http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room Ray Isle's Wine Blog en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:23:45 -0500 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:29:15 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2010/1/7/THE-DRINK-SITUATION-ON-MTVS-JERSEY-SHORE-RON-RON-JUICE Normal 0 0 1 307 1754 amexpub 14 3 2154 10.265 0 0 0 Muscle-head Ronnie on MTV's Jersey Shore is the last guy I'd expect to see drinking a girly cocktail, but surprisingly, his pre-partying... News Recipes Spirits Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:29:15 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2010/1/7/THE-DRINK-SITUATION-ON-MTVS-JERSEY-SHORE-RON-RON-JUICE Alessandra Bulow http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/12/16/Wine-Deals-for-the-Holidays A good article by Patrick Comiskey about wine gifts in today's LA Times got me thinking about the fact that there are some remarkable deals out there right now, largely thanks to this year's economy. At the high end, I've seen recently th... News Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:53:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/12/16/Wine-Deals-for-the-Holidays Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/12/15/The-Next-Tasting-Room-You-Visit-Will-Be-Red In one of the stranger studies I've run across recently, UK's Daily Telegraph reports that German researchers have determined that people find wine to taste fruitier and sweeter in rooms lit with red light, as opposed to white or green light ... News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:54:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/12/15/The-Next-Tasting-Room-You-Visit-Will-Be-Red Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/12/11/Cool-Wine-Clips Recently I received some press info in the mail, as I do pretty much every day of the week, but in this unusual instance I found myself much more interested in the paperclip holding the information together than in the information itself. How ni... News Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:36:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/12/11/Cool-Wine-Clips Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/12/8/Weird-Web-Rumors-Vodka-in-Pill-Form A number of blogs have picked up on a Times of India story that recently ran (and was picked up here by HuffPo) about a Russian scientist who is credited with developing a powdered form of alcohol. Nifty! Fascinating! Sorta scary, too!Anyway, turns o... News Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:49:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/12/8/Weird-Web-Rumors-Vodka-in-Pill-Form Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/11/9/Bordeaux-Blowout-at-Hand Interesting article on Yahoo today (by way of AFP) about Diageo Chateau & Estates's apparent decision to get out of the Bordeaux market and what's likely to happen to Bordeaux prices as a result. Necessary reading, if you drink or collect... News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:47:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/11/9/Bordeaux-Blowout-at-Hand Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/27/Rocks-in-Your-Mouth A group of geologists in Oregon have a few skeptical things to say about the notion of "minerality" in wine, the Southern Oregon Mail Tribute reports. They've got a good point or two—that the amount of actual minerals in wine is b... News Tastings Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:14:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/27/Rocks-in-Your-Mouth Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/27/Black-Tea-Vodka When angry colonists threw tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, they had no idea that their rebellion would eventually lead to the American Revolutionary War in 1775, or that it would inspire the creation of another kind of beverage in 2009: Absolut Vodka... News Recipes Tastings Spirits Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:20:53 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/27/Black-Tea-Vodka Alessandra Bulow http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/21/Red-Wine--Fish-or-Why-I-Love-Science So it seems that researchers in Japan have determined the cause of that horrible metallic super-fishy taste that occurs when some red wines are paired with fish. It's iron. Specifically, the amount of ferrous ion present in the wine. You can read... News Red Wine Pairings Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/21/Red-Wine--Fish-or-Why-I-Love-Science Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/20/Your-Tongue--Bubbles There's a fascinating article in the NY Times today about how the tongue perceives the particular taste of carbonated beverages—a category that includes sparkling wines. Evidently, it isn't the prickliness of the popping bubbles that gi... News Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:02:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/20/Your-Tongue--Bubbles Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/15/Twitter-Wine Yes, oddly enough, social networking phenomenon Twitter is coming out with a wine (full story from the SF Weekly blog here). No idea how good the juice is, as it won't be bottled until August of 2010, but the proceeds are going to a good cause&#8... News Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:04:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/15/Twitter-Wine Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/13/Wine-Vs-Wrestlers Yes, it's come to this—as the LA Times reports here, wrestling mogul Vince McMahon and his World Wrestling Entertainment company are taking legal action against the Philadelphia-based American Wine Foundation to prevent it from referring to... News Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:02:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/13/Wine-Vs-Wrestlers Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/2/One-Winner-Buys-Another Just heard that F&W American Wine Award winning winery Cliff Lede (the 2007 Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc won in 2008) has gone and snapped up F&W American Wine Award winning winery Breggo Cellars (Best New Winery of the Year, 2008). Apparently ... News Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:50:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/2/One-Winner-Buys-Another Ray Isle http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/21/Balvenies-New-LimitedEdition-Whiskey When a friend invited me to a five-course, whiskey-paired dinner at Eleven Madison Park last Wednesday, I hesitated before accepting. I’ve been to plenty of wine- and beer-paired dinners, but sipping whiskey through a meal sounded a little inte... News Tastings Spirits Biodynamics Pairings Restaurants Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:41:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/21/Balvenies-New-LimitedEdition-Whiskey Jen Murphy http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/16/Beer-News-from-Samuel-Adams Yesterday I sat down in the Food & Wine tasting room with Samuel Adams founder and brewer Jim Koch to try some of his latest releases. After two years of tinkering, Koch has perfected the recipe for his new Coastal Wheat. The idea was to bottle t... News Beer Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:39:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/16/Beer-News-from-Samuel-Adams Jen Murphy