Drink wine free, have books read to you: NYC
The best way to get a wine edu-ma-cation is to taste. The more you taste, the more you learn what you like and don’t like. And oh yeah, then you can one-up your friends with all those crazy wine descriptors, such as “the inside of a walnut shell.”
Appellation Wines has upgraded their free tastings and now will have regular free tastings 5-8 on Tuesdays. They encourage you to make it your new happy hour.
Many other NYC shops have regular free tastings including my faves, Astor, Crush, Moore Brothers and more. Check my NYC wine shop map for details.
And as if drinking free wine wasn’t enough, you can now have wine books read to you–by the authors themselves!
Bottlerocket Wines continues their excellent “eclectic salon” series of meet the author events. Some upcoming dates of note for these free events:
Jancis Robinson, Oxford Companion to Wine, 3rd edition, Monday, October 23, 6 – 8 pm
Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page, What to Drink with What You Eat, Wed., October 25, 6 – 8 pm
Jay McInerney, Hedonist in the Cellar, Monday, Nov. 6, 6 – 8 pm
Well, there may not be much reading–but there will no doubt be much schmoozing (and boozing?).
Shop info can be found here
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