We are blessed throughout the year with great spirits, cocktails and accessories. Since our primary focus is reviewing “everyday drinking” equipment and spirits, we receive a lot of products to sit down and work with so we believe it’s time to build our holiday gift list. This list is good for the cocktail drinker, the [...]
The Champagne Cocktail is another classic cocktail recipe that may be just what you need to celebrate your Valentine’s Day. It’s a pretty basic cocktail that takes champagne drinking to a whole new level. You can serve your partner champagne to kick off the lovers holiday or spice it up a bit with some angostura [...]
Today we went off to the Boston Wine Expo, had a hugely great time. The wife and I bought the mother-in-law and got her to explore a lot of new grape varietals from regions all over the world. We started the event with a great keynote by Gary Vaynerchuk at WineLibrary.com. This was a double-blind [...]
If you’re looking to expand your palate past the California wines but do not want to risk spending too much money, start simple. For instance, the 2005 Chateau du Trignon Cotes du Rhône, a red wine from the Rhône region of France. Wines in this region have been grown since the pre-Roman days, if anyone [...]
The upcoming year, 2008, seems to be a big time for New Years Resolutions and new beginnings. Some people begin the new year pretending their going to start a new diet (again) or get that “new job” they’ll never apply for while others actually spring into action with real results. This spring we’ll see a [...]
Champagne is a fancy name for Sparkling Wine. A wine with bubbles, carbonated for your pleasure, produced exclusively in the Champagne regions of France. Believe it or not, many governments restrict the user of Champagne to sparkling wines made in the Champagne region of France which is interesting, where else does that type of odd [...]
