By Tom Welsh: The day following the big tasting event, I crossed both the Garonne and Dordogne rivers to tour the “right bank” area of Bordeaux. You have probably heard reference to the left and right “banks” of Bordeaux. The “left bank” refers to land on the western side…
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Editor’s Note: While Carl is busy trying to get the wine bar up and running, we’ve asked Tom Welsh, the new manager of the 530 Wine Bar, to fill in for this week’s blog. I’m pleased to be back contributing a blog entry to TiedemannOnWines.com. As with my first opportunity to do so, I’m sharing some of the wine-related experiences I had on a recent trip to France. The trip was planned around an annual tasting event in Bordeaux of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux, an organization…
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Most of us “everyday wine drinkers” drink wines from California and generally spend between $15.00 and $60.00 on a bottle of wine. We also know that some expensive bottles of wine can cost thousands of dollars per bottle…
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Today’s blog is another from guest blogger Tom Welsh, general manager and partner at Tapastrie restaurant: Everyone loves bubbles, right? So this will be a fun blog. Today I’m writing a general overview of sparkling wine, the various types and areas of production. Sparkling wine is often associated with celebration and rightly so, but it is certainly not necessary to wait for a special occasion to drink some…
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In this week’s wine blog I want to share and update you on several items I hope you’ll find interesting. Lettie Teague, wine columnist, author I have been reading The Wall Street Journal for years and one of my favorite columns is Lettie Teague’s “On Wine.” The column appears weekly in The Journal’s “Off Duty” […]
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