AltWeeklies Wire
Behind the Scenes at Boyd Tinsley with Carly Gullicksonnew
Trying to rise in the ranks of worldwide tennis, dozens of professional athletes, including Carly Gullickson, descend on the Boyd Tinsley USTA Women's Pro Championship.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
05-06-2009 |
Sports
Hitchhiker's Guide to Wine: Georgia and Hungarynew
Sometimes hitchhikers have to stand in the rain for a while. Not every ride you catch takes you exactly where you wanted to go. But that's no reason to quit. Remember the hitchhiker's motto: travel to strange places, meet interesting wines, and drink them.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
03-25-2009 |
Food+Drink
Precision Dance In the Age of Obamanew
Ten step teams converged to compete for $1,500 in total prize money, with proceeds going towards a local scholarship fund. The evening was billed as a celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama, and our new President’s name was emblazoned on everything from pins to scarves.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
01-28-2009 |
Performance
Is Nonalcoholic Wine For Real?new
The problem with wine is that if you heat it to remove the alcohol, you end up damaging all of the stuff that isn't alcohol, precisely the stuff you want to keep.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
01-14-2009 |
Food+Drink
Sour Grapes: If Anyone Orders Norton, I'm Leavingnew
Norton tastes terrible. There's just no way around it. I've had countless versions, from many of the 21 wineries in the state that offer Norton, and I just can't understand the appeal.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
01-07-2009 |
Food+Drink
Does Paying $20 for a Bottle of Wine Make Sense in Today's Economy?new
Virginia wine has a lot going for it. Still, for some people, it can't compete with lower-priced wine from places like Chile, Argentina and especially Australia.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
11-19-2008 |
Food+Drink
Can We Look into Wine's Future?new
Despite grueling conditions, barrel tasting is a time-honored way for wine critics and winemakers to get some idea how the coming vintage will measure up.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
11-12-2008 |
Food+Drink
Talking About Talking About Winenew
Many of us misunderstand the nature of wine language. You see, wine language is poetic -- a way of describing not what a wine objectively tastes like, but what it was like for the writer to taste the wine. Good wine writing presents an experience, not an analysis.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
11-05-2008 |
Food+Drink
Product Testing Wine Glassesnew
I know that wine won't taste any better out of glasses made of solidified orphan tears than it will from a coffee cup. But that doesn't stop me from having 38 wine glasses. I enjoy the ceremony.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
10-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
Taking Apart Some Common Wine Mythsnew
In my continuing quest to help my readers become obnoxious wine know-it-alls, thereby hastening my own obsolescence, I hereby present some common vinous misconceptions.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
09-10-2008 |
Food+Drink
Product Testing Wine Tools: The Vinturi Wine Aeratornew
This groovy little wine toy is a clear plastic device that looks like some kind of space-age crack pipe and promises "all the taste with none of the wait" (which is pretty much the raison d'etre of crack).
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
08-20-2008 |
Food+Drink
Why You're a Moron if You Don't Like Rosésnew
There is a certain type of wine drinker who thinks of himself (it is often, but not always, a man) as being above drinking pink wine. When offered a rosé, he makes a pained look and says, "I'm not really into rosés," and what he means is, "I know a little something about wine, you see, and I know that white, sweet, and above all pink wines are not real wines. And I drink real wines."
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
07-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
The 'First Lady of Virginia Wine' Talks About Closing Her Winerynew
Felicia Warburg Rogan, founder of Oakencroft Vineyard and Winery, is one of a handful of people who can rightfully be said to have helped create the Virginia Wine industry. But now, after 25 years, Oakencroft is shutting its doors on December 31.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
06-11-2008 |
Food+Drink
Why Don't You Know What's in Your Wine?new
We want to believe wine is nothing but grapes and sunshine. The grapes are picked, crushed, aged and poured. This idea abides in advertising and drips from the lips of every winemaker and winery owner. Nine times out of 10, however, it's far from the truth.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
05-28-2008 |
Food+Drink
Winemakers Deal with the Rising Cost of Barrelsnew
To get the kind of taste that sells, you need oak. But brand new French oak barrels, the ne plus ultra of wine containers, are very expensive, and with the dollar falling steadily against the Euro, they've only gotten more so.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
05-14-2008 |
Food+Drink
