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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
Touring the Future of Virginia's Wine Industrynew
The Washington Wine Academy and Reston Limousine have started bringing groups from D.C. to Charlottesville to tour wine country, and intrigued by reports of Long Island wine tours gone mad, and by a recent article claiming that "Virginia wine success will come from tourism," I decided to get on the bus and see for myself what this approaching success will look like.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
04-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
UVA Dining Hall Adds Local, Organic Food to the Mixnew
Serena Weaver interned this semester for UVA dining supplier Aramark, helping the company include more local and organic fare at the University.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jayson Whitehead |
04-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Eco-Friendly Ways of Virginia's DelFosse Vineyardsnew
It has long been gospel that Virginia wines will never be organic; the sheer number of bugs and mildews pretty much necessitate spraying. But organic is sooo hippy dippy 1990s anyway; sustainability is what's hot.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
04-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
Marrying the Wild and the High-Tech at Acorn Hill Winerynew
Making wine is incredibly scientific and complicated, yet its marketing still emphasizes the pastoral. The truth is that today's winemakers might just as easily wear lab coats as Carhartts.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
04-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Wishing Happy Birthday to Our Founding Foodienew
Reading John Hailman's 2006 book, Thomas Jefferson on Wine, I learned that we owe our third President for much more than a great university and a few important documents.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
04-09-2008 |
Food+Drink
Your Dinner Starts Nownew
Local food is sprouting, and spring's the time to buy in.
C-Ville Weekly |
Cathy Clary |
04-02-2008 |
Food+Drink
Want to Learn About Wine? Read the Labelnew
Ninety percent of what you need to know about wine can be found on the bottle, and that knowledge can be winnowed down to four facts: the winery, the grapes, the vintage and the region. Or who, what, when and where. If you have to add why to that list, then there's just no helping you.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
03-05-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine
Why is Virginia Wine Interesting?new
Because it's a work in progress.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
02-27-2008 |
Food+Drink
