This just came through the submission wire: On Tuesday, June 23rd,  for $20, Vintage Irving (located at 118A East 15th Street in Union Square) will guide guests through a tasting of 20 wines that are ideal for summer imbibing. Learn about the wines (and the vineyards they come from), and then learn what they are best paired [...]

Follow this itinerary and get drunk and fed for free tonight. Start out at Citrine Lounge (21st b./t 5th and 6th) at 6pm where you’ll get 2 hours of free open bar and free food from Markt in celebration of Citrine’s new weekly happy hour party, PRE. At 7:30pm head over to Union Square Wines (4th [...]

“Wine Down” held its first wine tasting party at Astra in Midtown (979 3rd Ave b/t 58th and 59th) back in April and we hear it was alot of fun. Now they’re throwing the first summer wine party on Wednesday, June 10 from 7-10pm. The “Wine Down” parties are hosted by Michael Green, the wine and spirits consultant for [...]

There are more wine dinners, special tastings and events tonight than we’ve seen in a long time. Check ‘em out: Gina DePalma Fundraiser at Co.: Jim Lahey, Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich invite you to eat well and support a special and very worthy cause. Jim Lahey of Co. will prepare many of his signature [...]

Andy and I headed to City Winery (155 Varick at Vandam) on Sunday with our friends Nathania and Richard.  After grabbing a pre-tasting drink at Ear Inn (one of the coolest old-time bars I’ve been to- move over McSorley’s), we headed to the Mendoza Crush party.  It had been postponed due to the grapes’ boat being [...]

From the submission wire, we learn that The Grape Brokers at Marc Forgione is hosting a Three-Course Domaine du Vieux-Telegraphe Vertical Dinner at Marc Forgione this Wednesday. This is one for our “If Money Were No Object” list of events. Tickets are $185/ $350 per couple (all-inclusive)and are limited to 36 seats. For tickets or more [...]

We have recently discovered Portuguese wines and have been greatly impressed with this mostly undiscovered (at least for Americans) wine region.  They are producing some really top quality, age-worthy wines that would rival some of neighboring Spain’s great wines.  We also love the fact that there are amazing value wines coming out of Portugal – including [...]

We just heard about a new monthly wine tasting party called “Wine Down.”  The first one’s coming up Wednesday April 22nd at 7pm and it’s being held on the spacious fourteenth floor terrace at Charlie Palmer’s Astra in Midtown (979 3rd Ave b/t 58th and 59th). The “Wine Down” parties are being hosted by Michael Green, the wine [...]

You can add Lelabar to the list of reasons we want to move to the West Village.  Andy and I visited this homey, charming wine bar located at Hudson and Leroy this past Sunday…and we didn’t want to leave.  We were at Lelabar for one of their Sunday afternoon guided sommelier tastings.  It was an Austrian [...]

On February 11, 2009, stop by Vintage Irving at 7:00pm for a Dessert Wine & Bubbly Tasting. We’ll be popping open the bubbly for you, and tasting a selection of our sparkling champagnes from the “champagne region of France.” And for all of the sweet-tooths out there, we are bringing out our stash of Dessert [...]

After an all-you-can-drink brunch at Il Bastardo, we headed over yesterday afternoon to the Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel for the Cochon 555 event. Cochon 555 is a culinary event featuring 5 chefs, 5 heritage pigs and 5 winemakers with the chefs squaring off in a friendly competition for a good cause. It started with [...]

There are so many food, wine and beer events this time of year it’s getting pretty hard to select which ones to attend. Here’s what we have on tap for this weekend, as well as a couple of events and tastings we can’t unfortunately get to: Friday Night  – Dinner with friends at The John [...]

Just saw that Astor Wines & Spirits (Lafayette @ E. 4th) is offering some INSANE deals on some of its best-selling wines of 2008. We’re talkin’ Two-Buck Chuck prices folks. A tempranillo for $4.99! An Argentinian red for $3.99!  A prosecco for $4.99! The best part is that you can sample them all at a free tasting [...]

We had  a pretty nice (and very spontaneous) little Saturday…first we went to a free wine tasting of Long Island wines at Union Square Wines where we spoke with Kareem Massoud, Paumanok Vineyard’s winemaker, and tried Paumanok’s 2007 Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc, as well as its 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon and Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc (delicious [...]

Here are some free wine tastings around the city this week: Wednesday: Crush Wine presents Ruinart Blanc de Blancs and Rose Tasting Event Date: 10/22/2008 You must RSVP to one of the four available time slots. RSVP to events@crushwineco.com Include your preference for one of the 4 following time slots: * 6:00 – 6:30 * 6:30 – [...]