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B-List Wines: A-List Taste 2008-07-23 03:41:43 Like many things, with wine, it pays to do your homework. Learning what top producers make wines that are more affordable can often mean great taste for a lot less green. There are far too many to list here, but here are some of my favorite bottles by top flight producers that are [...] Read more:Wines
Wine At A Baseball Game? 2008-07-22 02:08:57 I just got back from a baseball game, Seattle vs. Boston and my poor Mariners lost, as usual. While I am much more upset about the fact that there were seemingly more Boston fans than Mariner fans present, this is not really the place to be venting such grievances. However, it is quite [...] Read more:Baseball Game
Summer Time: Wines For Hot Weather Part II 2008-07-20 03:48:45 Part two of the summer wine special. I want to write a little about a wine that does not get much play. That is, this wine is much less well known than most white wines out there, and I think it stands up to a ton of different dishes and is exceptionally easy [...] Read more:Wines
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Summer Time: Wines For Hot Weather Part I 2008-07-18 03:50:06 When I am asked what wines go with different foods or with different seasons I usually respond with something along the lines of:
DRINK THE WINES YOU LIKE WITH THE FOODS YOU LIKE
Of course, drinking Cabernet or Chardonnay with everything is pretty boring and there are tons of fantastic wines out there to try. Here are [...] Read more:Wines
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Storing Wine That is Open 2008-07-17 03:50:52 I received a question this week about storing wine once it has been open:
What’s the best way to ‘save’ a bottle of wine you don’t finish? How long can you save it for? Recommendations for good stoppers (I don’t even know what they’re called!?)
Well, first of all, they are called stoppers (good job!), but we’ll [...]
Is Ignorance of Wine Bliss? 2008-07-17 01:10:43 I was sent a very interesting New York Times article today from a friend. It is by the author of Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt. In it, he tells his tale of being in the Harvard Society of Fellows, a society for the brightest of the bright to rub elbows and study in different departments [...] Read more:Bliss
Glasses Pt. 2: The Wine is Poured… Now What? 2008-07-15 16:55:12 Let’s set the scene. You and your boo are at a restaurant and you decide to order a bottle of wine (always a good decision no matter what kind of food you are eating!). The waiter, or sometimes the sommelier (a French word that basically means wine expert, most nicer restaurants have one) [...] Read more:Glasses
Glasses: The Only Thing You Should Be Drinking Wine Out Of 2008-07-15 16:21:18 Glasses are perhaps the second most important thing when it comes to wine, second only of course to the wine itself. Don’t believe me? Here’s a fun way to test how much of a difference wine glasses can make. The next bottle you open, pour some vino (Italian for wine, much more [...] Read more:Glasses
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Welcome to Hip2Wine 2008-07-13 16:16:20 Hello and welcome to Hip2Wine.com, a new wine blog designed to make wine more accessible and more fun for young and experienced wine drinkers alike! The site will feature wine reviews, tips, recipes, buying advice, and much more. We hope you will find Hip2Wine enhances your next wine experience. Please feel free to take a [...] Read more:Welcome
Are You Ready for Some Football? 2008-08-07 16:07:09 Football season is right round the corner and if there’s one thing I love doing on the weekends it’s waking up at 6:30 in the morning, cracking open a beer and settling in to my favorite chair to watch 90 minutes of non-stop action. Oh, sorry, you didn’t think I was talking about American football [...] Read more:Football
Wine Tour Day 2: Tasting Room Summaries 2008-08-07 02:16:18 My post from last night on Sheridan Vineyard left out my reactions to all of the wineries I’ve been to thus far on this trip. So, tonight I thought I would write about tasting yesterday and today. There are far too many wines for me to list details of here, so instead, I [...]
Summer Beers 2008-08-06 18:29:22 It get hot where I live. Very hot. Desert hot. So hot that I’ve actually heard people debate whether it’s better to take a hot or cold shower in the morning. While the argument for a cold shower is obvious enough, the argument in favor of a scalding wake up call says that it’s a [...] Read more:Summer
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Wine Tour Day 1: Sheridan Vineyard Tour 2008-08-05 20:55:20 I visited one vineyard and four wineries today. It was an incredible day in Washington Wine Country!
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: Sheridan Vineyard is both a vineyard and a winery. We had the pleasure of cruising around the entire property with Chris Hoon, the vineyard manager and winemaker. This was one of the most educational experiences [...]
Wine Trip Preview 2008-08-04 16:04:39 Tomorrow I will be heading to Eastern Washington for tours and tastings. I will be taking pictures and blogging about it throughout my trip which will last the rest of the week.
I am especially excited for tomorrow, as we will be taking a tour of one of the most prestigious vineyards in the state: Sheridan [...] Read more:Preview
Wine Questions Answered 2008-08-02 04:16:27 I have received several great questions recently, and I wanted to answer two related questions here tonight.
Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with a naughty cork that breaks or gets in your wine?
The easy answer here is, use a good quality wine opener and open bottles carefully. However, the “naughty” [...]
