Archive for the ‘wine blogging’ Category
We’re Not Worthy
We’ll just consider this an open thread, but the picture accompanying this post makes me realize what a sub-par blogger I am when compared to sheer genius.
January 10, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
71 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, wine blogging
Thanksgiving wines
New York Cork report had a good piece up a few days ago about what various local winemakers were having with their turkey. The choices were good—lots of rose sparklers, gewurztraminer, and cab franc. Rose sparklers go great with almost everything but red meat, gewurztraminer has a spicy element that goes well with all the [...]
November 24, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 114 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, wine blogging
Drink of the week
I’m not a big beer-drinker in general, but this year I’ve gotten really into pumpkin beers. The style isn’t done that well in general—I find that most pumpkin beers are either too subtle on the pumpkin or are over-spiced and overly sweet—but I like trying them anyway. A few days ago, I had one that [...]
October 8, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 59 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture, wine blogging
Being Kitty Genovese
Franziapundit shoves her camera in some random guy’s face, he pushes the camera away, Althouse shrieks for the police, some poor cop has his next two hours ruined, and now there will be 5,000 wingnut blog posts about how wingnuts are always victims. I wonder she’ll will be in a wheelchair this week ala Kenneth [...]
August 13, 2011
· John Cole · 94 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Hoekstroika, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, wine blogging
In vino veritas
I don’t agree with John that there is no reason spend more than $15 for a bottle of wine. I don’t mind telling you that I have had much more expensive bottles than that Jayer-Gilles Echézeaux Paul Ryan had, courtesy of my bankster friend in New York (who is generally at least as far left [...]
July 11, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 114 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, wine blogging
A bit of wine blogging
I thought we could all use a break from Paul Ryan and the budget shut down, so I’m going to do a bit of wine blogging. First off, Evan Dawson of New York Cork Report, my favorite wine blog, has a new book out about Finger Lakes wines that looks really good. I got a [...]
April 8, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 118 Comments
Posted in: wine blogging
Happy hour basketball thread
A lot of discussion of martinis in the threads today, so I’ll give you my new favorite recipe: five parts New Deal Gin No. 3, one part Vya dry vermouth, shake etc., with an olive. Fee orange bitters optional. Also too, saw this at the shopping center today. We are all Burkeans now, I guess.
March 26, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 32 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, wine blogging
And a good saloon in every single town
I’m sure you’re tired of us hearing us all whine about minutiae like Bobo’s new book, the comments on this blog, and nuclear radiation, so I thought I’d do a feel good post about wine. I went to a wine dinner last night where I tried wine from Pennsylvania (a Bordeaux blend), Idaho (riesling), Missouri [...]
March 18, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 78 Comments
Posted in: Readership Capture, wine blogging
Holiday wine blogging
I haven’t done any wine blogging in a while, so I thought I’d throw a lot of odds and ends together into a wine blogging post. I love to drink sparkling wine around Christmas and there are some really good cheap Spanish ones out there now. The Gran Sarao Brut Rosé Cava Penedes can be [...]
December 22, 2010
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 62 Comments
Posted in: wine blogging
People living in competition
There’s an interesting debate going on at my favorite wine blog, New York Cork Report, over the value of wine competitions. These are the things that where all those wines are always winning golds and double golds, and silvers, and best in class and so on. The editors of NYCR are saying that they think [...]
September 12, 2010
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 44 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, wine blogging
Treacle
Although I don’t normally like this style of drink, I have to say that this is a top notch concoction. Got any good drink recipes? Treacle Makes 1 drink Adapted from a recipe by Dick Bradsell, El Camino, London. 2 ounces dark rum 1/2 ounce simple syrup 2 dashes Angostura bitters 1/2 ounce apple juice [...]
August 21, 2010
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 139 Comments
Posted in: wine blogging
The most fragrant Democrat
I gave money to Bill Halter and hoped he would win, but I’m not a huge Blance Lincoln hater. That said, what the fuck is this? The Arkansas senator may be unlikely to win reelection come November, but her elegant, defiant stand against the union juggernaut in the primary has made her the thinking conservative’s [...]
June 16, 2010
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 127 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley, wine blogging
Name that wine
Yesterday, I visited the Hearts and Hands winery on Lake Cayuga, not too far from where I live (as you might have guessed, my recent Galtitude was not unrelated to drinking). I’d been once before but just for the regular tasting. This time we did the full barrel tasting tour, which involved speaking with the [...]
June 4, 2010
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 63 Comments
Posted in: wine blogging
Hello, Hangover Victims
Here’s some interesting profiling. Razib Khan at Discovery took a look at some data in a study on drinkers, and found this relationship between the percentage who drink and their score on a vocabulary test. As Dr Johnson said, “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”.
May 4, 2010
· mistermix · 30 Comments
Posted in: Beer Blogging, wine blogging
Oh, the Humanity
I’m not sure if it is possible to take your own life by repeatedly slamming your testicles in a closing car door, but I would rather die that way by my own hand than spend one minute watching Matt Welch and Ann Althouse on Bloggingheads TV. What sadist thought up that nastiness? Seriously. Why?
March 29, 2010
· John Cole · 35 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Going Galt, wine blogging, WTF?
