The retail shelves are flooded with bubbly choices this time of year — everything from Cook’s to Krug. And I get this question several times
Placomusophilia sounds like something that requires a course of antibiotics to clear up. It’s actually a hobby — collecting the colorful, unique metal caps found on the tops
There are two kinds of sparkling wine in this world. Champagne and Not-Champagne. Only Champagne is Champagne. Flashback: There was a time in my life (back in
Today’s words come to us from English writer and social critic, Charles Dickens. Widely considered one of the best writers of the Victorian Era (the period during Queen
I just finished reading The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar. It’s historical fiction about the last days of the Romanov family, spent under
Eat less. Move more. Drink something new. Ta-da! My goals for 2016. They may not seem like much, but that’s my design. I don’t make resolutions
Yesterday, I took my teenage daughter and a couple of her friends shopping at Tysons Corner Center (aka, the 4th Circle of Hell). I can’t
Today’s words come to us from one of the great female pioneers of Champagne, Lily Bollinger. Madame Bollinger (or Madame Jacques, as she was known) gave
A continuing series on wine labels, and the wines that wear them, under the macro lens. I love to take photos of pieces of things with my macro lens —
If you follow my Carpe Vinum adventures, you know that a couple of us are heading to France on vacation this summer (I’m going Paris and north; my
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