You will OBEY!
friday Wine Pick This is a wine any one can get behind. Made by a woman who ran screaming from IBM in Milan (you can’t keep me in this windowless room!) and who has her pilots license (hi-ya!) Azienda Agricola Martilde Pinot Nero “Nina” 2005 exudes everything she does – it’s bright, yet firm and [...]
Friday Wine Pick
This week’s Friday Wine Pick is the definition of esoteric. It is 100% Tannat, a grape native to the western Basque-influenced regions of France and most notably Madiran. Here the wines produced from the grape are high in tannins, rich in raspberry fruit and deep in color. More recently the grape has been claimed as [...]
Friday Wine Pick
Among the rolling hills of sheep farms and ambling fruit orchards exists one of the United States’ smallest wine growing appellations, the Yorkville Highlands and the home of this week’s Wine Pick, the 2007 Yorkville Cellars Hi-Rollr Red. No, that is not a typo – the wine’s name is in fact Hi-Rollr. It comes from [...]
Friday Wine Pick
Friday Wine Pick I’m still thinking Spain. Bear with me, I’ll get to the several hundred or so other wine regions soon enough. Six months ago I had the pleasure of starting my day with a visit from the renowned Spanish Importer, Jorge Ordonez. Credited with introducing Spanish wine to the United States the name [...]
Friday Wine Pick
As the first days of the new year roll by, how many of you are vowing to go to the gym once a week, to start running again – or for the first time a blasphemous decision – drinking less? Drinking less? Did you really resolve to do that? I didn’t hear it. But if [...]
ORGANIC SICILIAN OLIVE OIL *tasting … 3 WAYS* At central bottle
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2010 . . . a FREE TASTING from 6 to 8PM. Join us and Sicilian Olive Oil producer Giuseppe Taibi as he orchestrates a tasting of his family’s beautiful CERTIFIED ORGANIC Olive Oil. We have been lucky enough to secure a quantity of his oil and bottle it under our own label [...]
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Guest Chef Tasting with Tony Maws this Tuesday, December 1st . . 6 to 8pm
Longtime friend and new neighbor, Tony Maws, chef/owner of Craigie on Main pays us a visit and brings with him his interpretation of Venetian CICCHETTI which we will pair with wines from Anjou, Roannaise and the Rhone from Oz Wine. This event promises to be funky and delicious . . 3 cicchetti ~ 3 wines [...]
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Central Bottle Upgrades Central Square’s Wine
Central Square will get its first high-end wine shop when Central Bottle Wine & Provisions opens in the old Necco factory this fall. Central Bottle, the brainchild of four Cantabrigian friends (including former East Coast Grill GM Maureen Rubino and The Blue Room owners Liz Vilardi and Nick Zappia), will offer organic and biodynamic wines, [...]
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