The Spirit World

Wines of Germany and the European Union present the fifth annual Riesling Week, May 18-24th. During the week, restaurants and wine retailers from coast to coast will celebrate Riesling from Germany, Austria and Alsace as the perfect complement to any warm-weather meal.  Restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Las Vegas and Miami will offer […]

Wine & Spirits Magazine  will host its First Annual New York Event, Top of the List , Tuesday, June 2nd.  Over 100 wineries will pour the top wines served in America’s best restaurants, paired with specialties from some of NYC’s most esteemed chefs.
The tasting happens at City Winery-the new live music space that holds the […]

Tickets for the seventh annual Tales of the Cocktail conference and gathering for aficionados of well-made mixed drinks, went on sale last week. Tales brings together bartenders, restaurateurs, distillers, brand managers, cocktail enthusiasts, and anyone interested in learning and practicing the fine art of cocktail-making. As in years past, the event will feature seminars for […]

More than 50 wineries will participate in the highly anticipated food and wine festival, Taste of Vail.  Over four days in April, wine connoisseurs and budding aficionados will taste new varietals and learn from the winemakers themselves.  Numerous educational seminars, entertaining dinners and the après ski wine tasting event will allow engaging interaction with the […]

Wine Travel Guides just has launched two comprehensive on-line travel guides to the major wine regions of Tuscany, Italy and a further two guides to the Rioja wine region in Spain. These are the first guides the website has published to wine regions outside of France, and brings the total number of guides available to […]

Snooth - that great social wine note storage site goes from strength to strength.
The latest, and trendiest way to access (that Mr Obama has a lot to answer for!) the ever growing database of wines is via the blackberry.
“When we launched the iPhone site a few weeks back, a few of you with Blackberrys and […]

Feast on this! Finally a Chianti I like that fits my artist picks (wines under $10) - Saggio Chianti. Times have changed. The former DOC classification was all about quantity but now it’s all about quality with the Chianti Classico DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) - the Italian wine classification for wines with […]

I recently attended the first annual North American Wine Bloggers’ Conference, held at the Flamingo Hotel in Sonoma, CA. Primarily developed by the OpenWine Consortium and Zephyr Wine Adventures, the conference featured a wide variety of activities, many of which differered from your usual conference fare. As a first forray into this arena, the conference […]

In the wake of the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference, the first North American Wine Bloggers’ Conference will take place from October 24-26, 2008 at the Flamingo Resort in Sonoma, CA. The three-day program will feature a variety of activities, which include both wine tasting and winery visits, along with opportunities for live blogging and blog-related […]

On Monday July 21, 2008, the doors officially opened on a new New Orleans institution, the Museum of the American Cocktail. The push to open the museum was spearheaded by several cocktail luminaries, including of course Dr. Cocktail, the museum’s curator. Many of the greatest names in cocktails have been involved in creating and opening […]