A & B Package Store

• September 2012

  Thought it would be a great idea for us to take part in trading some of our favorite wines to each other this holiday season. Something in the $30 - 40+ range retail sounds about right (best if found at cheaper/cheapest retailer), and the wines should be ready to drink now so we can all post about our impressions of the wines we were given, but ... Read More

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• August 2012

  I used to spend a LOT of time on snooth, but a job assignment took me away for awhile.  I am seeing some new faces, and some old.  As one who is catching up, I would like to hear from some new people here.   I think/hope we all share not only a love for wine, but a desire to share our experience.  Welcome, new Snoothers! Read More

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• May 2012

  I'm heading to LA for a dinner with Numanthia on Thursday June 14th, hopefully I'll see some of you there, but if anyone is up for dinner on the day either before or after that day let me know. I'm making plans soon so I just want to line something up before b uying the tickets! Read More

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• March 2012

  Wanting to refresh my memory on certain French vintages in the Rhône Valley I came across (as I often do) the Robert Parker Vintage Chart.  Parker includes vintages from 1970 through 2010 on his website and scores them on the usual 100 point scale.  He claims that scores of 70-79 are "average" while those of 80-89 are "above average to excellent... Read More

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• June 2011

  The cork vs. screwcap as a wine bottle closure argument/discussion has been done more than once on these pages.  My point here is to encourage some discussion around the merits (or lack-there-of) of arguments in favor of cork as an ethical choice, similar to choosing organic wines, etc.The journalof the Ecological Society Of America published th... Read More

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• August 2010

  *If you have zero interest in reading about a Brooklyn Wine Shop then feel free to dismiss the thread. I figured that there would be enough NYers and/or transients on the board to make this a worthwhile post.I’m the last guy to champion my local retailers. Why, you ask? Because they stink…well, that’s not fair- they’re dirty and unimaginative an... Read More

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• November 2009

  Wine Storage - Barrels It's not entirely clear when and where barrels actually originated, although their use became widespread under the Romans. Some evidence regarding the earliest wooden barrels comes from writings, some from illustrations, and some from archeological finds. A big problem is that pottery lasts longer than wood over the cent... Read More

  From the article The History of Wine Part III - Wine Storage - Barrels

  
  

• November 2009

  THE BASIC MATERIAL – POTTERY Although the original object was to write about sweet wine, since many early wines were likely to have been sweet, some notes on wine in general seemed appropriate. Similarly, because wine has for so long been an important commercial item, and because the packaging directly affects the product itself, some notes on p... Read More

  From the article The History of Wine Part II - Wine Storage - The Early Days

  
  

• December 2008

  This is potentially huge - it would take New York state from 2,500 wine outlets to over 20,000: http://www.decanter.com/news/274209.htmlI like that a British mag broke the news! Read More

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• October 2008

  Nothing is as humbling, as clearly façade crushing and as egalitarian as that old weapon in the wine geeks' quiver, the feared blind tasting! Sitting down with an array of wines in front you sitting in their smug brown paper wrappers, or in this case their snazzy unlabeled bottles marked A-H (we are after all professionals at this) can be an u... Read More

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