http://redteeth.com/evwgblog East Village Wine Geek (EVWG) on Wine, Food and Life Wed, 09 May 2007 15:12:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow! Everything is crazy right now. I have slipped into a world that was probably inevitable anyway. I have been serious into wine for over four years now going from heavy interest to true enthusiast to obsessive passionate into pure geekiness. I love wine and have decided to explore it ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/05/09/why-not/ I would like to take a break for a moment from the Cali wines and talk about a bottle that was given to me recently as a gift. I will say up front that this wine is over twenty bucks. But I just have to talk about it. And it ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/04/25/uruguay-and-tannat-have-a-wonderful-relationship/ A very good friend of fellow wine geek and mine is also an amazing Jazz musician. His name is Patrick Wolff and, on a mean, methodic and focused sax heads the Patrick Wolff Trio, along with Chris Van Voorst on a soulful bass and Yujiro Nakamura on some slammin-ist drums. ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/04/19/the-patrick-wolff-trio-and-zebulon-on-a-saturday-night-in-bklyn/ Rambling through the Santa Cruz mountains on a beautiful, sunny weekend afternoon, my wife and I decided to hit at a few vineyards before heading north for a couple of days in San Francisco. The scenery up there is, at times, breathtaking. You are slowly (and ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/04/19/santa-cruz-ramblin-and-savannah-chenelle-pinot-noir/ Santa Cruz is a beautiful place. I don’t really consider it a city as much I consider it a town. It just has that feel, a town-feel. It isn’t huge but it is a nice size. Most importantly tough it’s the vibe. This town feels like a day at ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/04/13/santa-cruz-and-beauregard-vineyards/ Well, it didn’t happen. I had these ideas of writing posts while in the moment, on the road after a day of wine tasting. Sitting down as the sun set in whatever area of the state I was in and pondering the characteristics of whatever my wife and I had ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/04/11/its-good-to-be-back-cali-was-amazing/ I am a little embarrassed but this is my first post in about a month. I have spent the last three or four weeks without a computer. Macs are the most stable computers on the market but even the mighty Mac slows to a roll every once in a ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/03/28/man-is-it-good-to-be-back/ This is my new home. Like any other new home it has to be re-painted and requires a few customized repairs to make it…just right. What you see surrounding these words is a temporary template that will serve as my colors that get me through the transition process. I will ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/02/27/decorating-my-new-home-and-talkin-ventana/ Ladies and gentlemen The East Village Wine Geek is moving. Yes, I have thought about it. Freaked out about it, pondered it and hammered it out. Blogger.com is cool and all but I want to keep the community of wine a growing entity. Let’s make this thing huge. Blogs made ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/02/14/the-east-village-wine-geek-has-found-a-new-home/ Blogs are great. Bloggers are people like you and me with other things going on in their lives, who can’t help but tell the world about their passions. I love writing about wine, food and life and wrapping stories around tasting notes. Since this web log thing has caught on, ... http://redteeth.com/evwgblog/2007/02/04/love-some-of-that-food-candy/