Wines
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Chilly White Wine for Chilly Temps
Baby, it’s cold outside! When the mercury starts to dip, we are naturally more inclined to heartier, warming reds. You know: chewy Malbecs, bone-warming Cabs, spicy Tempranillos. But what if you prefer white wine? Vino blanco gets a bad rap during winter months. “It’s for spring,” you say? Bah! Sipping chilled white (especially from a traditionally cooler-climate country like Germany,…
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A Blast From My Wine-selling Past
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIMrw2nJ3mg Look at the baby me sell wine! Or at least try to cover some ground when someone more qualified than myself didn’t show up for the video. ANYWAY, I’m clearly nowhere near the wine education I’m at now, but hell, I think I did a good job… Tell me things! Throw stones! Point fingers…
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Apparently, Hipster Wine Exists
Lettie Teague of the Wall Street Journal wrote this article about Brooklyn’s “hipster” wine list, and while on the whole it was inoffensive, it got my blood boiling. Why? Because I’m so tired of hipster-trend pieces. ICYMI, it is now 2013. The wine world–just like every other industry, subculture and subset–is nothing if not a…
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Keepin’ It Real Simple: My Visual New Years Resolution
Taking a page from one of my favorite wine bloggers out there, I’ve decided to compile a few things that have inspired me of late. Sure I’ve Instagram’d these, or have them sitting on my phone, but just because I’ve snapped the shot doesn’t mean it needs to be forgotten. The only real resolution I…
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On Being a Wine Snob
It happened. Somewhere between helping a customer decide between a mind-blowing Sancerre and a staggering Roero Arneis, they looked at me and uttered the words. “You’re a big ol’ wine snob, aren’t you?” I took pause. Am I?
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Balkan Wine Project #WineWednesday
How many of you can say you’ve enjoyed wines from Serbia or Macedonia? Compared to major international wine players like France, Italy and California, the Balkans get short shrift as far as the wine discussion goes.
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I Want You So Bad
The hardest thing about working in a wine shop is the fight with the Tasmanian devil of craving. I’m by no means an alcoholic (lest my incessant Instagram posts have you believe otherwise) but so many fun, geeky wines come through the shop that it’s all I can do to not grab a bottle, make…
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Wine and Me: Contextualizing My Enjoyment
As I find myself falling more deeply in love with wine—its pleasures, its history, its nuance and subtleties—I also find myself more reflective of how I am where I am now. I was never a huge wine drinker before, and even food was a passing interest, nothing more than the food I shoved down my…
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No Trick: Ghoulishly Tasty Reds for Halloween
All Hallows Eve is a night of mystery and disguise, tricks and treats, frights and fetes. To get in a ghastly good mood, fill your glass and channel Bela Lugosi with some bloody delicious reds. Whether you’re joining in the revelry or avoiding the things that go bump in the night, these treats are far…
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#WineWednesday: Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
Fall is kicking into high gear, which means “so long” to the quaffable, light whites you enjoyed in the summer and “hello” to the comforting, warm reds you reach for on those rainy autumn nights. From what I can tell during my days at the shop, many of you are already trading lighter meals…
Joseph Hernandez 