“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – April 12th

Eric Mihan came back on Downtown for another edition of “Message in the Bottle”.  This time Eric veered off of wine and brought in a nitro stout beer to sample as part of his month long discussion of food pairing with alcohol.  Mihan talked about the beer and how it also complimented the brownies that […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – April 5th

Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine and Cheese and Crossroads Beverage Company joined Downtown to talk about wine pairings and food on this edition of “Message in the Bottle”.  Mihan wrapped up closures last month and took us into the realm of wines you can pair with food this time around for the month of April.  […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – March 29th

Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine & Cheese and Crossroad Beverage Company returned for another edition of “Message In The Bottle”.  Mihan wrapped up his look into closures for the month and talked about one from Australia called a zork.  He said that the zork closure is made with a synthetic stopper that has what equates […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – March 22nd

Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine and Cheese and Crossroads Beverage Company joined Downtown for another edition of “Message In The Bottle”. He continued his conversations for the month about wine bottle closures and talked about synthetic corks for those who still enjoy the pop of opening a wine, but don’t want to deal with real […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – March 15th

Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine and Cheese and Crossroads Beverage Company joined Downtown for another edition of “Message In The Bottle”. He continued his conversations for the month about wine bottle closures and brought in a wine with a glass one this time around. Mihan spoke about the glass closure and the elegance of the […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – March 8th

  Eric Mihan joined Downtown again for another edition of “Message In The Bottle”, continuing his conversations this month about closures. He spoke about some of the stigma still attached to the ‘dreaded’ screw cap and compared it to cork that could affect the wine and contaminate it. Eric brought in a Riesling by August […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – March 1st

Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine & Cheese and the Crossroads Beverage Company joined Stack and Ryan for another edition of “Message In The Bottle”. Tuesday began a new month, and with it also brought a new topic for Eric to talk about on the segment. This time around we discussed wine closures and learned more […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – February 23rd

Eric Mihan joined Downtown for another edition of “Message In The Bottle” and he continued his look into the purity of wines to wrap up the month of February. Eric brought in two wines this time to taste and talk about. They were a wine from Chateau Saint Cyrgues and a Riesling from Badger Mountain. […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – February 16th

Eric Mihan joined Downtown for another edition of “Message In The Bottle” and this time he continued his look into the purity of wines. Eric brought in a wine from Argentina called Carte Reservante. He spoke on the wine that is produced in Argentina and said that they really have come into the wine market […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – February 9th

  Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine & Cheese and the Crossroads Beverage Company joined Downtown to talk about another wine. Before we went into the wine for the week, Eric answered a listener question about if there is any difference in a wine from an older and larger vineyard. This week we sampled a Spanish […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – February 2nd

Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine & Cheese and Crossroads Beverage Company joined Downtown for this week’s edition of “Message In The Bottle”. Eric talked about drinking healthier with wine as we enter the month of February and we tried a wine by Pata Negra called Ribera del Duero from Spain. Eric said that the grapes […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – January 26th

Eric Mihan joined Rich Kimball again this Tuesday for another edition of “Message In The Bottle” on Downtown. In this edition of the segment Eric spoke about the final bottle of the month in our category of affordable wines on a budget, this time heading to a red wine based out of Spain called Honoro […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – January 19th

  Eric Mihan joined Rich for another edition of “Message In The Bottle” segment on Tuesday afternoon. Eric spoke about corks compared to caps the twist off that used to garner ire from wine connoisseurs and told us why the latter is actually better for the wine in general.  They both also sampled a bottle […]


“Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan – January 12th

  Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine & Cheese and Crossroads Beverage Company joined Downtown on Tuesday afternoon for another edition of “Message In The Bottle”. This week Eric answered a listener question and discussed value wines. Eric and Rich enjoyed a Centorri Moscato as the former talked about the drink and how to taste and […]


The debut edition of “Message In The Bottle” with Eric Mihan

  Downtown kicked off a new segment on Tuesday afternoon with Eric Mihan of Bangor Wine & Cheese called “Message In The Bottle” to teach us about wine. Eric introduced the segment for the first time and set up what we could expect in future editions. He talked about America becoming the number one consumer […]