Michael Pinkus Wine Review - On the Road with the Grape Guy

On the Road with the Grape Guy

On the Road with the Grape Guy is a on-going feature that follows me from event to event ... I post my thoughts, feelings and reviews of what happened and what I tasted ... basically it is here that I review the events I attend and the things that thrilled me.

Report from - Essence of Port Luncheon ... March 5, 2009

25 Mar 2009

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Port fans unite … what an amazing tasting of vintage and non-vintage ports this was; and we had the managing director of the Fladgate Partnership, Adrian Bridge, to take us through it. So let’s start this Port lesson with who the Fladgate partnership is.

If you drink port or even casually know about Port these names are as familiar to you as your own: Taylor Fladgate, Croft and Fonseca - they all fall under the Fladgate umbrella. But before I get to what I thought was the real reason for us assembling let’s meet Adrian and learn a little about Port... (Read more)

To read about more interesting adventures thru the world of wine check out the On the Road With the Grape Guy blog.

Report from - New York Tasting ... February 18, 2009

23 Mar 2009

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A couple of summer’s ago I was in New York state tasting their wines in the Finger Lakes area … in fact I wrote a couple of articles about it in two newsletters (#63 & #65). It has been quite a while since New York Wines crossed the border to let us try their wares en-mass. Sure we see them at the Wine and Cheese and Gourmet Shows in Toronto, but this time they were on their own and I was more than happy to get another taste of the wines from down-under-Ontario …

New York by the Numbers and Regions …(Read more)

To read about more interesting adventures thru the world of wine check out the On the Road With the Grape Guy blog.