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Cars!!! Whatever to do!?

We aren’t going to sugar coat it: the North End is tricky for parking.  If you’re a pro parallel parker you can find a spot every once in a while …

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Spring Fling Tasting!

Whether the weather cooperates or not, we’re celebrating! Ok, here is the debate… Which is better: that it’s the first day of spring or it was the last day of …

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Don’t Judge a Wine by the Size of its Package!

Tonight we seek the answer to the age-old question: “Does size really matter?” Why is it that with so many things “bigger is better”, but put wine in something over …

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Rah! Rah! Ree! Kick ‘em in the Knee!: A Tasting of Lazio

Poor Lazio… (Located at Italy’s “knee”) The first I ever heard of winemaking around Rome, was in a guidebook about the majestic city.  It warned that if you were offered “local wine” …

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The Eve of Open That Bottle Night – Friday Tasting

Tomorrow is possibly the most important day of the year on the wine calendar! (No silly, my birthday isn’t until August)  For the past ten years, the last Saturday of …

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Matteo’s Recent Underground Riesling Trocken Tasting

“I recently took part in a covert Riesling trocken (dry) tasting the auspices of which; time, place, and tasting colleagues will remain enigmatically undisclosed…The tasting was organized in a double …

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The Second Glass Interview!

First the front page of The North End Regional Review and now this!  The Second Glass is a fantastic on-line (and occasionally print) magazine whose mission is to demystify wine …

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Good Morning, Gianluca Grasso!

Every day should start off so well!  As I wrangled our ridiculous grates off the windows this morning, shivering in the frigid air, I looked up to see Gianluca Grasso …

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Do you have Dog Point? A spontaneous vertical tasting.

It was one of those weird small world coincidences that I love so much about this industry… I could tell that the two guys who walked into the store knew …

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Versatility in the Veneto

Romeo and Juliet, Gondoliers, Sunset over the Grand Canal… The romance of Venice and Verona are second only to the multi-dimensional wine production of the Veneto.  Stretching from the Sudtirol …

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