Thursday, July 15th, 2010
And We Stormed The Bastille Alright… Ladies and Gentlemen of the vine: On this, the day after Bastille Day, the year of the wine bottle 2010, I bring to you descriptions of an evening reminiscent of that fine day in French histoire whence the Revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in 1789 (only three years ago!). The [...]
And we stormed the Bastille alright…
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Hills Like White Bostonians Ernest Hemingway loved to fish and see bull fights. This is not a story about fishing and bullfighting. This is a story about June 10-14, just about a week ago, when I sailed the Hudson north and then trekked across thick jungled accents only to find myself in Boston, a city [...]
Hills Like White Bostonians
Tags: ARASK, Bullfighting, Cabriniwines.com, Callet, dinner party in boston, Dram, Evoe!, Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants, Mallorca, Mantonegro, Matt Franco, Mayahuel, Mayur Subbarao, Ribera Del Duero, Spain, Tinto Fino
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
The Noble Rot Does Rioja The sweltering humid evening of this, the past Friday, in the year of the Tiger, we of The Noble Rot (Jonny Cigar (me) & Brian Quinn) did but host and did but bring to a parlor-room full of Noble Guests an event that beheld……. RIOJA. Twas in Park Slope that [...]
Noble Rot does Rioja
Tags: a brownstone in park slope, Aprille Goodman and her band, Brian Quinn, Cabrini Wines, Cabriniwines.com, Eguren, Eguren Family, Jonny Cigar, Josh Greenfield, Muga, Noble Rot, Protocolo, Rioja, San Vicente, Sierra Cantabria, Spainm Marcin JM, Tempranillo, Y-I-EAT-IN
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