bit impatient we opened a 2009 Bordeaux a little while ago to see what we might have. The results were pretty spectacular. Of course this doesn’t translate into a quality assessment across the Continue reading A First Glance Into 2009 Bordeaux Please follow and like us:
Marchesi Antinori has been making wine in Tuscany for hundreds of years. Their product line spans Chianti, Brunello, a range of world renowned Super Tuscans and all sorts of other things. We’d be hard pressed to remember an Antinori wine we didn’t like. This one certainly doesn’t fall into that category. Here’s the wine: Wine: Continue reading A Good Value Tuscan Red from Antinori Please follow and like us:
Excellent California Cabernet under $20 can be a hard thing to find. Sometime you catch a sale on a really good Napa or Sonoma bottling, but that is the exception. If you look elsewhere, either Central Coast, Mendocino or Lake you can find some pretty good juice at reasonable prices. Here is an example from Continue reading An Outstanding Cabernet Under $20 Please follow and like us:
With Alex firmly ensconced in his graduate program in Cooperstown, NY, we find ourselves passing through Albany, NY quite frequently, and usually around lunch time. This past trip we stopped at Provence, which is located in the Stuyvesant Plaza, right on Rt 20, or Western Avenue locally. As you might expect this is a French Continue reading Lunch in Albany, NY at Provence Restaurant Please follow and like us:
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