My Tips and Thoughts on Wine Lists and Ordering Wine in a Restaurant Over the past three weeks we have again been discussing wine lists, specifically the wine list at McCarthy’s on the Riverwalk (Elkhart, Ind.) In this posting I have freshened up, clarified and expanded on several topics in an earlier piece I posted […]
McCarthy’s Wine List – Part 1: Assessment

One of my goals when I started Tiedemann On Wines.com was to be a source of information on wine and the lifestyle wine is such a part of. We like to provide as much knowledge and general information on wine and its culture as we can at all levels…knowledge or information you can use in […]
McCarthy's On the Riverwalk, Tom Borger, wine lists, wines by the glassThe Napa Valley Bistro Is “Delightful”

For dinner on my first night in Napa, good friends Brian and Lori Nuss, Didier Loustau and Susan Quinn took me to dinner at the newly opened Napa Valley Bistro located in downtown Napa just east of Main Street at 975 Clinton Street. The Napa Valley Bistro was opened in May of this year by […]
Brian Nuss, Cabernet, Napa Valley, Napa Valley Bistro, restaurant, Vinoce, wines by the glassWine Lists: Striking Fear Into Mankind. Part I

Wine lists are one of the items that can quickly strike fear into a grown person. Restaurant patrons, including many of my friends, dread the thought of dealing with a wine list. In part one of this two-part series we will discuss: What is a wine list? How are they organized? What is a good wine list […]
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