No, as much as I’d love to have you over, we can’t accommodate more than about a dozen guests at our house. But if you don’t have any plans and will be in New York for Thanksgiving dinner, I would highly recommend the Beard House. Every year they serve a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner with a guest winemaker serving his or her wines.
For the second year in a row, Tony Coturri of Coturri Winery will be that guest winemaker. He’ll be pouring some fabulous stuff, including his North Coast 2008 Rosé. If you missed out this summer, here’s your chance to wrap your taste buds around one fantastic Rosé.
Totally coincidentally, I had already decided that the Coturri North Coast Rosé was going to be one of our choices for our own T-Bird fete, so I got my hands on a few of the last remaining cases. So, check out the Beard House deal, and if you can’t make it I’ll sell you some of this precious juice along with other Coturri delights. If you didn’t know, The Beard House is the Greenwich Village brownstone that was the residence of the late James Beard, the legendary chef, cookbook author and all around famous foodie, before being a foodie was cool. It’s a beautiful place with a garden and a fantastic dining room. The food is always wonderful, and you get to meet a lot of interesting folks, because you’re dining at communal tables. Check it out for T-Day or for their other offerings throughout the year. I wish I was getting a free dinner out of this, but I’m only talking it up it because it’s a uniquely New York experience, and I love it that Tony’s wines will once again be featured with great food. Live it up!
Usually with Summer’s end comes an end (or at least a dwindling) of the whackos who come through the door at West Side Wine.
Welcome back, gang. I hope that your summer was as good as ours. We did a week in Lake Tahoe with 17 of Ellen’s family members (including three kids and two teenagers) under one roof. I know, it sounds like a recipe for disaster, but it was great fun. We all had a great time because they’re great folks. Then we just got back from a Labor Day weekend wedding in Sea Island, Georgia. If you’ve never been there, you owe it to yourself. A truly beautiful part of these United States.
Ah, summer. As a retailer it’s always a mixed bag. Then throw in a “recession” and it really gets interesting.
What a blast we had this past weekend. My dearest and oldest friend’s daughter got married up in the Berkshires, and along with all of her friends, a bunch of us geezers were invited as well. I got the wine assignment, naturally. BTW, two great wines that are crowd and wallet pleasers — the Barbi Aboccato Orvieto and the Monte Oton Garnacha.
For some reason, lately I’ve have been asked a lot about what’s going on out there in trend land. And it’s both customers and suppliers doing the asking. Now, I kind of expect it of suppliers, but customers? I wouldn’t think of choosing/buying a wine because it’s hot. But as we can all imagine, there is a current stampede toward “value” wines. Keeping that in mind as part of the equation, here’s what’s rocking from where I’m sitting.
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West Side Wine has come upon a unique marketing opportunity in the ever-expanding world of promotional possibilities –
Thank god for Stan’s, is all I can say. Louie and I went up to the Bronx for our first game at the new stadium on game two of the first home stand. We met at Stan’s, per usual, and the gang was all there — Joe, Mike, little Mike, Carl, and Lou (the owner). It was like we never left. We congratulated them on their