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Layne’s Wine Gig TUESDAY NIGHT WINES By Layne V. Witherell Following our deep dive into the world of unattainable unicorn wines last month, I thought we could relax and get a bit more... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig Presents UNICORN WINE HUNT By Layne V. Witherell If you Google up “unicorn wine” you get not only a slew of mixed wisdom from the reigning sommelier god of the moment,... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig Presents A NEIGHBORHOOD GEM By Layne V. Witherell Ruby’s West End restaurant at 64 Pine Street sparkles and shines like a gem. Inside it resembles your mémère’s (grand... Read more
By Layne V. Witherell Among the zillions of job descriptions that I have had in this wild forty-plus year ride in the wine biz, one was as a CEO of a medium sized Virginia winery in the earl... Read more
VISIONARY ELEVATOR PITCH “Things are so because we wish them to be so.” -Louis Pasteur An elevator pitch summarizes a product or idea in the time of an elevator ride from thirty seconds to t... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig PresentsHoliday Wine Gift Guide By Layne V. Witherell For those of you who follow my stuff, you know that it can, at times, be straightforward, but at other times it c... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig – An improvisation on stage with wine As many followers of The West End News are aware, Blue at 650 A Congress Street is a venerable, awesome entertainment venue... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig THREE WINE LISTS By Layne V. Witherell A wine list can be as small as a single postcard folded into a plastic holder on a restaurant table. Or it could be the Bern’s T... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig OMG CHARDONNAY “Brands are for cereal and toilet paper. Not wine.” -Andrew Jefford, acclaimed British wine writer OMG Chardonnay! There are brands of chardonnay, but t... Read more
A California startup that taught a computer to ‘taste’ wine is using the technology to help winemakers improve their products and attract new customers. – CNN Business, May... Read more
