Steampunk wine opener, man’s cave, stars, wine bars – sipped & spit
SPIT: Metrokane’s The Rabbit
Install a machine such as in the above video and you will really one-up your neighbors in the corkscrew department.
SIPPED: reading
What? That LA Times is dropping stars for restaurant reviews? I’m 99+ points on that. [LAT]
NO LONGER SIPPING: wine bars
Lou on Vine, the LA wine bar and purveyor of “delightfully armpitty” wines, is closing after six years [LAT]. In Harlem, Nectar wine bar has closed. [Daily News]
SPIT: a man’s cave
Henry Tang, a candidate to be wine-drenched Hong Kong’s next chief executive, may have seen his hopes hoisted on his (illegal) wine cellar. [BBC]
CHOMPED: meat dress? “My favorite way to catch up with friends is to have wine and food nights. We cook together and drink six or seven bottles of red wine.” -Lady Gaga [Drinksbusiness]
PARKENTSTEIN: “I only awarded 19 perfect 100 point wines in THE GREATEST VINTAGE EVER! This is remarkable restraint on my part.” [hosemaster]
TASTEVIN: “A 100-point score for a young wine is just a cry for attention.” -Stephen Tanzer
On March 15th, 2012 at 12:41 am ,Kris Chislett wrote:
My favorite comment on that video: “This is basically how the government would pour a glass of wine.” 🙂
On March 15th, 2012 at 3:24 pm ,RobinC wrote:
A plethora of juicy topics in the wine world. Don’t forget about Rudy K. I want to know his entire background from birth to imprisonment.
On March 16th, 2012 at 5:53 am ,Bethann Vanhoy wrote:
Some of them have the disable option but Google+ doesn’t on mine. That’s the one I hate the most. I’m so sick of Google shoving it everyone’s faces on everything.