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So last night, I ventured into the foray of online tasting, joining Master Sommelier Fred Dexheimer of Wines of Chile, 8 Chilean winemakers and over 50 wine bloggers from all over the place for a virtual flight of 8 Chilean Sauvignon Blancs. I hadn’t ever experienced anything quite like it, and the end result was [...]

I received this package a few weeks ago, containing 8 Sauvignon Blancs from Chile, courtesy of Wines of Chile, a group dedicated to the promotion of, wait for it, Chilean wine. It is a given that Chile turns out great value, yet they also make some of the most incredible top-end wines on the market [...]

My Cutting Edge rep, Lauren, dropped off some samples of Cartlidge & Browne’s other winery, Lot 205, perhaps two weeks ago, and I am just now getting to them. The inventory at our store has kept things consumed in numbers and everything else has been in a holding pattern, but here we go: Lot 205 [...]

Over the weekend, our DEP’s tastings featured some of my favorite wines – Rhone varieties. One of the questions that I got during our Friday night tasting at our Fort Thomas store was “what do you mean by Rhone varieties?” Obviously, the wine geek in me had been turned loose and I needed to explain [...]

The holidays always seem to sneak up on me, as if stealthily approaching to punk me when I am dropping trough or something, and then BOO! And I piss all over myself. Such was actually not the case this year for Mother’s Day. Call it my Blackberry assistance, call it my wifey always having my [...]

My love affair with coffee is well-renowned amongst my family and friends. I typically satisfy any carnal cravings I have for the stuff at a number of local Starbucks (I can hear the loud gasping from all the coffee purists out there already). But hey, I like Starbucks. True, they are the McDonald’s of coffee, [...]

One of the Washington state wineries I have always been big on has been Hogue Cellars. Back in October, as part of the Washington Wine Road Trip 2010, I visited Hogue, and was given a pretty profound lecture on the correlation between high phenolics and quality levels by Hogue’s red winemaker Jordan Ferrier. In layman’s terms, phenolics [...]

Was thinking about my agenda for this month, and what I hope to accomplish, with my job, my blog, and my life. Self-reflection is a crutch on which I seem to be overly reliant. Got a lot of plans for the next two months as far as the blog – a trip to Washington D.C. [...]

Trying to recover from every retailer’s favorite masochism exercise – inventory – I have been dreaming about mathematicians sheering my manhood with a dead porcupine carcass and all I want to do is sing “3 is a magic number.” As a diversion, I was reading various news bytes online, and came across a pretty mindblowing [...]

Last year, perhaps around August or September was when my RNDC/Cumberland sales rep informed me that they were picking up Bookwalter wines from Washington state. I was a huge fan of Bookwalter many moons ago, yet here in Kentucky, there was a leviathan retailer downstate that had swallowed up all the cool Washington state wines [...]