Sounds almost dirty. The customer appreciation tasting at Hinton’s Wine Store is always held the last day of their 20% off wine case sale week. The store is usually filled with enthusiastic customers, eager to stock up on their daily drinkers or filling their cellars with premium collectibles. For 2010, the theme was Pinot...
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Wednesday night, July 21st, 2010, we attended the annual blind tasting challenge held at Chris Hinton’s Bin 75 tasting room in Johns Creek. It is the mid-week event during their anniversary sale, which nets you 20% off cases of wine. You can also score some wines at 25% off solid cases. Check the website...
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Roederer has always been a bit of a mystery to me. For the short time I’ve been drinking wine, I always found this particular product to be the rather weak link in the chain. For me, I’d rather have spent the same (often less) amount of money on their domestic tête de cuvée L’Ermitage...
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It isn’t often that we drink extra dry sparkling wines. First off, there really aren’t that many out there, with the vast majority of producers going with the drier Brut dosage. Those who do use higher sugar content often don’t call the wine Extra Dry, as this term is very counter intuitive. Remember, Extra...
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So from what I’ve read, wine reviews are considered lame and boring amongst some wine bloggers. Or at least that was what I gathered from a few posts / tweets I saw during the 2010 Wine Bloggers Conference this past weekend. I found it sort of ironic that some wine bloggers would take this...
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