Wine by the glass at HP Whole Foods
comments ()Now you can get wine by the glass at the Highland Park location at Lemmon and Lomo Alto. Whole Foods will pouring its top 10 selling wines to sip in the cafe. If you’d just like to taste,...
View ArticleLaroche Chablis: a little summer chardonnay at Cafe Pacific
comments ()If you like the idea of a lean, sleek chardonnay for summer, make the leap to the Old World with Laroche Chablis AOC, Domaine Laroche’s entry-level Chablis. Laroche’s perky export manager...
View ArticleMeet Brandan Kelley, Charlie Palmer’s new wine guy
comments ()One of the smartest things Drew Hendricks did at Charlie Palmer before grabbing another gold ring of opportunity with Pappas Bros. corporate was hire Brandan Kelley. For nearly five years,...
View Article‘Bottle Shock’: a valentine to Napa
comments ()Few wine lovers do not know the story of The Judgment of Paris, the day in 1976 when California trumped the French in a blind wine-tasting. The nine judges were the cream of French...
View ArticlePappas simplifies wine with ‘Sommelier Selections’
comments ()Pappas Bros. Steakhouse can be a little overwhelming when it comes to the 86-page wine list. To make it easier for those disinclined to navigate all its pages, wine director and master...
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‘Bottle Shock,’ Angelika’s wine & popcorn
comments () Wine columnist Rebecca Murphy gives this report on Bottle Shock: I went to see Bottle Shock last night at Angelika. It’s about the 1976 blind tasting of California and French wines...
View ArticleStoney’s returns to wine-bargain roots
comments ()In 1998, when Stone Savage situated his wine shop in the unlikely location at the crook of Harry Hines downtown where it angles into Akard, his motto was “100 wines for under $12 in 300...
View ArticleRestaurant squeeze means wine bargains at Sigel’s
comments ()For those of you who don’t understand how Texas’ liquor laws work (this includes most of us), just trust me when I say, in simplest terms, restaurants in so-called dry areas must buy their...
View ArticleRestaurant squeeze and wine bargains at Sigel’s: Part 2
comments ()Jasper Russo just sent me an updated list of additional wines that will be available for fire-sale prices at the Addison Sigel’s. Several mentioned in the previous post have already sold...
View ArticleYet more bargain wines at Addison
comments ()Jasper Russo, director of wine marketing at Sigel’s, sends along yet more restaurant-wines-not-picked-up that are going on the shelves at the Addison Sigel’s for fire-sale prices. These are...
View ArticleSigel’s fire-sale wines reach two-buck chuck price
comments ()Sigel’s director of wine marketing Jasper Russo again sends a new list of restaurant wines that were not picked up and so are being deeply discounted at the Addison Sigel’s (Inwood at Belt...
View ArticleSigel’s restaurant inventory sale continues
comments ()Sigel’s is adding another batch of wines that will be available for sale today starting at noon. For Yellowtail fans, the shiraz-grenache blend will be $2.99. Cono Sur Cabernet Vision is on...
View ArticleMaster of Wine leads Dali wine tasting
comments ()Master Sommeliers and Masters of Wine are rare birds, numbering ia few hundred worldwide because the requirements for these credentials are so exacting (as we just saw this past weekend at...
View ArticleVignon makes Caesar salad wine-friendly
comments ()Pairing food and wine has been very much on my mind the past few days as I tasted through close to 75 wines (with lectures) at the Texas Sommelier Conference in Austin. I’m also wrapping up...
View ArticleMore fire-sale wines at Sigel’s
comments ()By now you know they’re actually wines that restaurants ordered and didn’t pick up that Sigel’s in Addison wants to move on out. We’ve got a few spirits this time and half-bottles (including...
View ArticleJimmy’s adds a Tuscan tasting
comments ()Paul DiCarlo over at Jimmy’s Food Store has added a last-minute Tuscan wine-tasting to the schedule. On Sept. 5, he’ll host Stephane Schaeffer, managing director of Argiano Wines. The...
View ArticleGreen Paul Dolan wines at P.F. Chang’s
comments ()Think treeless paper labels (bamboo). Soy ink. A winery powered by solar and wind (the first carbon-neutral winery in the U.S.). Biodynamic grape-growing. It doesn’t get much greener than...
View ArticleSpotting the new Spottswoode releases
comments ()Napa Valley’s Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery in St. Helena was green before green was in, getting its vineyards certified organic in 1990. It was also a wine estate long before the...
View ArticleJeff Bundschu teams with Bijoux for wine dinner
comments ()One of the founding Wine Brats, Jeff Bundschu is president of Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma, Calif., and the younger half of the father-son team that make this estate and winery hum....
View ArticleMany Dallas restaurants will GO TEXAN on Wednesday with special food and wine...
comments ()Don’t forget the GO TEXAN Restaurant Roundup, a special dine-out event being organized for this Wednesday, Oct. 1, by the Texas Department of Agriculture. The meals focus specifically on...
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