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• Dining at Mirage Las Vegas

  
  Las Vegas Logue — Authority: 125
  Ever since the resort opened, the restaurants at Mirage Las Vegas set the standard high for the entire city. There are fine dining options, casual restaurants, as well as bars and lounges to try. What ever you choose, you will be pleased. And check this out: some restaurants offer the $39.99 Prix Fixe Gourmet Tasting ...
  18 hours ago

• Second Annual Beer At Joe’s Holiday Party

  
  Beer at Joe's — Authority: 116
  What are the secrets to a great holiday party? A great group of friends is probably the most important. After that - a good spot can make or break a good time. And then there are the drinks. You don’t have to have amazing beer to have a good time, but it surly helps! The Beer At Joe’s Holiday party was at La ...
  2 days ago

• Harrods Offering Free Wine Tastings

  
  The Wine Blokes — Authority: 99
  If you happen to be passing through Knightsbridge, London, during the next week, you may get a very nice surprise upon inspecting the Harrods Wine Store – they are giving free wine tastings throughout the Christmas season! Go on more than one occasion and you will find a new spirit or wine on offer. Here’s [...]
  3 days ago

• EaterTastings: The Market Coming to Santa Monica, Tar Pit Debuts, Bar Bouchon Opens Below Restaurant

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 614
  The latest dish from Eater LA , Curbeds hedonistic eating and drinking blog... SANTA MONICA: Will the newly remodeled Santa Monica Place be LAs version of SFs Ferry Building? Well find out next summer, when The Market (pictured) debuts , featuring "independently-owned purveyors" selling gourmet cheeses, ...
  4 days ago

• Eater Tastings: Table 8s Exit, Pricing Night Life Real Estate on 21st Street, More!

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 685
  This weeks top dish from Eater , Curbeds restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... [EVill newbie Barrel Bar Cafe ] 1) East Village: A rumor confirmed: chef Govind Armstrong is pulling out of the Table 8 restaurant at the Cooper Square Hotel , and hell be taking the restaurants name with him. An announcement ...
  4 days ago

• Writer Russ Kane of VintageTexas under Contract with Texas Tech University Press

  
  VintageTexas — Authority: 120
  Writer Russ Kane of VintageTexas under Contract with Texas Tech University Press Contributions and experiences sought that highlight the Texas new wine country scene and its historyNEWS RELEASE: December 18, 2009 - Writer, blogger and wine aficionado, Russ Kane of Vintage Texas announced this week that he was now ...
  4 days ago

• Really nice Cali pinot noir from Windy Oaks

  
  levage — Authority: 119
  Last year around this time, I was sort of gifted a bottle of 2005 Windy Oaks Pinot Noir Estate from the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Gifted in that a generous guy from the wine boards brought this and another wine to dinner, thinking wed open this one and I could have the other for another time. Before I knew ...
  4 days ago

• Blind Tasting 15 Champagnes

  
  Brooklynguy's Wine and Food Blog — Authority: 116
  Alex Halberstadt , a Brooklyn-based writer who covers wine for The Faster Times, an online newspaper, recently invited me to his house to participate in a blind tasting of Champagne. There were 9 of us in total, and 15 wines. Not bad for a random Monday night. The point of tasting blind is to remove information that ...
  5 days ago

• Virginia Farm Bureau’s “Save Our Food Holiday Festival” is Overwhelming Success

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 136
  Chef Jim Coleman in action In an effort to create awareness about the importance of locally grown food, the Virginia Farm Bureau developed the Save Our Food campaign, which brings attention to the state’s first and largest industry – farming.  So this weekend, the Farm Bureau sponsored the first annual ...
  5 days ago

• Ontario winefest earlybird tickets on sale

  
  Dowd on Drinks — Authority: 122
  Good winemaking doesn’t stop at the Canadian border.“Cuvee Weekend,” an annual gala celebration of Ontario province winemaking, will be held from Friday, February 19, through Sunday, February 21, beginning with the Cuvee Gala on opening day at the Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls, Ontario, with tastings ...
  6 days ago

