Be sure to catch Friday’s article from the NYTimes on the growth of urban wineries.  With land prices for vineyards in Napa and other places into the stratosphere, some passionate wine enthusiasts are taking matters into their own hands and opening urban wineries.  Bridge Urban Winery is a new one that I hadn’t heard of in Williamsburg and will be sure to make a visit to given my own predilection for wine-making.

I came across the following article today and thought I would share it, as I have a special place in my heart and palate for Petrus:

• The Mystery of Chateau Petrus: Why the World’s Most Expensive Red Wine Costs So Much

Better drinking through self-fermentation!

• The WinePodder - Eric Porres

This is an interesting way to describe wine… in pictures rather than words.

• Chateau Petrogasm

I wonder if this will steer people away from overly “earthy” wines….

• Heavy Metals Found in Wine (WebMD)

Oct. 29, 2008 — Red and white wines from most European nations carry potentially dangerous doses of at least seven heavy metals, U.K. researchers find.

A single glass of even the most contaminated wine isn’t poisonous. But drinking just one glass of wine a day — a common habit in Europe and the Americas — might be very hazardous indeed, calculate biomolecular scientist Declan P. Naughton, PhD, and Andrea Petroczi of Kingston University, London.