The Wineauxs

The Carousel Bar is somewhat well known - the patrons at the bar rotate, the bar and room itself do not. I'd call it more disorienting ...

Alright, Acme. No wait, but this place was packed at 3 pm on a Monday...crazy! Our waiter/bartender/shucker was so surly you couldn't...

The Old New Orleans Rum Distillery (which may or may not be known as "Celebration Distillation") is a bit out of town, a roughly $...

Mila....oh, sweet Mila. New Orleans is known for food, here's why - food, service, wine, all phenomenal. The sort of place that makes...

So it's 350 degrees, humidity is 900%, we walk to Cafe du Monde, I spot it from a distance and there's no one sitting in the outdoor...

We skipped dessert at Stella! and figured we'd grab something savory elsewhere. I knew we were going to hit both Acme and Felix but fig...

A hurricane. I don't get it. Fran doesn't get it. If you "can't taste the alcohol" then you were probably drunk befo...

Stella! is a restaurant that comes highly recommended from every angle - personal word of mouth, that crazy thing called the internet, guide...

A Wisconsin Pinot Noir - yep. Who knew? Fifteen bucks with some distribution in Illinois, I snagged this at Binny's. Cherry cola and a...

This retails for $65 and has been on the wine rack for quite a while. What better way to celebrate the birth of America than with a French ...

I hate to admit it, but I've come around to the Whole Foods thing. It's hard for me to drop a grudge, but I'll look past the sn...

Dinner reservations at the Rick Bayless's high end place Topolobampo have been fairly difficult to come by. How difficult? In June I t...

Woot Cellars. If you don't know them, you can find them at wine.woot.com . Most of the time they sell discounted wine (only one item e...

Not many posts lately - there are quite a few in the pipeline. Blame beer and gin. We had tentatively planned a run up to Traverse City thi...

This goes for fourteen bones through the winery. A "whole cluster" Riesling means bunches of grapes - stems and all are pressed w...

The Tweet and Taste Michigan for the Old Mission Peninsula was a success and a half. The seven reviews below this are writeups for the wine ...

This retails for $18.50 at the winery and that is a 375ml bottle. I will say this right off the bat - I find cherry wine next to impossible...

This retails for $30 at the winery. It's a blend of Cab Franc, Merlot, and Pinot Noir. A trashy sort of nose with a good dash of cherry...

This retails for $40 through the winery. It's a blend of mostly Cab Franc with Merlot and a bit of Cab Sauv. Plum, tobacco, and cedar o...

This retails for $15 through the winery. White tea and floral qualities on the nose. In a word - floral. In two words - herbal tea. In thr...