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Pork & Pinot @ Wine Authorities (2/13)

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Pinot and whole hog sandwiches from Coon Rock Farm, a local, sustainable, family owned farm, will be available this Saturday, February 13th from 12-4pm at Wine Authorities in Durham. Donation request is $5 cash per sandwich with wine and 100% of the money raised goes to the Food Bank of Durham. Canned and non-perishable [...]

be careful when pronouncing this wine!

Monday, January 11th, 2010

The guys at Wine Authorities are up to their silly video-making ways again and this time *yours truly* made it into the final cut! See me ask the very important question at 0:41. :)
Haven’t tried the wine yet, perhaps it’s coming up in a tasting soon?

Chateau B$*@&T from Wine Authorities on Vimeo.

why wine pairings matter

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Eric sent me the first article in an ongoing series by the head chef at Alinea restaurant in Chicago, Grant Achatz, about pairing wines and food. Subsequent articles touch on preparing offal (internal organs), pork belly, and wild turbot, what goes into preparing a dish and then how to pair that completed dish with wine. [...]

Pass the Porron Please video

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

The Wine Authorities have just released a new video featuring many store patrons trying to drink from the Spanish porron in Pass the Porron Please. My try didn’t make it into the video (sad face) but you can see Eric during one of the tastings at 1:38.

Pass the Wine Bong, err, the Porron Please [...]

trianglevino.com is 1 today!

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

It’s been one year since we started this little website about wine events in the Triangle and I hope all of our readers have been enjoying our site as much as we’ve enjoyed updating it.
We’ve been very fortunate to have made a lot of new friends, both online and in person, thanks to this website [...]

Wine Tasting and Mini Manicures @ Hillsborough Wine Company

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Stop by Hillsborough Wine Company on Friday for a special wine tasting and mini manicures from Go Natural Nails on Friday, July 31 from 5-7pm.
Kim from Go Natural Nails will give 10-minute mini manicures that include cut, file, shape and polish during the wine tasting. Mini manicure offer only good for new clients. Part [...]

“(We Always Promised You a) Rosé Garden” video

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Craig, Seth and Randy from the Wine Authorities in Durham presents (We Always Promised You a) Rosé Garden music video filmed at the Duke Botanical Gardens. It’s silly, of course, but their efforts to convert the masses to drink pink have raised over $1,600 for the Triangle chapter of Susan B. Komen for the Cure [...]

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