Champagne: New Acquaintances and Old Friends
Champagnes at New York Wine Press luncheon Celebrating New Year’s Eve can include new and old friends, and that’s true for Champagnes, too. So, let
Vietti’s Vivacious Wines
Elena Currado at Charlie Bird. Once the European harvest was finished last fall, Elena Currado presented her family’s newest wines at Charlie Bird, an eclectic
Presqu’ile Winery delivers its Burgundy vision
Presqu’ile is the California winery I’ve been waiting for. In 2007, Matt Murphy and his parents, Madison and Suzanne, purchased 200 acres in California’s Santa
Lunch with Enrico
Enrico Viglierchio with 2012 Banfi Brunello di Montalcino wines How do you pronounce your last name,” I asked Enrico Viglierchio, as we sat down at
Wines You Can Party With
Beaujolais party wines Party-planning pros tell you that one part of the formula for a successful event is to put more people into a room
For the Baudry family, 1975 was a very good year
Forty-one years ago, Bernard Baudry created his winery with a five-acre vineyard in Cravant-les-Coteaux, a village in Chinon, the heart of France’s Loire Valley red
Connecting Good Value with Bordeaux
Chateau Haut Brion (photo by John Foy) The majestic image of Bordeaux’s grand chateaux with turrets or towers behind black-iron gates, long, gravel driveways, regal doors
Siepi Centuries In The Making
In the engrossing book, Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson, author James M. Gabler writes of an Italian doctor-merchant-winemaker-statesman Filippo (Philip) Mazzei who
Wilson Daniels Delivers Good-Value Italian Wines
Good-Value is a relative term. Are low-priced wines good value? If you are in the 1 percent bracket does good- value wine begin with $100
Yannick Rousseau’s wines pay homage to Pepe.
Yannick Rousseau at A Voce. Yannick Rousseau is doing everything he can to make you like tannat and colombard. Rousseau grew up in Gascony, a