Recent content by skirsch

Combine a nice wine list and lots of live local jazz at Motor City Wine on Michigan Avenue in Corktown. Think way laid back, modest prices, with patio, and no cover. And free parking. Might be hard to grasp if you're coming from a big East or West Coast city.

Hirsch Selection Small Batch Reserve. Which I'm becoming quite a fan of. Each of the Rhones was a beauty in its own fashion. The Chave was charming and refined, showing no evidence that it will reward further cellaring. The Verset reflected its Cornasy nature, but any early...

From the Department of Redundancy Department?

I think the photo distracts from your post, Todd.

I delicately plucked it out of my anus. No, No, I mean, it was the voice of the people that I heard.

My sense is that the view from the Third World, and working class America, is that spending more than $50 on a bottle of wine--except for some well-aged bottles of Huet or the odd bottle of Cote Rotie--is obscene, insensitive, and a cultural slap in the face to struggling people everywhere.

It's not as bad as it sounds. We (in Michigan) are still permitted to invite people to our homes as long as the primary purpose of the visit is not the consumption of alcoholic beverages. If imbibing is a secondary purpose, and we can demonstrate that, we are within the law as it's presently...

That's a lie. Otherwise, great post, Putnam.