Virtual Wine Event: Summertime Slayers ☀️ May 13th

My first virtual wine event filled up to Zoom’s 100-seat capacity in 90 minutes, so I’m doing more: “Summertime Slayers ☀️” (plus Q&A) Wed., May 13th (8pm ET/5pm PT). Like before, expect this event to fill up fast 🐇, so please register at this link if you are interested.

Tickets are at the pandemic-friendly price of $15/each and if you choose to order the wines, they will ship fast and are in sufficient quantities at Wine.com.

Virtual Wine Event

For a full listing or my virtual wine events, click here.

Distillery Hand Sanitizer | Oldman’s Wine for Your Bunker #20

Have you invested in your bottle of distillery hand sanitizer yet?

Support your local distillery, and help flatten the curve, by investing in bottles of hand sanitizer that over 600 distilleries are now making for the pandemic. You’ll be showing it to future generations as an artifact of this crazy time. Featured bottle: Kings County Distillery glass flask hand sanitizer ✨ (Brooklyn, NY).

Here is a comprehensive, national list of distilleries making their own hand sanitizer.

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Best Ways to Smuggle Wine Anywhere

Whether it’s a concert, a matinee, or in the cab on the way, the art of the smuggle is a necessary skill, and one I learned during a stay at one of the world’s most serious spas. Canyon Ranch in Massachusetts bans alcohol in the dining room, which seems to me an almost cruel policy for what was meant to be a relaxing weekend. Isn’t wine the secret to why all those centenarians on the Italian island of Sardinia live so long?

To rectify matters, I spirited into the spa several bottles of wine, which are allowed only in guest rooms. Using a small funnel, I then transferred the wine into a rinsed-out Tetra Pak for juice or coconut water. This cardboard vessel was perfect for smuggling wine at dinner, not only for its opacity but also for its incredible ability to hold two-thirds of a standard wine bottle. Its aluminum shell helped keep the wine chilled, and the “grape berry” label was the perfect cover in case any of the red wine spilled out.

Tetra Paks are effective for their size and eco-friendliness, but feel free to perform your covert wine operations with shampoo bottles, or for a classic ruse, a tinted plastic soda bottle. You can buy these, as I do, online and in bulk, in case my guests want to enjoy their last precious drops of wine on the way out of my place.

Check out the video of my covert wine smuggling activities here, and tweet @MarkOldman your favorite bootlegging vessels.

Learn hundreds more wine secrets and strategies in my new book, How to Drink Like a Billionaire: Mastering Wine with Joie de Vivre (Regan Arts/Phaidon).

Wine News Network BREAKING: Mark Oldman to Court for Carrying Unloaded Bordeaux

Wine News Network BREAKING: Mark Oldman to Court for Carrying Unloaded Bordeaux

Amid cries of “Free Oldman” (and “Oldman Free”) from a throng of French supporters, Mark Oldman has his day in criminal court for carrying an empty, 40-year-old bottle of Chateau Palmer.

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For more on the liberation of Oldman (including the actual court transcript), see the “Free Oldman” Coverage Center