Tomorrow we are on our way to Portland, Oregon to the 2012 North American Wine Bloggers Conference.  We were lucky enough to attend the first one in Sonoma in 2008, and it was a hoot, so we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to attend the one hosted in Oregon, […]

In 2008, at the first North American Wine Blogger’s Conference, Alice Feiring gave a of the keynote.  She closed her talk with the advice to “drink more Gamay.  I am not sure that she is only reason that we have been drinking Gamay, but I know that we have […]

The Israeli restaurant, Zahav, was not the only culinary adventure we had while in Philadelphia.  The first day we arrived, we walked to Rittenhouse Park and had the pleasure of dining at Parc – Restaurant, Bistro & Café on the square.  As I am sure you can surmise it […]

We had an interesting and unusual wining and dining experience last night.  We were visiting our wonderful friend and webmaster, Michael Waring, and had reservations at Zahav, a really hot Israeli restaurant on Society Hill in the Old Center City of Philadelphia.  A super friendly chap was the sommelier […]

A couple of months ago, I came home to a nice surprise from UPS.  It was a package from the famous Biltmore Estate Winery in Asheville, North Carolina.  They had shipped WineEnabler a bottle of their bubbly and a bottle of their white table wine.  Recently, we decided to […]

A friend of mine sent me a link to a nice graphic of per capita RED wine consumption in the world in 2006. I thought it was fun, so I’m just sharing.

St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow, and I normally think of this as a beer, not a wine, holiday. Though I don’t get giddy over the idea of drinking green beer like some people do, I still like to throw back a few Irish brews on this debacherous day.
However, as I read in the LA […]

The current economic crisis has many of us cutting back on our expenses. State and local governments are also running short of cash and looking for ways to trim their budgets. So-called non-essential spending is going to be hit the hardest, and wine drinkers need to be prepared for the effect this will have […]

One of the challenges that wine lovers face is cellaring their wine. Many wines that are worth collecting are also worth cellaring. Some wines require only a couple of years to reach their full potential. Other wines, like Barolo may require a decade or two of aging to reach their peak. […]

Okay. Tomorrow I’m off to the 2008 Wine Bloggers Conference in Sonoma, CA. Neil and our better halves arrived in San Francisco today, but I am lagging behind due to a conference I’m at for my day job.
Expect lots of posts either over the weekend or immediately afterward. We’re going to get […]