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September 2009
Summer Into Fall
Fri, 09/25/2009 - 10:23am — The Wine Guy
We're into that long, satisfying season in downeast Carolina when cold fronts from the northwest try to push into our mass of humidity and mosquitoes. Some mornings I open the back porch door at dawn and smile at a delicious dry chill in the air. Other mornings I'm hit in the face with mugginess and the sound of cicadas cranking up the heat of the day. It's the time when we start thinking about getting in some dry kindling for that first night we want a fire in the stove. And we start thinking about wines that will go with the cooler weather and heartier foods of the
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Autumn Treats - Hard Cider and Festbier
Sat, 09/19/2009 - 2:10pm — The Wine Guy
The autumn of the year has its pleasures, even down here in coastal Carolina, where the summer seems to go on until Thanksgiving. During my childhood in northern Illinois and northern Ohio, autumn meant apples and apples meant cider.
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A Sheaf of Special Purchases
Mon, 09/14/2009 - 5:42pm — The Wine GuyFrom time to time our suppliers have inventory clearance sales. When they do, we pass the savings along to our customers. Herein a list of five new wines that I've gotten in to both stores and am offering at "Special Purchase Prices." These are great additions to our list...and great deals for our customers.
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What's goin' on?
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 9:48am — The Wine GuyI was shocked when I read the news. Gary Tomasulo slipped from the top of a building on Washington's Main Street to his death. He had recently bought the building and was doing what he loved to do...putter around fixing things, making plans, doing it himself. It was a dreary, rainy morning on Monday. They say he must have slipped on the wet fire escape. He was 62 years old. The same age as me.
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Cape Classics and Frenzy
Fri, 09/04/2009 - 6:38am — The Wine Guy
We were fortunate last week to have a visit from Zingo Munger, Southeastern Sales Manager for Cape Classics, an importer and distributor of fine South African wines. As Zingo poured samples for Mary and me at the Washington store, he regaled us with tales of the burgeoning South African wine industry. South Africa has a winemaking history dating back to the 16th Century, but in recent times it all fell apart as the world boycotted South African products over their apartheid policies.
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