Jacksonville Riverside Wine Festival–Saturday November 19
November 2, 2011
The 9th Annual Riverside WineFest & 5 Points Fall Festival will be held Saturday, November 19, 2011.
Beginning at 6pm, the 1000 block of Park Street will be closed to traffic for you to enjoy the wines and live entertainment. Food venders will also be in the street and stores will be open extra hours for your enjoyment.
Taste over 300 wines from around the world and shop at participating merchants for great fall and holiday specials. Last year more than 1000 people enjoyed this event. Featuring wines from $6 to $60, all for a donation of $30, with a $5 coupon to use at participating merchants. Wines from California, Spain, Germany, Australia, France and more.
Sponsored by RAP, Riverside Liquors & 5 Points Merchants, this event is one of the best wine events in Jacksonville. If you missed last year’s event, don’t miss this one.
For more information call Riverside Liquors & Village Wine Shop @ 354-1001 or go to www.riversidewinefest.com
ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS
& RIVERSIDE AVONDALE PRESERVATION
Jacksonville Riverside Wine Festival
Why Do We Swirl Wine?
November 2, 2011Swirling wine: is it just to look cool, or does it actually serve a purpose?
Watch this video to find out…
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Marie Antoinette vs. Helen of Troy
November 1, 2011
The shape of the shallow and wide-mouthed Champagne glass is claimed by the French to be a tribute to the breast of Marie Antoinette, but the Greeks claim the glass is a tribute to the breast of Helen of Troy.
Wine on TV – Why it Won’t Work.
November 1, 2011
Do you ever wonder why there aren’t any TV shows (at least good ones) focused on wine? I do.
Food seems to hog all the limelight, and has amassed its fair share of personalities: Gordon Ramsey, Emeril Lagasse, Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Nigella Lawson, Delia Smith, Bobby Flay, Anthony Bourdain, and Jamie Oliver, to name just a few.
Who does wine have? No-one. Seriously. No-one.
But there has to be a reason why food is so popular on TV, leaving us winos to rely strictly on magazines and the Internet to get our wine fix. Here are just of a few of my reasons why wine hasn’t become more popular on “the box”:
Wine is Boring.
“WHHHHAAAAAATTTTTT!!!!! WINE IS BORING!?!?! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT!?!?!”
That woke you up! Ok, allow me to explain myself! Of the 2 wine-focused TV shows I’ve seen, they all seem to be talking to people the same way; namely; “…and tonight on Wine Talk, we’ll be drinking <insert Californian wine> made from <grape>, coming from <region>. It tastes like <insert ridiculously descriptive tasting notes here>, and I would give this wine a <insert points out of 100 rating>, because I’m on TV and therefore I know what I’m talking about….blah-blah-blah…”
The 1 or 2 late-night (they’re always on late) wine shows that I’ve happened to catch, the one thing they share in common was that they put me to sleep faster 4 glasses of Australian Shiraz….laced with horse tranquilizers.
It just seems that the people who put these “shows” together, clearly must have a lifetime subscription to the Wine Spectator, and try to get their creation as close as possible to the world’s most boring wine magazine. Wine doesn’t have to be boring, it’s just that television producers (for some reason) always approach talking about it the same way!
Wine is just plain difficult to talk about.
With cooking, you’re dealing with millions of different ingredients, and their possible combinations. With wine, you’ve got grape juice, in a bottle, and that’s it! Sure it might hail from different regions, be made from different grapes, and be put through different processes, but it can’t compete with food (from a diversity perspective). With a cooking show, you can throw ingredients around a-bit, have multiple things going at once, have flames jumping around while you flambe, peeling-chopping-dicing-basting-sauteing-grilling etc. With wine; it’s a wine glass, a bottle, and a corkscrew. That’s it. There’s very little to work with!
Posted in News | Tagged Cooking show, Gary Vaynerchuk, Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, Rachael Ray, Why no Wine on TV, Wine on Television, Wine on TV, Wine TV Show | 2 Comments //Child Cancer Fund Charity Event at One Ocean Resort
November 1, 2011
FOOD:
ONE OCEAN RESORT – Executive Chef Ted Peters
WINE TASTINGS:
Over 150 wines from around the world
OPPORTUNITY:
Help us help local children and their families through the challenges of childhood cancer.
First Coast Premier Wine Extravaganza presented by PREMIER BEVERAGE COMPANY
benefiting the Child Cancer Fund at One Ocean
Sunday, November 6, 2011
3pm to 6pm
$100 Admission
Ticket includes souvenir wine glass, food, and wine tastings
PURCHASE TICKETS AT:
www.childcancerfund.org
For further information contact Child Cancer Fund at 904-396-4223
Posted in Events | Tagged Jacksonville, One Ocean, Premier Beverage | Leave a comment //Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis in World of Wine
October 31, 2011Old school English comedy duo Punt and Dennis, discussing the finer points of wine.
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