Category Archives: tasting

Tasting Note: White Birch Brewing Belgian Style Pale Ale

By Remy Charest | Published: March 18, 2011
So, what do you get when you head to a cheese shop in South Boston, to get what you need for the evening’s pasta? Why, you get New Hampshire beer, of course. More specifically, during my last trip to see friends in Boston, we went to South End Formaggio, a fantastic cheese and meat shop – [...]
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This post is pointless – and so is the rest of this blog

By Remy Charest | Published: October 9, 2010
I don’t believe in points. That’s why there are no points or other ways of scoring in my tasting notes. I think they’re more confusing than helpful, and that their reliability is so low as to render them useless. That’s why I never used any scoring system for reviewing wines on this blog, and never will. One [...]
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Tasting Note: 2008 Altostratus Pinot Noir, Black Cloud Wine

By Remy Charest | Published: August 23, 2010
The people you meet on Twitter… One of the most interesting has certainly been Bradley Cooper, the man formerly known as Bradinator, who now tweets entirely from his BlackCloudWine account, the name of his most recent and most personal winemaking venture. Bradley is the winemaker at Township 7, a winery
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Live wine blogging from Walla Walla, take two: the red wines

By Remy Charest | Published: June 26, 2010
Today, the Wine Bloggers Conference was more focused on the terroir of Walla Walla: the geology, the producers, the varieties, the soils, the climate, the combination of things that are giving shape to this wine region. The well-organized winery visits, with three distinct stops for each group of bloggers, were very successful and allowed a [...]
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Live white wine blogging from Walla Walla, Washington

By Remy Charest | Published: June 25, 2010
The American Wine Bloggers Conference has just begun on a strong note: good tacos from the Walla Walla taco trucks, good tastings, meeting with fellow bloggers (many who I only knew online), an interesting keynote speech from Steve Heimoff, the Wine Blog Awards, and good breakout sessions on blogging, in various fashions. Twitter is on [...]
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