WinebyCai | March 24, 2011
Where have the last five years gone? Click your fingers. Gone. March 21, 2006 Wine at Five opened its doors. Five years later we are, remarkably, still here. We are like this year’s winter. Sadly the last five years seem to have gone by much quicker than this winter. When is this white stuff going to [...]
WinebyCai | March 18, 2011
I was looking back at my notes from last year’s wine tasting and somehow I must have counted incorrectly because we called last year’s event the “5th”. Actually this year is – we opened on March 21, 2006 and did a whopping $56.00 on our first day! So if I count correctly this time, 2011 [...]
WinebyCai | March 16, 2011
Each year we try and find a wine that woos us, preferably wows us, but positively is us. Two years ago we bought the remaining stock of a little New Zealand winery, Gravitas. It was not a happy story but we did what we could to help out the young couple that tragically owned the [...]
WinebyCai | March 15, 2011
One of the most exciting wines that we were fortunate to try toward the end of last year were the wines from Broc Cellars. Until late last year the wines were not imported into the State of New York but through the endeavors of an Upstate distributor, Encore Wines, we were able to try [...]
WinebyCai | March 11, 2011
Let’s start with a thank you – you don’t often see that in e-mails any more. But I just wanted to thank everyone that came to the Rhone dinner last Wednesday night. Thank you for your interest in Cecile Dusserre and in her wines – I thought they were delicious – personally. It was a [...]
WinebyCai | March 3, 2011
I know – too many e-mails. This is getting like the ones that come across your desk in big black letters with highlights in big red letters – 20 a day! My apologies. On the other hand I have to admit that on the days when I don’t send out the Re’wine’der, or, like today, [...]