Corkbin: First Look at the Android Release
I recently announced the imminent arrival of a couple new wine apps on the Android Market. Since then, I’ve had about a week to play around with the beta release of Corkbin, and I’m impressed. Take a picture of a wine, and if you want, jot down a note. Over-share to Twitter and Facebook, too....
How to Make Love to Your Wine
or, A Wino’s Sex-Ed. but also known as, A Quasi-Pornographic Musing on the Tasting of Wine by Sam Klingberg My friends consider me somewhat insane, if not entirely. I devote ridiculous amounts of time to wine, especially tasting it. It could be alcoholism thinly veiled behind the guise of sophisticated devotion, as a friend once...
It’s the End of Beer As We Know It
Stories of the great Space Race, although vivid and full of American imperial hubris, have always been little more than fuzzy black and white pictures removed from any sense of reality in my mind. I’m too young, too millennial. But as a few adventurous breweries around the globe produce increasingly fortified beer—perhaps a misnomer as...
#PinotNoir Twitter Tasting Smackdown
So I’m a loser who uses Twitter, a lot. And tonight I joined about 450 other people in an online tasting of Pinot Noir. And, I quote: It was difficult to keep up with, and this is a technical term, a shit ton of people at once while trying to actually taste a few different...
“Powerful Elegance” – The Wines of Ribera Del Duero
A few weeks ago, I was able to spend some time hanging out on the 33rd floor of the W Lakeshore tasting wines from Ribera del Duero with April Cullom and the Drink Ribera team. We started off with a presentation about Ribera and a special tasting of two wines from Vega Sicilia, one of...
The Gaucho, Ryan O’Connor
Wine has a rabidly devoted, dare I say, Jonas Brothers quality to its fanbase. I suppose in part because of the mystique and romance in the ritual that takes place between the first shoot and first sip, and in part because people are just passionately insistent on getting drunk. Recently I met up at Intelligentsia...
