Wine market zooms, blogger buyout, NYC BYOB, and points mania — tasting sized pours
Liquid assets
“I’d bought the wine before it was even bottled, as futures, for $350, and I unloaded it for enough money to purchase a car.” Elin McCoy on her 1982 Chateau Lafleur in a piece on the wine market today. The bluest blue chip? Lafite. But could a correction be coming? [Bloomberg]
Blog buyout
Gary Vaynerchuck, video blogger and owner of the store Wine Library in Springfield, NJ buys out the social networking site, Cork’d. I wonder what Dan and Dan are uncorking tonight? [via Lenndevours]
BYOB in NYC
NY mag has a list of six BYOBs with decent wine shops conveniently located around the corner. [NY mag]
Crank it up to 11
“Another barroom brawl on the BB…hey, is that what BB really stands for?” -Commenter in the fray about point inflation over on eBob. Keep scrolling (post 242) to when Mark Squires compares Parker to Galileo! [eBob]
Related: “Lake Wobegon wines” [Dr. V]
Map of New York City wine shops [Dr. V]
On February 26th, 2008 at 2:51 pm ,Mike D wrote:
NYCers,
Looking for a low key resaurant this friday with a quality wine list. Any thoughts?
i was looking into http://lalanternacaffe.com/
Thank you,
Mike