6 | This one's for the techie
oenophile: the Coravin Model Eleven ($999.95) wine opener/preserver, just released.
The Philippines's consul general to the Eurasian country was trying to enlighten this pretentious
oenophile about the origin of the alcoholic beverage, while his interviewer sipped away a cheap version of a vinegary kind.
Billed as "the essential guide to the wines, producers, and terroirs of the iconic region," this is an armchair
oenophile's delight.
The wine menu is an
oenophile's dream, offering Sardinian imports you might struggle to find in other Italian restaurants.
He will be one of the new exhibitors at the annual six-day Winter Art & Antiques Fair at London Olympia (see panel) and in addition to a preview of those he has for sale, he offered to explain the appeal of the
oenophile's essential tool.
Dining with George is always a treat, because everyone else can be confident that our resident
oenophile actually knows the wine list.
(You can send at least one of them a message on Facebook) Even having spent most of my life here, I still return from trips and exit the Vancouver International Airport anticipating my first deep inhalation, like an
oenophile might anticipate a favourite wine, entranced by accents real and half-imagined: barnacles, saline notes and a whiff of fish.
THE PROTAGONIST and first-person chronicler of the British writer Ian McEwan's new novel Nutshell is quite the worldly fellow: eloquent, erudite, cultured, an
oenophile, a rueful student of humanity's follies.
This enoteca offers a wide range of Portuguese wines, each carefully chosen by
oenophile experts (notably JoEuo Paulo Martins, author of the esteemed Wines of Portugal guides).
Thus in their work together we see settings and locations that are all too familiar in their lack of fussiness and pretense: a drab Midwestern living room in "Nebraska" with overstuffed chairs and wood-paneled walls; sprawling, un-landscaped lawns in the Honolulu suburbs of "The Descendants" with a goat or a rooster in the frame; a sterile-looking McMansion in L.A.'s Pacific Palisades near the beginning of "Sideways," or the sad, over-lit fast-food burger joint toward the end where Paul Giamatti's woebegone
oenophile drinks his prized bottle of 1961 Cheval Blanc out of a Styrofoam cup.
A sight to warm the heart of any
oenophile, it has a temperature-controlled storage area, a place to drink and a place to dine, all withion cork-popping distance.