Wine Tasting Tonight – 5/22/09: ‘The Box is Back”

Bordeaux, Box Wine, Cotes-du-Rhone, France, Friday Night Tastings, Grape Varieties, Grenache/Garnacha, Rhone Valley, Rose, Vins de Pays No Comments

THE HOTTEST SUMMER ACCESSORY OF 2009?

BOX WINE

Here’s why:

  • Less packaging, less weight, less space all lead to a much lower per-unit cost than bottles. (Each of the boxes break down to less than $9/bottle) 
  • No corked wine!
  • No spoilage of open wine; it lasts for weeks… Read the rest of this entry »

It’s time, it’s time, it’s time…To Take a Giant Step to Dandelion

Bordeaux, Box Wine, Cabernet Sauvignon, California, Carignan/Mazuelo, Cotes-du-Rhone, Dry Creek Valley, France, Friday Night Tastings, Grape Varieties, Languedoc-Roussillion, Merlot, Sonoma Valley, Sparkling Wine No Comments

I want to share a song with you. The only music I remember listening to while riding shot gun in my mom’s 1952 Chevy Pick-Up Truck is Taj Mahal’s “Giant Step”  and the title song, “Take a Giant Step” goes something like this…

Remember the feeling as a child 

When you woke up and morning smiled? 

It’s time, it’s time, it’s time 

You felt like that again…

You know what I’m sayin’?  The rain has stopped and I think I might even see some blue peeking through the cloudy skies… But the best news of all is:

IT’S FRIDAY! Read the rest of this entry »

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