WinebyCai | September 30, 2010
Wine Fashion Week New York City The beginning of September heralds the wine trade’s New York fashion show. Most of the major importers and distributors in the State show off their wares at various salubrious institutions around the city. Sadly, unlike the real Fashion Week, the wine trade is completely disorganized and so on any [...]
WinebyCai | September 28, 2010
Longboard Tsunami It’s not often that we blow our own trumpet or dance to the tune of the Pied Piper so bear with me this one time. Three years ago we had the opportunity to taste a terrific line-up of wines from California. They were bursting with energy and passion and we loved the taste [...]
WinebyCai | September 28, 2010
Wine Club ~ October Wine of the Month Club To access the PDF file for the October Wine of the Month Club please click on the link below: WOM-Oct Body Double
WinebyCai | September 28, 2010
Wine Club ~ September Wine of the Month Club To access the PDF file for the September Wine of the Month Club please click on the link below: WOM-Sep-Valle d’Aosta
WinebyCai | September 24, 2010
Super, Super-Tuscan Wines This past summer I had the opportunity to travel to Tuscany and to stay at some of the most important wineries both in the ‘Chiantiville’ area and in Bolgheri. One of my rest stops landed me at Azienda Agricola Lanciola, a Chianti producer whose wines we have highlighted at Wine at Five [...]
WinebyCai | September 16, 2010
Today’s Taste .:Delanger~Pieri~Produttori di Carema Thursday is always fun. Distributors from all over the State come in and try to get us to like their offerings in the hope that we will buy their juice for the weekend. Sometimes the Chinese take out is better, sometimes not. On offer today were some really good wines and [...]
WinebyCai | September 9, 2010
Life is good. The rug rats have gone back to their playpens; the older adolescents have re-crossed state lines and are happily studying hard, such important subjects as how to split the social acne with Facebook and how to market a mocking bird’s tweet via Twitter. Life is good. All over America moms are replacing their [...]
WinebyCai | September 8, 2010
Am I mentioned in the latest scribbling of The Weekly Re’Wine’der I had an opportunity to taste the terrific wines from the Sleight of Hand winery. There’s not much point me adding tasting notes to all the wines since we won’t be getting them – the production for these wines is tiny and our allocation, though [...]
WinebyCai | September 3, 2010
A bevy of new wines has just arrived in the store for the Labor Day Weekend: Domaine Berthet-Bondet Cotes du Jura. French. White wine. $28.00 In 1985, Chantal and Jean Berthet-Bondet took over a domain that had not been producing wine for 50 years and brought it back to life. The domain spreads on 10 [...]
WinebyCai | September 2, 2010
We Have Lift-Off Its only been 4 1/2 years since we opened Wine at Five so the fact that my web site has only just been launched isn’t too bad! It’s still a work in progress, and I suspect that it always will be, but having read and digested WordPress for Dummies I just felt [...]