wine at home

Here and There

January 23, 2012

I’ve been traveling all over the place, for work and for pleasure, hence the lack of restaurant and cooking project posts in January. Once I got back from Savannah yesterday afternoon, I spent the rest of the day cooking and watching football, and it was pure pleasure spending some time in the dojo. As I’ve […]

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Favorites of 2011 [Booze]

December 24, 2011

Moving on from cooking, we guzzle on over to booze. Mostly wine, some spirits. If you are not a wine geek, or aspire to be one, it may be best to just skip this post. And I realize listing some of these wines is a touch braggadocio, but let’s be real, food blogging is often […]

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Minor Differences [wine]

November 21, 2011

There are a lot of distinctions in wine, some not so subtle, which is to be expected when we’re talking about a marketed, profit generating product. I won’t say they are intended to confuse the average consumer, but there are often trends and well-known names with an inherent value to be leveraged. Beaujolais is a […]

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Rock out with my stock out

November 14, 2011

For this post I also considered the title “Jock out with my stock out”, as this past Saturday also included a good bit of college football watching while making demi-glace with my friend Dude. See, it would have worked two ways. This was my first attempt at a true demi-glace, a rich sauce made by […]

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wine, food, fun, etc.

September 29, 2011

I’ve amassed a bunch of crappy iphone pics (and crappy good camera pics) to share with internet-land. Operation photo barf commencing. How about the above bar near Lake Burton? I’m considering opening a satellite location in College Park. The wines I’ve tasted lately have continued to be an embarrassment of riches. Le Montrachet (right) is one of […]

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Hot Weather, Cold Drinks

June 8, 2011

There something so satisfying about the appearance of a cold beverage as it sweats in the seatbelt scalding summertime in Atlanta. You know just by looking at it that it’s going to be cold and refreshing. I sat outside with a friend this past Sunday, ate some smoked wings and enjoyed this amazing bottle of […]

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Bubbles from Around the Globe

June 4, 2011

  I tried some non-Champagne bubbles (weird, right?) the other week at a party. I did have some Duval-Leroy too, which is always nice for the money. I feel really snobby pronouncing it “luh-wha”, but I think I sound like a rube if I say “lee roy”. Unless I’m trying be ironic, then it’s funny. […]

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Burgundy, The Cruel Lover

March 1, 2011

There’s a good article in the Wall St Journal about Paulée de New York, an annual Burgundy wine event modeled after a similar event founded in 1923 in Meursault. Jay McInerney touches on the topic of the fickleness and more than occasional heartbreak of Burgundy. The wines of Burgundy have their share of corked or otherwise tainted […]

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