“The Walking Dead” is the one television show during which I am never tempted to eat or drink. But if you’ve been thinking, “Gosh, I sure wish there was a varietally correct wine I could be enjoying while I watch…
If you’ve been paying attention to the news at all, you’ve heard about The Great Pappy Heist, in which 65 cases of 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bourbon and nine cases of 13-year-old Van Winkle rye with a combined value of more…
I’m going to be featuring a lot of tasting notes on the blog this week, so in today’s Trivia I’m sharing a tip for tasting bourbon: Don’t ”nose” it the way you do wine. You know how you stick your whole nose…
Over the weekend I attended a party where Tim Laird, Brown-Forman’s “CEO” (Chief Entertaining Officer), was slinging the drinks, and I experienced one of the most eye-opening (palate-awakening?) moments of my bourbon-drinking life: I had bourbon and red wine. In…
Counting down to the season premiere of HBO’s “True Blood” at 9 and contemplating which beverage will make the best accompaniment. A Bloody Mary would be an obvious choice, but I’d rather face the True Death than drink tomato juice,…
Let me say up front that I love Louisville’s L & N Wine Bar and Bistro, and that probably when you visit an establishment with “wine” right in the name of it, that is what you should drink there – and usually that…
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