The holidays are good for many things: giving thanks for life's plentiful gifts, celebrating together with close family and friends and opening a bottle — or seven — of quality wine. And while we can certainly appreciate the importance of the first two, we can most definitely lend a helping hand with the third. We've…
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If you've heard about a new wine device lately, the Coravin, it was probably because of a recent full recall of the devices issued by the government’s Consumer Product Safety Commission. There had been indications for months that something was up. In February, a letter was sent out to all Coravin owners (including myself) warning…
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The only thing that could possibly make a great bottle of wine better (besides excellent company) is design factor — something that shows the winemaker really cares about the craft...or that a designer really cares about wine. Check out these stories from the intersection of wine and design sure to give you a few ideas…
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Could 200 year-old bottles of alcohol be buried underneath your neighborhood sidewalk? That was the case in Manhattan’s Financial District last week, where DNAinfo reports that construction workers dug out a trove of liquor bottles more than two centuries old from a 15-foot stretch of Fulton Street at the corner of Titanic Park and Water…
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Greg Lambrecht faced a problem that will be familiar to wine-obsessed guys whose partner suddenly stops drinking. In his case, his wife was pregnant, and when she made the responsible choice to lay off the booze, Lambrecht didn't want to start wasting his best wine, opening it and having a glass, potentially wasting what was…
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No matter how many times that you hear Champagne isn’t just for special occasions, most of us don’t get around to buying it until we have something to toast—be it the New Year, an anniversary or some other momentous occasion. Why? Well, for starters, it ain’t cheap. (Though, it certainly can be). Also, all that…
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Last night, at Le Comptoir, a bistro in Williamsburg, I was treated to a jeroboam of Château d’Esclans “Whispering Angel” rosé from the Côtes de Provence. Naturally, I was sharing it with a rather large group of people: The jeroboam holds 4.5 liters, or six bottles, of wine. Most of us buy wine in 750-ml…
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