Beer! Wonderful Beer! 2008-08-01 03:33:56 The saying goes something like this: “it takes a lot of good beer to make great wine.” It’s in part because of this expression that there is a beer column coming to Hip2wine. It’s also due to the fact that beer and wine have so much in common that there really isn’t much of an [...] Read more:Wonderful
Woodhouse Family Cellars Tasting and Visit 2008-08-01 03:02:49 Some people you meet and immediately you feel welcome and at ease. That is exactly what happens when you walk into Woodhouse FamilyCellars
in Woodinville, WA. We had the pleasure today of tasting five exceptional wines from a producer who’s wines will only continue to get better and more sought after. [...]
Twitter, Hip To Wine and Winetweets 2008-08-01 01:30:49 I found a fantastic group on Twitter
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When you have a wine you like post it using @winetweets and then tell everyone in just a few words about the wine. I love reading these kinds of mini reviews and it is a great way to find new wines with tasting notes right there [...]
One Winemaker, Two Wines From Different States 2008-07-31 04:13:07 Randy Dunn makes Cabernet Sauvignon for both Dunn Vineyards in Napa Valley as well as for the Long Shadows label Feather from Washington State. Long Shadows is a project of Alan Shoup’s which pairs top wine makers from around the world with Washington State grapes. Here is a comparison of two wines made by Dunn [...] Read more:Wines
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Truly Fine Wines Riesling Sampler 2008-08-20 19:14:31 I want to say a big thank you to Truly Fine Wines
for sending me some samples of their fantastic Rieslings which they import from Germany. The wines were each very different despite all three of them being Rieslings and all three coming from the same producer.
Same producer, three very different Rieslings
I tried each one [...] Read more:Sampler
Wine Maker Dinner with Delille and Betz 2008-08-20 18:28:50 Last night I was able to attend a wine makers dinner, part of the Washington Wine Commission’s Auction of Washington Wines. The dinner was hosted by both Delille Cellars and Betz Family Winery. Also in attendance was famed grower Jim Holmes of Ciel du Cheval Vineyard in the Red Mountain AVA of Washington. Dinner
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Picnic! Rubbing Elbows With the Wine Makers 2008-08-15 15:28:53 Yesterday was the 2008 edition of Picnic
, a part of the Washington Wine Commission’s Auction of Washington Wines. The event featured a silent auction of Washington wine, games to play to win wine, and a barrel auction of future limited production wines from several different wineries. The event brings out many from the wine industry [...] Read more:Rubbing
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Auction of Washignton Wine Weekend Preview 2008-08-14 18:08:28 I’m sitting in my hotel room right now about to head out to Picnic, part of the Washigton Wine Commission’s big summer event that is the Auction
of Washington Wines. You can read more about it all here.
I’ll be out tasting tonight, having dinner with the winemaker and owner of Delille Cellars tomorrow, and Saturday [...] Read more:Weekend
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Sparkman Cellars Release Party! 2008-08-14 04:14:44 I had the pleasure of going to Sparkman Cellars
release party this past weekend up in Woodinville, Washington. Sparkman started up in 2004 and this release is their biggest to date. What was especially fun about the release party is that we had the chance to try some wines that are not yet available to [...] Read more:Release
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Cabernet Franc Tasting! 2008-08-13 03:20:11 Tonight I participated in an experiment: three Cabernet
Francs from one state. Of course, my state of choice was Washington. I wanted to taste wines from different years as well as finding different labels. I am on a big Cab Franc fix this summer, but until now I haven’t really written about it. Tonight, I [...]
Walla Walla Wine Tasting Summaries 2008-08-12 04:12:07 Here are my summaries and selected notes from several different wineries in Walla Walla, Washington. Our goal for this trip to Walla Walla was to try and visit some truly boutique wineries. I learned at Long Shadows that a boutique winery is defined as a winery with less than 10,000 cases each year.
àMaurice Cellars: This [...] Read more:Wine Tasting
Longshadows Winery Visit and Tasting 2008-08-11 05:05:47 Longshadows is the brain child of famed Washington wine VIP Allen Shoup, the former CEO at Chateau Ste Michelle. The idea is a simple one: pair world class wine makers with Washington grapes. We had the pleasure of getting a tour of the winery as well as tasting three of the wines. Technically speaking, each [...] Read more:Winery
Shining Hill: Col Solare Tour and Tasting 2008-08-09 04:05:57 Chateau Ste Michelle is the largest and oldest winery in Washington State. Their top of the line wine is Col Solare, a partnership with the famed Antinori’s of Tuscany. I had the pleasure of being able to take a private tour of the facility and taste both the 2004 and 2005 vintages.
-The front of the [...] Read more:Shining
Wine and Politics 2008-09-10 16:23:07 I’m going to let everyone in on a secret. I am a recovering political blogger. Now I know that wine is a relatively apolitical entity, however, since I am coming down from the political conventions I thought why not write about wines for watching political coverage.
Please note that this post is written from a [...]
Midwest Brews and The Best Beer I’ve Ever Had 2008-09-09 00:15:37 I recently took a trip to see my parents in Chicago and decided that it would be a great opportunity to try some Midwest
ern brews that I wasn’t privy to out west. The beers I tried while in Chi (as Kanye calls it) were flat out amazing, with one in [...]
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