Wine at Five

Bottles and Bottles of Wine and all my life to drink them

10 Things to do on a Snow Day ~ With a Bottle of Wine

| January 22, 2011

Summer here yet? Maybe if we all join together and drink some rosé tonight tomorrow morning it will be 75F and the snow will be a bed of white daffodils! Any chance? What do you when schools are cancelled, you’re snowed in, the freezer is depleted and you are so bored that selling the kids [...]

Bring Out Your Jam – Bordeaux 1980-1989

| January 17, 2011

On January 31st we will hold the inaugural dinner for wine enthusiasts who want to share a bottle of their wine with like-minded enthusiasts all willing to bring one of their great wines to the dinner. This dinner is not a sales promotion – we have negotiated with the owners of Morgan’s Restaurant to charge [...]

Fonroque 2005 Inventory Status

| January 15, 2011

As of Saturday Monday morning we have 18 5 cases remaining of the Chateau Fonroque 2005 Bordeaux – $432 per case – normal wholesale price, $560, typical retail price $840. If you want it call or e-mail today. Stock will be delivered on Tuesday – possibly Wednesday if the Unions take Martin Luther King Day off! [...]

The Weekly Re’Wine’der – January 13

| January 13, 2011

Bring out your Jam; Wine at Cost; New Wines Snow glorious snow…we got our fair share of it yesterday. It took over three hours to plow my way out by which time I figured I wouldn’t be much use to anyone down in Rye so I hunkered down with some juice. IMHO this Shebang jug [...]

It’s A New Dawn – It’s A New Day

| January 6, 2011

That song by Nina Simone always sends shivers down my spine – good ones – it just makes me feel like we can do anything ~ let’s hope in 2011 we can. We are going to start the year here at Wine at Five with a bunch of fresh ideas. One that I have been [...]