Can anyone tell me how to acquire my City of Portland Bicyclist Moral Superiority Certificate? I have already passed my mandatory Oregon State Self Righteous Indignation test and I am wondering what the next step is. The city lowered the required minimum number of corporate sponsors on my spandex riding uniform to 650 – so…
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Category Archives: Guy du Vin
My Very Own Natural Crankiness Movement
These days, there is nothing that can suck the life more quickly and more completely out of wine for me than having to sit and taste in a room full of sommeliers, wine writers, and wine bloggers. We really are a bunch of bloviating blow hards. Merry Christmas Gee – do I sound cranky? If…
Guy du Vin Thanksgiving Schmanksgiving Wine Guidance
I still like this cartoon that we used last year for our Thanksgiving newsletter. That’s probably a bad sign, because I tend to like the same bad jokes over and over – like Republicans and Democrats or taking food and wine pairing for Thanksgiving seriously. These are the weeks when we are inundated with newspaper…
Guy du Vin / Nel Centro Win Wine Award
Guy du Vin issued the following press release today. We are very proud of the work we have done for Nel Centro. It has been a privilege to work with Chef/Owner Dave Machado for as many years as we have. One of the things I love most about working with Dave is his deep sense…
A Pox on Both Your Houses
I assume that you read the Non-foodies food guide in A&E last Friday and are aware of this latest food kerfuffle. If you followed the comments posted at Oregon Live; Willamette Week Online; pdx.eater.com; etc, you are aware that the Portland food community is furious at being the butt of a few lame jokes from…
Should Bad People Drink Good Wine?
We have not heard from Mistress Jeannette for quite a while. She dropped off the face of the earth last year sometime and now when we ask what she’s been up to, her only reply is: “Subterranean rooms seem to bring out the worst in people.” So what does that mean? Anyway, here is another…
Evolutionary Downscale
Over the past few months, every time I post on Facebook or Twitter I begin to think that all I am doing is my small part in helping to push mankind back down the evolutionary scale. Ten minutes of the equivalent of watching the paint dry. I watched an interview of Aaron Sorkin the other…
Message in a Bottle
I was very fortunate to have Peter Weygandt, the highly respected wine importer, stop by Guy du Vin Intergalactic Headquarters recently. I had met Peter a few times in the past, but this was the first opportunity I had to speak with him at length and taste wine with him. Since 1987, Weygandt has been…
New Ways and Old Ways
For nearly as long as we have been in the wine business, there has been an ongoing debate about whether New World or Old World wine holds the aesthetic high ground of winemaking achievement. Generally, when we refer to Old World wines we are talking about wines from Europe. These wines tend to imply the…
Hot For You
So we were sipping a rather cheeky glass of Claude Lafond Reuilly the other evening, when we came across this article in the New York Times: “Holiday Inn to Use Humans as Bed Warmers File this travel tip under “creepy”. According to an article from Reuters, Holiday Inn will offer a trial human bed-warming service…