Author Archives: intoxreport

Sammy And Jack, Sammy and Jack; I’m Gonna Get Me Some Sammy And Jack

Posted on July 20, 2012 by intoxreport

The  best part of covering celebrity wines is that you don’t actually have to taste them to finagle columns from them thousands of words long. And do you know why?  Because, my droogies, there’s no need to taste a celebrity … Continue reading →

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Bœuf Bourguignon, Languedoc-Roussillon-Style—On The Hoof

Posted on July 18, 2012 by intoxreport

Not saying that they are all simply crackers pastoral folk in Languedoc-Roussillon, that hillbilly heaven bucolic land in the south of France, but here is their recipe for Bœuf Bourguignon, one of the most beloved classical dishes of French culinary … Continue reading →

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I Am Woman, Hear Me Pour: The International Women’s Wine Competition

Posted on July 18, 2012 by intoxreport

People are always winging on and on and on about things they hate—Monday mornings,  the Westboro Baptist Church, Rush Limbaugh, root canals, giant spiders in the basement, the U.S. military massacring innocent Iraqi civilians… Yeah, granted, all that stuff blows … Continue reading →

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Moscatos and Mosquitoes: Summer In The Motor City

Posted on July 7, 2012 by intoxreport

Whenever I travel this wide and wonderful land, wherever I go—from purple mountain to fruited plains, beneath spacious skies and through amber grain waves, from sea to shining sea—I tell people I’m from Detroit and the response I get is … Continue reading →

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Block No. 42: Penfolds’ Ostentatious Obscenity

Posted on July 5, 2012 by intoxreport

As a winery, Australian producer Penfolds has always tried to be all things to all people. In 1844, the cause was noble enough: Emigrated English physician Christopher Rawson Penfold planted vines around his Adelaide cottage and set out to produce … Continue reading →

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Are Traverse City Lambic Brewers Up Shit’s Kriek?

Posted on July 5, 2012 by intoxreport

Excuse me; I know I’m a bad man who in the afterlife will never make it out of the flaming tombs of Dante’s Sixth Circle, where I will lament forever with such heretics as Epicurus and Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti. But … Continue reading →

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This Festival, Michigan Is Chary, Not Cheery, Over Cherries

Posted on July 3, 2012 by intoxreport

Suppose this week was the Colorado Springs Ponderosa Pine Festival? Or the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes Glorious Nuptials Saturnalia? Or the Anderson Cooper: CNN’s Most Eligible Bachelor Gala ? The desolate pall of funk that would hang over such clambakes pales in … Continue reading →

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Louis Roederer Champagne: A Fifth For The Fourth

Posted on July 1, 2012 by intoxreport

Every year, somebody asks me to recommend a few wines with which to celebrate Independence Day, and every year my response is the same: E Pluribus Unum Now, here’s a question for you, Johnny Seventh Grade American History Scholar: You’ve … Continue reading →

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The World’s Most Macho Wine

Posted on June 30, 2012 by intoxreport

Who’d get your vote? Big-shouldered Barolo, meat-packer to the wine world?  Maybe a gamy Côte-Rôtie loaded with tobacco smells and a palate of bacon fat and leather?  How about a cabernet sauvignon from Ray’s Station, that silly Sonoma winery that … Continue reading →

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The Tim Atkin Diet: A Glass Of Burgundy, A Deep Breath, And A Handful Of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors

Posted on June 13, 2012 by intoxreport

When I was in college, they didn’t have today’s wide array of shopliftable psychopharmaceuticals—a.k.a. memory-improving ‘smart’ drugs.  If they had, I might have remembered in which pocket I’d stashed my cheat notes. These drugs, under such brand names as Phenserine, … Continue reading →

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