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Snooth, “the world’s largest and most comprehensive online wine destination, featuring millions of reviews and hundreds of thousands of wines,” gave props to the Gang of Pour and two other wine blogs in their weekly “What We’ve Been Reading” column.  Subtitled “3 blogs bringing the wit as well as the wine,” Snooth editor, Gregory Dal Piaz says this about the Gang – “Gang of Pour is another group effort, with five main contributing authors at this point. This is some fine wine writing — always with a bit of cheek, which makes it that much more interesting to read. Check ’em out and see if one of these guys, and gal, has a palate, and sense of humor, that matches yours.”

The other two blogs are  Another Wine Blog and Suburban Wino.

Thanks, Gregory!

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VIA Chateau Grand Traverse – Origin Story: A very, cool video of Ed Sr. explaining how wine growing began on the Old Mission Peninsula.

Michigan Stories- Ed O’Keefe from Reid Ashton on Vimeo.

Thanks Shar!

This month’s dinner/tasting with my regular group, the X-pensive Winos, gave us the opportunity to compare wines from two very different, but related estates, Chateau de Beaucastel and Tablas Creek.  Of course, everyone knows that Tablas Creek is a partnership created by Beaucastel and its importer, Robert Haas.  The estate was created with the declared intent to create a wine with the heritage and quality of the great Chateauneuf du Pape, but reflective of its American terroir.  Most of us had tasted numerous examples of both estates, and at least Beaucastel is very highly regarded by most of us in the group.  But I know that I had not really been all that impressed by Tablas Creek, which seemed like a very well-run winery with big ambitions, but whose wines, while quite good, had never seemed particularly distinctive, except that they are clearly different from a lot of other Rhone-style wines in Paso Robles.  With all the big, ripe mo-fo’s out there in Paso, Tablas Creek just seemed a bit underwhelming.  But maybe that’s the point?  Tablas Creek is clearly not making the “typical” Paso Robles red, so this tasting gave us the chance to see if Beaucastel’s genes had really found their way into their Paso offspring.   Read the rest of this entry »

Madeline Triffon and Claudia Tyagi - (photo courtesy HourDetroit.com)

When it comes to just about anything Michigan-related, and especially wine and food, we’re unabashed homers here at Adams, Heritier and Associates.  So, we were more than a little interested and intrigued last November when our good friend, Master Sommelier Claudia Tyagi, first told us about an event being planned for this spring to promote both aspects of our state’s economy.  As the date nears and those plans come together, we’re getting downright excited, and not simply because we’ll be involved ourselves.  “The Michigan Wine & Food Showcase” is shaping up to be a great event, with something to offer all foodies and wine lovers in southeastern Michigan and surrounding environs. Read the rest of this entry »

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We got a private tweet from our buddy Jarred Gild last week, wondering if we were free to get together soon for some good food and wine. Ask us a question like that, and you’ll usually get an answer like, “Hell yeah!” So, at the appointed hour, we stopped in at Western Market in Ferndale, where Jarred runs the wine and beer department, picked up a slew of sausages, peppers and a bagguette, collected several wines that he wanted to try with us and moseyed on over to his place to eat, drink and make merry, all with much lively conversation. There was one white wine that was put in a bucket to chill, but somehow, we never got to it, so it was all reds and there’s nothing wrong with that. We started out on Burgundy, but soon hit the harder stuff… Read the rest of this entry »