IT’S BEEN A BLAST!!!! TIME TO MOVE!!!!

 

Well it has been a long run here on the ol’ WordPress blog. HAd a lot of fun here at my second East Village Wine Geek home. But it is time to move once again. I have been doing this wine blog thing since 2004 and am still goin! Not only that but since I have started posting I have bought the restaurant/wine bar that I have worked at for so long and opened a neat little wine shop around the corner.

I love blogging and I will not stop.

And NOW:

You will be able to see all my videos going forward on our new

ALPHABET CITY WINE CO. WEBSITE!

Here I will be able to do videos about wine and actually be able to sell them to you instead of just rambling on.

So come on by and check us out. See what videos and geekiness we got going on!

See you at www.abcwinecompany.com

Five Days In Languedoc- Roussillon: Chateau Mas Neuf

I’M BACK!

Whoa! What an Easter week I had. Running two businesses while trying to celebrate the wonders of spring holidays took me for a ride!

But I am back in the saddle again and posting my new France video!

Our second visit in Costieres De Nimes was Chateau Mas Neuf to hang out with the incredibly passionate and refreshingly opinionated Luc Beaudet. His approach to wine is simple: let the wine make itself. he practices sustainable agriculture yet is not worried about certification. Here we have yet another winemaker coming from somewhere else and landing in the Languedoc to make the wines of his dreams. Join me as I pick his brain and get a really good look at his terroir.

Enjoy! Share! Love! Drink! Wine To The People!

Five Days In Languedoc- Roussillon: Chateau Lancyre

Our second stop in LPic St. Loup was Chateau Lancyre. The family bought the property in the seventies and began the challenging process of coverting the vineyards to sustainable agriculture. We had a chance to get down and dirty with the wine geekiness and saw some pretty amazing sights and tasted some great wines!

This one is a bit longer but the info is so fun it seems to take less time what it actually is…well for me at least:

Four Minutes of The East Village Wine Geek in France

I am in the middle of editing this monster of awesome footage from France but thought I would give a taste of what’s to come. ENJOY! SHARE!

Languedoc-Roussillon Part V: Roussillon

WOW!

We have made it! We have worked our way from the east along the Mediterranean to the southwestern most area of France. The small yet powerful wine region Roussillon.

This video is a breif overview of the wine region and upcoming videos will get into the deep tasty details.

Enjoy! Share!

Another Installment of Wine Geek Life: Andrew Drops Knowledge

This is how we roll! Sitting in swivle leather chairs spreading wine love to the customers. Check this out:

CHILLING RED WINE!

It is Spring and all we can think about is rose and crisp white wine. But we cannot forget the wonders of chilled red wine. There are just a couple things to take in consideratin when choosing one and I am here with some ideas and a quick second video as a side note to the most famous chilled wine of all. Check it:

And here is my lil side note vid:

Bringing it back to the basic wonderful wine love from back in the day!

Hello everyone.

I am in a bit of a pickle. I have working with The Food Network on their second website called Food2.com. It is an honor and  pleaasure to be collaborating with them and sharing the wine love on a somewhat larger scale.

But…

I love my little blog that I have had for almost eight years now, wandering through this amazing city, scouring the shelves of wine shops, dissecting wine and human historical parallels. I have been reminiscning about the days when I was opening the wine shop with David and the posts about the new wines we had at the shop. I was also sitting back pondering fond memories of buying In Vino and making a restuarant and wine bar, that I had been a part of and falling in love with since 2002, our own.

I don’t want THE EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK to go away. It started out as a title and become so much more.

So, this is what I’m gonna do. Whenever a new video is posted on Food2.com I am gonna post it on here. That way, y’all can click on over to the site via my blog. If you choose to subcribe to the Rss on Food2, that is totally cool.

Just thought I would throw all this out there.

Thanks for following my rantings and I hope you enjoy the continuation of wine love being spread across the world like a sweet, soft, berry jam on a hot, toasted piece of bakery-fresh bread.

Here is what you might have missed:

VINE TO GLASS: WINE MAKING 101

ONE WINE GEEK’S TAKE ON THE 100-POINT WINE SCORING SYSTEM

WINE IDEALS PART:I WINE BAR/RESTAURANT

COOKING WITH CHUCK WEBSTER: FENNEL THREE WAYS: PART I

THE EVIL APHID: PHYLLOXERA

Feel free to comment on my craziness on either the blog or Food2.com Food2 is a great project brought about by the FOOD NETWORK brining stimulating food and wine knowledge faster paced audience. Come share the love with tall the peeps:

Kelsey and Spike Cook

The Amateur Gourmet

Guerilling with Peery Lang and Jimmy Kimmel

Dorm Room Kitchen

See y’all soon on Food2.com

Weekend Wine Tasting Preview january 15th 2010 and Food2

We have a fun wine tasting tonight at the shop with Ivan from Aidil Imports. Check the video.

Also check out my new video on food2.com where I wax on and off about winemaking 101.

Friday Weekeend WIne Tasting Preview Jan. 8th, 2010

Tonight we are keepin it eclectic up in this little cozy shop, pouring wines from two completely places on the globe. Crazy!

Check It: