By Greg B. For special occasions, it has become a tradition to pop open a bottle of ‘bubbly’.  Whether you prefer to pop the cork gently and controlled, or to saber the top of the …

Part II of my Spring Wine Guide (Read Part I here): The chill of winter is ready to be packed away with your snow pants and wool sweaters in exchange for bathing suits and tank …

Good company is the best pairing with any wine. This past Saturday, I enjoyed what is becoming a classic pairing: wine and the MD Cru. MD Cru refers to a small group of …

Today is another Wine Blogging Wednesday! This month our host is Joel at WineLifeToday. The theme is something dear to all of us wine lovers, comfort wines. Our mission:
“choose a …

Here’s an easy recipe I came up with last week that went great with a bottle of Champagne, bread and cheese for a first course.
Saffron Poached Shrimp
Ingredients

6-8 extra-large jumbo shrimp, split and deveined (shell on)
1 …

On Sunday February 24, 2008 the MD-Cru (previous events: Big Wines, Chateauneuf du Pape) met up for it’s monthly gathering of friends, new and old, to talk wine, catch up on politics, and drink a …

Here are tasting notes on three Champane’s we had recently:
The good (the Huskies approve as well!):
1998 Duval-Leroy Champagne Blanc de Chardonnay Brut – $42: Light pale in color with a lot of tiny bubbles …

You all know how much I love Cava…here’s an excellent QPR (quality-to-price-ratio) sparkling from Spain (all Cava is from Catalina , Spain) Hazelnut, dough/yeast, grapefruit on the nose. Crisp acidity that becomes quite …

I received this bottle as a sample and took these notes during a recent wine tasting:
The bottle had a unique closure for a wine – an actual bottle cap, reminiscent of a large glass bottle …

This month The Wine Spectator released it’s top 100 wines of the year. Without getting into what I thought of their selections, and with 2008 a few days away, I thought I’d recap my …