A Navigation Tool for Dining in DC
Picture: Wall of wine and market counter at Cork. In our continuing search for great wine shops around Washington, D.C., we flag two places that may justify a trip to 14th Street during the day. It is an irony that Cork serves food, but Cork & Fork does not. It’s probably too late to swap […]
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Picture: The sprawling selection at Weygandt Wines We continue our hunt for great wine shops in D.C. This week: Cleveland Park. NOTE: Weygandt closed at the end of April 2024. Weygandt Wines – This is a retail shop that features wines imported by the parent company. The heart of the inventory is French, though it […]
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Picture: Packed in tight Another in a series of posts about DC’s best wine shops. Connecticut Ave Wine and Liquor – This store goes by a few different names: We’ve heard it called Connecticut (Ave), that place by the Dupont Metro, and Bobby’s. Bobby is the owner, taking over the shop over a decade ago. […]
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Image: From Brenna Quigley There are millions of years between the geology depicted on the left and the naming of appellations on the right, but the overlap is not a coincidence. Images from Wikipedia and Wine Folly. To understand the connection, listen to Levi Dalton’s podcast with Brenna Quigley. It was one of the most […]
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DC has a lot of liquor stores. It has fewer wine shops. It has a few big places like MacArthur, Calvert Woodley and Scheiders that serve big chunks of the District. What is harder to find are wine shops that either carve out a niche or do right by their neighborhood or both. There are […]
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Photo: Bodegas Ysios Winery. Guardia, Spain. designed by Santiago Calatrava. via Modlar.com I continue to mine Terry Theise’s Reading between the Wines for insights. The idea of wine having a “structure” seems counterintuitive. In physical form it is liquid. On the tongue, it is fleeting. This quote from Theise and another from Goethe seem like […]
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Picture: Sonoma “Or we can claim this world of places. We can claim the love that lives in hills and vines, in trees and birds and smells, in buildings and ovens and human eyes, of everything in our world that makes itself at home and calls on us to do the same. The value of […]
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Picture: 2015 Sancerre Rouge at Chloe – an enjoyable surprise. “Vintages vary, at least in many of the Old World’s uncertain climates, and the crisp wine you liked this year could be voluptuous wine next year. Different growers with adjacent parcels in the same vineyard will make different-tasting wine. It isn’t total chaos – there […]
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