• Today I pour our wines at the Eccellenza di Toscana tasting in Florence

  
  Montalcino Report — Authority: 114
  Today I pour our wines at the Eccellenza di Toscana tasting in Florence. The 2004 Brunello di Montalcino of Il Poggione was awarded the 5 "grappoli" award from the Duemilavini guide of Italian wine. There are hundreds of sommelliers, trade people and consumers gathered in Florence for this big tasting of Tuscan ...
  1 week ago

• Holiday tasting for Berlin wine shop startup

  
  Dowd on Drinks — Authority: 122
  Wine and chocolate often make a nice combination. Cheryl Thibodeau (right) will be presenting a range of wines as well as Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur samples at a holiday tasting scheduled for Saturday, December 19, at her Vonadeau Wine and Spirits shop in Berlin, Rensselaer County.Bill Blake, who poured samples at ...
  1 week ago

• Eater Tastings: Frank Lloyd Bites, St. Marks Place Conquered, More!

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 685
  This weeks top dish from Eater , Curbeds restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... 1) Upper East Side : A new restaurant has just opened in the Guggenheim Museum named, brace archinerds, The Wright . You have our permission to order the falling water. 2) East Village : Michael "Bao" Huynh cannot be stopped. ...
  1 week ago

• Appointment with Il Poggione Sunday in Florence, Eccellenza di Toscana

  
  Montalcino Report — Authority: 114
    Sunday I will be in Firenze at the Grand Hotel for the"Eccellenza di Toscana" event, hosted by the Tuscan section of theItalian Sommellier Association. The tasting is for the wine that obtained 4 or5 grape bunches into the Sommellier associations guide DUEMILAVINI. We will bepouring the Brunello di Montalcino ...
  1 week ago

• Holidays in a bottle: A gift guide (1)

  
  Dowd on Drinks — Authority: 122
  Unless you’ve been busy all year searching out and sampling different spirits with an eye toward which you’ll be giving friends and/or loved ones as holiday gifts, it probably is too late to do much research now.Luckily for you, I haven’t been shirking my duties.Beginning today, and running over several more ...
  1 week ago

• Aged Bordeaux Grand Crus: My Blind Tasting of the Year!

  
  blind tasting club — Authority: 117
  B lind Tastings are supposed to be the essence of this website and yet, it happens that none occurs for very long periods of time. Hence I felt somehow relieved when we finally found a date that worked for all of us and the topic was rather secondary at first. But then Oskar told me he wanted to make it a special ...
  1 week ago

• Taste Matters 2009

  
  Spotlight Toronto : Musings — Authority: 114
  When I go to a large scale wine tasting, I always apply the wise strategy I saw Jerry Seinfeld use when entering a party: “Survey first, camp here.” The novice wine drinker, overcome by close proximity to abundance of wine, makes the not unexpected error of soaking their palate at the nearest table of wine, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• In the Palmer our hands

  
  Bibendum — Authority: 115
  A few weeks ago a lucky few gathered in the historic, old  Sandeman Port cellar at The Don Restaurant in the City to taste some pretty amazing vintages of Chateau Palmer, including the rarer than hen’s teeth 1966. Kudos to Restaurant Manager Otto, Sommelier Sebastian and Chef Matt for putting on a brilliant show. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eater Tastings: Own A Piece of Tavern on the Green, Restaurants Prove Its Winter

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 685
  This weeks top dish from Eater , Curbeds restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... [Rats! Via Eater ] 1) UWS: All of the fixtures and artifacts from Tavern on the Green will go on the block in mid-January, should you be looking looking to decorate your dining room with Tavern on the Green chairs. For those ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2010 Tastings at Butlers Wine Cellar

  
  UKWinesOnline — Authority: 116
  February 10, 2010 7:30 pm March 5, 2010 7:30 pm March 24, 2010 7:30 pm Brighton’s Butlers Wine Cellar is planning ahead beyond Christmas for some interesting wine tastings in early 2010. On 10 February 2010 they are looking at Cabernet/Merlot Blends ( These two red varieties are often blended ...
  2 weeks ago

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