Each of these wines managed to be especially attractive for the price and stopped short of the overblown sweet fruit-bomb style that too many inexpensive Aussie reds possess.
I still smile when I recall the way one waiter, seeing that I was refilling a guest's glass of red wine, managed to assume the chore.
Now it is renowned for beautiful red wines that manage to combine power and density with structure, shape and a distinctive sense of place.
Which wines can manage this pairing, and why, has remained a mystery that even the best-trained sommeliers do not understand.
He and colleagues also landed on another important discovery: how overly enthusiastic wine swirlers manage to splash their drinks, possibly staining their sweaters.
Richard A. Wines, senior managing director at the firm, points out that southern Connecticut has a disproportionate number of hedge funds, many known for their rapid-fire trading.
We all found the lagreins to be appealing wines that managed to combine richness and delicacy and that seemed to be delicious both young and with five or more years of aging.
Vinfolio, based in San Francisco, provides fine wine fans and collectors with technology to purchase and manage wine collections, and share their ratings and opinions with others.
And as much as he loved the social aspects of eating, the long conversations over the last of the wine, he managed, with some gentle prodding from Peggy, to think of the feeding tube as a kind of liberation.
The story has it that Craig Walzer and Oliver Wise first conceived the idea of the Atlantis bookstore after a few too many glasses of wine and managed to pull it off mainly because they persuaded four of their friends to join them before realizing what they were getting themselves into.
