CAMDEN VALLEY ROAD runs east-west from Sandgate, Vermont across the state line into Washington County, New York. It’s a winding, two-lane country road with hardly any traffic on it, and it’s partially for this reason that my wife and I walk it every day when staying nearby. The other reason is that it’s exceptionally picturesque –…
All posts in August 2012
Gimme air!
Decanting wine conjures visions of cobwebby bottles, guttering candles, crystal goblets, and white-gloved butlers. Performed primarily to relieve wines of sediment, the technique that’s known as the soft decant once involved all this and a good deal of practiced skill to boot. Today the soft decant is less frequently seen, since (1) we tend to…
Field blends have something to say, but is anyone listening?
The hip, cozy watering hole known as Backbar occupies a back room of Journeyman restaurant in the scrappy Boston satellite city of Somerville. With its usual team of cocktail jockeys off for a few days of social muddling at a trade event, GM Meg Grady-Troia filled the void with a couple of somm-for-a-night guests. Sunday…