The Modern Gentleman's Blog

Last Friday wine lovers enjoyed a tasting at the new Wingtip in our unfinished-but-rapidly-progressing wine room. We were lucky enough to host two stellar Dry Creek Valley producers: Unti and Ridge. By all accounts, the event was a rousing success. Cheers!

The New York Times Book of Wine Howard G. Goldberg, Editor Sterling Epicure   This hefty tome represents nearly 40 years of wine writing from The New York Times. Though the book weighs in at about 550 pages, we  are dealing with news clippings, so the knowledge is delivered in chapters of sip-sized articles–and there [...]

I have no idea how to chop wood. I don’t know how to check the oil on newfangled cars. But every time I saber a bottle of champagne, the crowd goes wild. “It must take incredible skill and practice to execute that”, they must think. In reality, it’s very easy. In 90 seconds –assuming you [...]

Wingtip is about to introduce a high-end Cheese Plate this week that features the Berti Italian Cutlery 7-Piece Cheese Knife Set, so cheese has been on my mind. Sunday brunch across the street from a bookstore led to a purchase of Culture magazine (which is about cheese, not culture!). That led to a subscription for [...]

The last thing I want to do in this economy is suggest that anyone should lose their job, even if they were responsible for creating something like this. So instead, whomever decided to DISCONTINUE it should get a promotion. There’s so much wrong with this product, I don’t know where to begin. This is not [...]

Ok, no he didn’t. Well, he may have, actually. But probably not. Day 3 in Paris, and I’m shocked it took us that long to pay a visit to the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz Paris. Aside from being a favorite haunt of Ernest Hemingway, and being tucked away toward the back of the Ritz, [...]

I would venture to guess that I have spent thousands of hours of my life in a room with a Periodic Table of the elements. Science classes since at least junior high, if not earlier, and of course all of high school. I was never particularly fond of science (or math for that matter), but [...]

Since it’s the third Sunday of the month, it’s the day I finally get to read the Journal of Agriculture & Food Chemistry*. In it is an article that flies in the face of the way champers is often poured at bars & restaurants. According to "scientists", the superior way to pour champagne is to [...]

This Thursday night, JAQK Cellars will be pouring the second release of all 8 of their poker-inspired wine labels (yes, that includes their top-of-the-line High Roller). As if that wasn’t enough, the event will take place at our new lounge — Wingtip — just a block and a half from our store. A ticket price [...]

This Thursday evening, loyal readers of On The Fly’s blog are welcome to join us at our new space, WINGTIP, for a special tasting of Bowmore Islay Single Malts.  In addition to being one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland, Bowmore is also one of the few distilleries to hand-turn their own floor malted barley. [...]