Restaurants like the Tasting Room, which is also a wine bar, at 72 East First Street in Manhattan, encourage diners to explore and discover wines new to them.
Reuniting with Anna on Friday, I discover "wining" is slang for raunchy dancing to Trinidadian soca music, while "liming" is simply drinking rum and chatting.
The companies are tapping into a shift in the way people buy and discover wines.
During that time, 30,000 members joined Underground Cellar to discover wines and purchase deals.
The search engine on the site has been customized to help shoppers discover wines that match their own interests, like those rated "90 & Up" in their Professional Rating, or they can pick a tasting note like "cherry" or a winery's location, in order to filter the results.
This may be the year to discover wines in our own backyard — the Malibu appellation.
If you've never attended one, this is the place to discover wines from Paso's artisan winemakers.
And wine drinkers are happy to discover wines on their own -- through tastings, their local wine shop, travels and yes, boning up by reading many of the writers in revolt against Parker.
Ms. Robinson discovered wine when she was a student at Oxford.
As a crash course in discovering wine, it probably has no equal.
