Tasting sized pours — tasting edition
Until my post in the next couple of days about gift wines, here are a couple wine pick articles that should tide you over:
* NPR: Holiday wine. Bryan Miller offers some solid, general suggestions. No audio. But you can listen here to the hilarious Amy Sedaris taking a literary drinking quiz! No wait, take my pop-culture wine quiz!
* WSJ: The inveterate John & Dottie present a case for under $150–now that’s my kind of thinking! (See my case of fall wine picks or last year’s wintry case) Unfortunately their picks are not available online, only in the dead-tree edition or behind a pay barrier, but I do recommend the general idea of giving a well-chosen mixed case as a way to give a gift that makes an impact–and not just on the carpet where it lands.
Also, taste some wines free of charge tonight at Astor Wine & Spirit: “small grower champagnes,” their “French favorites,” and some of that throat-warming fire water, cognac, including some XO Tesseron from the 20s, 50s, 70s, and 90s! All free, the first two with discounts for wine purchased. 6-8 PM today. I’m just sorry I can’t make it. Map it.
tags: wine | wine | new york city
