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I’ve seen it with my own eyes—the rose train full steam ahead. Like it or not, we’re all in the Rose Renaissance.

by Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) * * * Photo by Chuck Ferrin. * * * (Continued from Part 1) Americans, and a great deal of the people on Planet Earth, are interested in wine.  The total estimated retail wine sales for 2010 are $117 billion dollars.   Most of this money isn’t going [...]

by Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) * * *Photo: Gary Vaynerchuk/ Courtesy of South Beach Wine and Food Festival* * * I got the chance to see the-man-the-myth wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk at the 2010 South Beach Wine and Food Festival.  He hosted a seminar called “Pulse of the Wine World,” and I [...]

By Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) When Trina first asked me to write this article, I told her that I wanted to include some shots, because people in Miami go out to bars and clubs for New Year’s Eve (and any other possible celebration).  It’s a cultural thing.  Shots are the best drinks [...]

/ David Samayoa Getting me to go to a lecture about wine is pretty tough, unless you tell me that I’m going to be sitting next to Chuck Ferrin and he’ll be explaining everything in his usual knowledgeable, but irreverant way.  I may be the only one, but there’s the truth.  Once I start drinking [...]

*by Chuck Ferrin* **photo courtesy of WInes From Spain*** The Miami area is not always the easiest place to live.  Han Solo would have trouble with our traffic, and there’s no question that he would shoot Greedo first for a parking space.  Speaking of that fan-boy favorite scene, I can’t imagine a city more like [...]

by Chuck Ferrin Part 1 is here. 2004 Tasca d’Almerita Rosso del Conte You might be surprised when I say that the most memorable wine at the Grand Marchi tasting was not from the royal ranks of grapes such as nebbiolo or sangiovese, but the rustic nero d’avola from the Sicilian winery, Tasca D’Almerita.  I [...]

This is the first of the new  column, Miami Drink, written by new wine and spirits writer Chuck Ferrin.  Allow him to introduce himself: My real name is Charles Augustine Ferrin V.  That “V” is not fake; I am the fifth generation in my family with the exact same name.  I guess my people felt [...]

John DiRocco made refreshing kalamansi water, akin to lemonade. He grows the plant in his yard; it was a gift from his in-laws.  The kalamansi, also known as the calamondin, is popular in the Philippines.  It has an acidic citrus taste, like a cross between an orange and a lime.  John says he has seen [...]

* * *Cynthia Betancourt pours wine at a WWS class.* * * Cynthia Betancourt is the sommelier at Azul at Mandarin Oriental. This summer, she launched a semi-regular wine class for women at the Mandarin called “Wine, Women, and Song.” Ladies quaffed wine, made friends, tried samples from Clay Conley’s kitchen, and listened as Betancourt [...]