Wine & Dine

Valentine’s Wines: A Nice Pair
I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. Never have been, not since I was a teenager in Britain and saw how some people – other people – got more...
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February 19, 2010

Holiday Wine Reviews: Notes from the Rhône and Australia
Holidays are a great time to open hopefully great wine; they’re not always a great time to take great notes. I can’t say too much more, for instance, about the...
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January 13, 2010

The New York Diner (and Drinker)
I don’t know whether to be proud or, frankly, embarrassed that I can fit quite so much in to my brief trips down to New York City. Does it make...
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December 23, 2009

Vegan New York
It turned out that October 25-31st was World Go Vegan Week, which is mildly ironic as I used my time down in New York City last week to deliberately search...
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November 2, 2009

New York Wine Report 2: Heron Hill, Standing Stone, Cascata, Cascade Mountain & Brotherhood,
While I was happy to check out a couple of interesting new wineries at the Hunter Mountain Microbrew and Wine Fest on September 27 (see first report), I was equally...
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October 18, 2009

New York Wine Report 1: Silver Stream & Premium
On Sunday September 27, I attended the Hunter Mountain Microbrew and Wine Fest for the first time in a few years. As ever, the Microbrews were the stronger draw –...
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October 14, 2009

An evening with Kermit Lynch wines
On Saturday September 26, Posie and I attended a Kermit Lynch Wine Tasting on the top floor art gallery of Hudson Wine Merchants (in Hudson, New York) hosted by KL...
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October 6, 2009

Wine Tasting In The Desert
Think of Burning Man and wine tasting is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Nor the second. In fact, it’s probably one of the last things you’d...
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September 30, 2009