Skybar Wine Chill Drops

Skybar Wine Chill Drops

Simply pop the Skybar Wine Chill Drops into the freezer and add them to your glass of wine to chill it to the perfect drinking temperature!

Why wait? The Skybar™ Wine Chill Drop cools a single glass of wine to the ideal serving temperature up to 20 times faster than your refrigerator can chill a full bottle. Now when you get home from the wine shop, you don’t have to wait hours for that special bottle of wine to chill in the fridge. Enjoy a glass right away!

The sleek attractive shape of the Wine Chill Drops adds a stylish note to your table.

• 2 Wine Chill Drops and two holders in each package
• Chills a single glass of wine up to 20 times faster than the refrigerator
• Fits wine glasses and Champagne flutes
• Sleek polished stainless steel finish with convenient holders to protect table surfaces
• Chills red wine in 90 seconds and white wine in 8 minutes

Robert Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide

The other day I picked up a copy of Robert Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide. It has a listing of most readily available wines as well as some of the harder to find recent vintages. While it doesn't give much information on each wine, it is a fairly comprehensive collection of ratings, price averages, and basic info. It is a good book to pick up if you're looking for new wines to try. I would definitely recommend picking up a copy, even if it is an older edition.

Robert Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide

From Amazon.com...

"Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the eagerly anticipated seventh edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines. In every way, this edition bears out Parker's stated goal: "To make you a more formidable, more confident wine buyer by providing you with sufficient insider's information to permit the wisest possible choice when you make a wine-buying decision." 

Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine's pedigree, Parker's eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information. 

The latest edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the Los Angeles Times calls 'the most powerful critic of any kind.'"

Bottle Shock, Moscato d' Asti, Apothic Red, and Pizza. Win.

So last night the girlfriend and I decided to have a few (several) glasses of wine, some pizza and watch a couple movies. She had never seen Bottle Shock before and I consider this a complete travesty for a supposed wine lover, so I picked it up. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Its a great movie about the Judgement of Paris, the 1976 blind tasting held in Paris (Hence the name) that put some of the best French wines against some of the best new wines coming out of California. At the time, France was considered the Juggernaut of wine and nobody thought anything from the USA could come close to matching them. You might be surprised at the results.

Bottle Shock Movie

A friend of mine had given me a couple of bottles of wine for my birthday so I decided to try them while we ate and watched the movies. The first one was Apothic Red. I'd had it before, and enjoyed it, so it was nice to be able to give it another try. It is a blended wine so it won't be for everyone but I really enjoy it as a "table" wine. It isn't too bold or complex, just a simple, very slightly sweet red.

Apothic Red - Winemaker's Blend 2009

The girlfriend started off with her usual, Umberto Fiore Moscato d' Asti. I'd never had it until recently but it quickly became one of my favorites. It is a very light and crisp wine. I'm normally not a big fan of sparkling wines but this one is just really, really nice. Very fruity and not overly sweet, which is usually my main complaint with white and sparkling wines.

Umberto Fiore - Moscato d' Asti

When my bottle of Apothic Red was gone, not wanting to drink all of the Umberto Fiore, I decided to try the other bottle my friend had gotten me. Il Conte Moscato d' Asti. This one is much sweeter than the Umberto Fiore and doesn't have as much carbonation. It still isn't TOO sweet though. It is a really nice d' Asti as well. The girlfriend mentioned that she picked up a lot more of a pear note from this one compared to the Fiore. I didn't detect too much pear but I did get a bit of a smooth pineapple note. It is definitely worth another try. I'm going to try to pick up another bottle soon.

Il Conte - Moscato d' Asti

All in all it was a really nice night. We watched Bottle Shock and A Walk in the Clouds and knocked out almost 3 bottles of wine with our pizza. It was a pretty lazy evening. I'm really hoping to do it again sometime soon.