Keeping It Fresh: Wine + Creativity

Is it hard to write about wine every day in the Boston area?

Hmmm.

It is almost as hard as it is to drink wine every day.

In other words, not very.

That's because -- no matter how hot it is outside or how routine our day-to-day lives seem to get -- Boston restaurateurs (and their marketing minds) have always got their thinking caps on.

They get creative. They throw curveballs. And, if they really want to get us going, it won't cost us the world.

Here are a few of the more unique ideas to cross our desk lately. Click through. Check them out. Notice what sparks your interest.

Then go and toast creativity -- theirs and your own.


WHAT: Sweep Out the Wine Cellar event
WHERE: Troquet, 140 Boylston Street, Boston

WHAT: Sicilian Wine Barbeque
WHERE: Rialto, 1 Bennett Street, Harvard Square

WHAT: Late Night Eats, until 1:30 a.m., between $5 and $7
WHERE: Eastern Standard, 528 Commonwealth Avenue, Kenmore Square

WHAT: Backyard BBQ Wines + Dinner
WHERE: Ashmont Grill, 555 Talbot Avenue, Dorchester

WHAT: Cape Cod Restaurant Week
WHAT: Sandwich Restaurant Week

WHAT: Bastille Day Dinner with live French & jazz music
WHERE: Chloe American Bistro, 23 Main Street, Hudson


DAILY TIDBIT:

The scope of the subject of wine is never ending, so many other subjects lie within its boundaries... It embraces botany, chemistry, agriculture, carpentry, economics -- any number of sciences whose names I do not even know. It leads you up paths of knowledge and by-ways of experience you would never glimpse without it.

-- Hugh Johnson