MONTICELLO AVA BARBOURSVILLE VINEYARDS 1) 2019 Vermentino Reserve 2) 2019 Cabernet Franc Reserve 3) 2017 Nebbiolo Reserve 4) 2017 Octagon...

Christ Church, Greenwich, CT, USA: April 22, 2022 PLEASE NOTE: Tasting notes for these wines will be up on this blog entry by 11:59 PM,...

Rosenthal Wine Merchants, Williamsburg, Brooklyn: April 12, 2002 AUSTRIAN WINES: Josef Fischer (Rossatz, Wachau) 1) 2021 Grüner Veltliner...

BEFORE WE START… Post-Covid, the tasting shows traditionally put on by distributors in the area have really picked up again. I recently...

For many, “Dry January” extends into February and March. Yet while consumers may have been hibernating from liquid pleasures, the wine...

Despite the huge growth of breweries in Connecticut, lower Fairfield County has been conspicuously uninvolved in the craft beer movement....

Time waits for no one, and between errands and phone calls this Saturday, my day’s Plan A got away from me. Then Plan B did too. No...

The evidence is in, and 2021 is proving to be a down year for maple syrup production in Connecticut. The late-winter night/day...

This weekend’s Greenwich Wine Store Roundup features some really tasty items from a number of different countries and wine regions. We go...

Since 2017, the State Senate has considered March to be “Connecticut Maple Month.” The designation is no coincidence. March in New...

The other day, my old boss, Randy Caravella of Post Wine & Spirits in Cos Cob, invited me to taste a bottle of Opus One. It was a very...

In 1987, there was only one producer of whiskey in Ireland. Since then, 37 new or refurbished distilleries have come online in Ireland,...

Christian Dalbavie, French Portfolio Specialist for Kobrand – Louis Jadot’s American Importer and part-owner — was recently in the State...

The 2019 vintage in Burgundy was the car wreck that you somehow pick a path through and escape unscathed. It was a year of disasters. ...

This week the Frenchy’s Wine Road weekly round-up relates what’s going on at some or all of the 24 wine, spirit, and beer specialty...

Today, the Greenwich Free Press and Frenchy’s Wine Road are excited to announce that we are launching a weekly round-up of happenings at...

There are many Greenwich stores well worth the visit this holiday season. Two more that come to mind are Cap, Cork & Cellar and Putnam &...

It is heartening to see how many superlative wine stores we have in Greenwich. At a time when so much of the wine business is...

Spend any time in Greenwich, and you realize that it’s not so much a Town as a Federation of Villages, each forming a Neighborhood, the...

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