How to Be a Baller: 1) buy a sports team 2) buy an island 3) bring your own vintage wine to a restaurant Jay-Z crossed #1 off the list a while ago, and it’s now official that he rocks #3 too. This little pic hit the Twitterverse last week – it’s of Jay having lunch … Continue reading
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magic mike – he’s just like wine!
I was actually going to compare Magic Mike to an unoaked Chardonnay or a filtered “stripped-down” wine for this post, but then this Groupon thing for Naked Wines got emailed to me yesterday and so he we are. Naked Wines is this new company that supports independent winemakers around the world. They help them produce wine … Continue reading
steve carell used to work in wine!
Are you kidding me? Jeez, the things you find out about people. Steve Carell is hilarious and makes a ton of coin acting now, but he recently told Parade that he used to be a wine telemarketer! “Talking people into buying wine on the phone is not an easy job to begin with” he said, … Continue reading
mad men: wine isn’t old fashioned
So the finale was far less dramatic than last week’s episode, but we did have wine! And of course, leave it to our Official Mad Men Grapefriend, Megan. So first, we see OMMG and her mom drinking some Burgundy. This is what they’ve been drinking all season, and they’re having it as their pre-dinner cocktail … Continue reading
ray bradbury’s wine love (of the dandelion variety)
Ray Bradbury passed away today, leaving many science-fictional works behind (27 novels and 600 short stories to be exact). His one sort of autobiographical novel though was called Dandelion Wine. The main character is Douglas Spaulding, a 12-year-old boy whose grandfather makes dandelion wine during the summer. Most people think of dandelions as weeds, but the Spauldings … Continue reading
god save the grapes
Jubilee Time! Celebrating with English wine? Yeah, probably not. But over the past few years, the quality has been gone way up. English sparkling wine producers RidgeView released a bottle of sparkling rosé, the Victoria, to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubliee. It’s 63% Pinot Meunier and 37% Pinot Noir, with a pale salmon color. I … Continue reading
mad men: the catcher in the whiskey
I’m not that into Mad Men trying to live in the world of one of my favorite books of all time, The Catcher in the Rye. I was getting Holden Caulfield vibes right from that Sally/Glenn convo when he’s in his prep school hallway. Then I realized that Holden dates a Sally in the city. … Continue reading
mad men: wine passes on this episode
Again, this is a catch-up post but it’s a doozy. Last Sunday’s episode was the official first where no wine was consumed. But being the most amazing drink in the world, it is completely obvious why: the episode was about ugly things, and wine wanted NOTHING to do with it! Joan had her epic moral … Continue reading
mad men: the coronation of megan
First of all, this is really delayed because I was on vacation and am just catching up on my Mad Men. So this one’s about the episode where Don and Joan went drinking and the other dude went chanting. It was getting really treacherous at the end because we were at like the 50-minute mark … Continue reading
courtney loves wine
We all know Courtney Love has had her share of, uh, messy periods, but I am very jealous of this one story. “I’m not a big drinker, but Bono once gave me a bottle of Petrus in France. It gets you so stoned in a really opiated way, like you’d just taken a Vicodin. A … Continue reading
