Comments on: Wine drinking habits of the average American.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:23:13 +0000

Back when I was in college, we ran out of beer and the only thing we had was a bunch of bottles of St. James Winery Velvet White. Strangely enough, binge drinking those wasn’t too bad. But the hangover was HORRIBLE! To this day that is still my favorite wine and its under 10 bucks.

By: Wine Blogging Wednesday 61: At the source: Fulkerson Winery « Ithacork

Wine Blogging Wednesday 61: At the source: Fulkerson Winery « Ithacork — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:59:37 +0000

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DUI Attorney — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:00:14 +0000

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By: Morton Leslie

Morton Leslie — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:03:38 +0000

At one time I might have downed a bottle by tipping it once, but then I started to use a glass. Now I find I tip it a bunch of times as my wife and I consume it. My wife thinks I’m crazy because I take a cold bottle of wine out of the cellar in the winter, carefully cradle it, remove the foil, and then microwave it to room temp. I was so pleased to find Matt Kramer did it as well.

I remember a wine writer who had this ritual of “aeration.” He would open a bottle, hold the cork in one hand, his watch in the other, then after a proscribed time, like a minute or 90 seconds, pour a sample and put the cork back in the bottle. He would taste the sample. He would repeat this ritual, cork in cork out, until he thought the wine improved. In his mind he thought that each time he put the cork in the bottle all aeration/oxidation ceased (despite the ullage and all the air in the headspace he was creating.) His wine reviews always had the minutes and seconds he recommended for “improving” the wine.