French for lunch: La Manarine Cotes du Rhone and Ch de Brondeau Bordeaux at Rubi’s. I love this place for lunch in the Berkshires! And they have a great adjoining cheese shop called Rubiner’s that cheesefriend is a big fan of. Continue reading
Category Archives: free run juice
new mexican wine mystery
So last night I was at the Mermaid Inn Oyster Bar where they have Happy Hour – $6 wine by the glass. They had a Pinot Grigio from Veneto (not my fave), Pinot Noir from Chile (not with oysters), and a sparkling rosé from New Mexico. Obv, I had to give the NM wine a … Continue reading
show some respect
Love this label! Have no proof this is a real wine since I can’t find it anywhere legit on the interwebs. Still, words of wisdom… And true respect for the grapes haha! Continue reading
rich kids drinking on instagram
This Tumblr “Rich Kids of Instagram” went up two weeks ago, and it is amazing. Private jets, Hamptons houses, ocean backflips out of helicopters, partying with large-format bottles of bubbly. Basically, mildly nauseating and everything you’d like to be doing right now. Grapefriend has been obsessed with all the pics of these kids wielding Dom … Continue reading
fun with rosé labels
Lately I’ve been thinking about wine labels – good ones and sucky ones. It shouldn’t matter what’s on the label, but since it happens (really often) that you’re buying something in the store you’ve never tried, you do sort of go by the label. And the cliché about judging a book by its cover is … Continue reading
i feel like makin’… rosé
Apparently there’s quite a bit of misconception about how rosé wine is made, so of course grapefriend is here to clarify it all for you. The three ways you can make this delicious stuff is as follows: common way Red grapes are crushed and the skins usually stay in contact with the juice for a … Continue reading
rosé week – it’s here! it’s here!
It has been a ROUGH month – the rosé sampling required for grapefriend to do Rosé Week is just exhausting! The things I go through to bring you good info. But obviously, I freaking love rosé. I read that other people love it because it’s décontractée, which means laid back and casual. Like you’re drinking it in … Continue reading
rosé week has been delayed due to massive sampling still needed
The club can’t even handle me right now. See ya next week, Rosé Week! Continue reading
happy birthday, USA! love, grapefriend
Aside from being bountiful and, you know, a lover of freedom and stuff, here’s the real reason grapefriend knows America is the place for me: the U.S. is the world’s biggest wine market! Wine consumption has increased here every year since 1994. And last year, total wine sales here hit a new record: American grapefriends … Continue reading
fireworks – now drinkable!
When we think bubbly we usually mentally head to Champagne. Or maybe you pop Prosecco or Cava, which have also become popular and tend to cost less (a lot less). But American sparklers don’t get the same love. Not sure why, since there are so many great ones. Maybe we need a cool name to … Continue reading
