The third halloween cocktail for 2009, we’re getting closer to the day so let’s really start cranking through some sillyness. This time we’re creating the Sour Witch, another Jonathan Pogash recipe using Lucid Absinthe and sour cherries. We opened a bottle of sparkling wine earlier in the week so we’re using it with this cocktail [...]
The second Halloween Cocktail Recipes of the week? Bloody-Tini. This one may be challenging for some of the folks over seas to create if they don’t have access to VeeV Açaí Spirit or an equivalent product. If you have access to Açaí juice without the VeeV I’d try substituting pomegranate vodka or blueberry vodka. We’ve [...]
Today I was given a great opportunity to taste a 375ml bottle of Inniskillin 2007 Riesling Ice Wine (Niagara Peninsula VQA). I’m a huge fan of ice wines and this Canadian bottle has been tempting me to open it for almost a week and I couldn’t wait any longer. The 2007 Inniskillin Riesling pours a [...]
What is an aperitif? It’s a beverage designed to prepare your appetite for a meal. Dubonnet Rouge is such a French wine, often used in mixed drink recipes to add dynamic sweet factors. I’ll be making recipes in the next week or so using Dubonnet Rouge but, as I’ve preached in the past, one must [...]
The Vita Domani recipe comes straight out of the wine cocktail recipe list at Ecco Domani. Rick, from HelloVino.com and I explore this muddled grape cocktail with beautiful color and “fruit forward” flavors. This expands on our last episode with HelloVino in which we covered the Ecco Freddo – now you have to reasons to [...]
The writers of Wise Bread have put together a small budget book with large ideas and great tips to make your life in a downward economy a bit easier to live with. 10,001 Ways To Live Large On A Small Budget covers a variety of topics to save you money on great wines varieties that [...]
Common Man Cocktails get their first guest, the folks at HelloVino, they’re developing the worlds first fully mobile wine pairing tools to make life easier for the wine consumers. Our first guest appearance, Jim from HelloVino arrives at the studio with a few bottles of Ecco Domani’s Pinot Grigio and we pull out some watermelon [...]
Last night was time to clean out the wine fridge of old wines that probably shouldn’t have aged. After a night of decanting in the bottle, we’ve cracked it open for a taste. This is a 1997 Mystic Cliffs California Cabernet Sauvignon that seems to have aged fairly well since I bought it in 1999, [...]
Gewürztraminer, one of my favorite wine varieties. It’s slightly spicey, hence the gewürtz terminology which is German for “spicy” and traminer a family of grape varieties similar if not the same as Savagnin. I’ve found very complex Gewürztraminer wines, although I can’t say Fetzer is one of the more complicated I’ve had. But, it’s a [...]
If you’re in the New York City area you may be looking for something fun to do this month leading up to and beyond Easter. Here is a list of upcoming events from going.com to plan out your month: The Event: Pillows for Pints! The Official Pillow Fight Pre-Game April 4th, 2pm Place: SideBAR Cost: [...]
