Pretty funny:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/dr-steve-brule-wine-tasting/3251264159

Thanks to Steven Comfort for the alert!

http://tinyurl.com/5dj4bu

I follow Mike Steinberger’s column in Slate pretty religiously, and his last one on great wines for less than $150 was a real treat.  You can read it here.  You can also read his previous column on great wines for less than $15 here.

3 stories:

• New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging
• Burgundy Learns to Bottle Consistency
• What’s the Peppery Note in Those Shirazes?

Enjoy!

I could not recommend this book highly enough for our group. Whether you are a cork dork, passing oenophile, or just like drinking alcoholic grape juice, it reads like a mystery novel (but it’s true!). This is a great mini-review:

The Billionaire’s Vinegar is the ultimate page-turner. Written with literary intelligence, it has a cast of characters like something out of Fawlty Towers meets The Departed. It takes you into a subculture so deep and delicious, you can almost taste the wine that turns so many seemingly rational people into madmen. It is superb nonfiction.

— BUZZ BISSINGER, author of Friday Night Lights

For more on the author, the book, and the book tour, visit:

http://www.benjaminwallace.net/home.html

And in a related story, Will Smith’s production company has optioned the book for a movie.

And…here’s the NYTimes review.