Wine Blogging Wednesday #49: The End Of An Era
D. Honig over at Two Days Per Bottle is the host of the latest Wine Blogging Wednesday installment, and it’s a provocative one: “a toast to the end of the Bush era.” Of course this must mean different things to different people, and we definitely have our feelings on all matters political.
However, given our tricky position of being both a wine blog and a wine shop, we think we’re going to sit this WBW out — we know our customers have varying political view points, and we wouldn’t want to make anybody uncomfortable in our virtual space in the case that their ideas don’t conform to ours.
So, please forgive our absence this round…but go over to Two Days Per Bottle where you’ll be able to read D. Honig’s entry and, eventually, his round-up of the dozens other bloggers writing on the theme.
To close, it does remain to be seen whether the Bush era is really over. Depending which way things go on November 4th, we’ll be opening a bottle of Godmé Blanc de Noirs Champagne to celebrate, or a bottle of Whisky to drown our sorrows. We’ll leave it to you to guess what outcome we’ll cheer and which will surely send us on a bender.
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10/30/2011: The Return of the Oyster Boys
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2010 Trajarinho Vinho Verde
October 6th, 2011 LA Times Wine of the Week! Click to buy for $10/bottle.
Carmela’s Tasting - Wine-Based Sorbets!
Taste two new flavors from Carmela’s Ice Cream, based on wine we stock on our shelves! Two sorbets as well as the wines that inspired them, a Cava and a Malbec blend, will be on display as part of this Sunday’s tasting. Click here for discounted advance purchase of tickets (just $6!).
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Frizzante
From Wikipedia: Frizzante is an Italian wine term term for semi-sparkling wine (as opposed to Spumante, which is generally used for fully sparkling wines). Frizzante wines generally owe their bubbles to a partial secondary fermentation in tank. You might notice a light fizz or tingly sensation on the tongue with a Frizzante wine, compared to the more carbonated sensation that more fully sparkling wines yield.
Scorekage
Okay, so we made up this word yesterday after a great restaurant experience. We brought a bottle of wine with us, expecting to pay a corkage fee. But the restaurant either forgot to charge us the $15, or decided to be nice to us. We scored! Hence, “scorekage” has entered our lexicon. This can also refer to BYO friendly restaurants that don’t charge for corkage under any circumstances.
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