Event: A benefit wine tasting at The Snug for Judd Hickey Center For Alzheimer’s Care. Wine presentation assisted by the Bottle Shop. Once again silent auctions and door prizes. Heavy hors d’oeuvres included.
Where: The Snug, 240 Davis Rd, Augusta, GA‎ – (706) 863-1118‎
When: Tuesday, March 9, 5-7pm
Cost: $10 per person. Drop in.
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Event: This weekend Vineyard featured all the Match Book products, plus a top 100 wine, The Stump Jump. Roger also featured a few select beers. Plus everyone welcomed John back.
Where: Vineyard Wine Market (map), 4414 Evans to Lock Road, Evans, GA. (706) 922-9463
When: Friday, March 5th, 2010, 4:30-6:30pm, Saturday, March 6th, 1-6pm
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Event: It’s First Friday again, and six great wines were presented, all at great prices. You could tell the weather is warming up, as a big crowd stopped by to taste the latest great finds at Wine World.
Every First Friday tasting is special, but this month’s seemed especially strong, from the unusual Italian wine [...]

J Vineyards Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley
Cost: $35-38
What: I’ve had the J Pinot Noirs several times and they never disappoint. Winemaker George Bursick selects great fruit from throughout the Russian River Valley to create a magical blend with an elegant style and grace. In Bursick’s capable hands, the Pinot grapes become a [...]

It was time to see if I made a good purchase or not of the Feast of Fools from Magic Hat. Or were we a Ship of Fools? This is a Variety Pak that has 3 bottles of 4 different brews. Back in January we sampled by luck (or bad luck) their Odd Notion Winter [...]

Event: More than 30 tasters raised a glass to celebrate Ray G’s birthday Monday night at the Drop-in tasting at Ninth Street Wine Market. It was a nice way to celebrate his “29th” birthday with 12 wines being presented by National Distributing and Atlanta Wholesale Wines. As usual Donna had a nice selection of appetizers [...]

Event: The Snug had a great turn out for their first beer tasting. The line up included brews from Dogfish Head, Rogue, Alligash, Harpoon, Left Hand Brewing, Flying Dog and Sam Adams. Many attending got beer coozies and visors. A door prize drawing yielded shirts, glasses and metal beer signs for several lucky tasters.
When [...]

Event: It was blind tasting time at Vineyard. Roger decided to see what people liked without seeing the label. All they knew before hand was it was either white or red. What wasn’t blind tasting was some delicious grill steak and chicken from New York Butcher Shoppe. Scott was on hand grilling in the parking [...]

“Forget the points. Be yourself.” was the key message that Michael Hirsch tried to impress on the 25 tasters at Wine World for his Wines of Italy seminar Friday night.
“Don’t read your palate”, meaning don’t read what others say, “Don’t listen to your friends’ palates. Use your palate. What do you [...]