Dining from Venice to Rome, Part One: Take Five in Venice
Last year, I visited the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s major art fairs. The theme was titled “May You Live In Interesting Times.”
New Year’s Eve wines you can party with
Not every New Year’s Eve celebration is a formal dinner with fine wines. Some like to pop corks, blow whistles, bounce balloons, and crank up
The Great Champagne Avalanche
Champagnes at IL Gattopardo With Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year’s Eve within 10 days of each other, there’s plenty of opportunity to close out 2019
Corte Quaiara Wines are the Fruit of Passion
Corte Quaiara is a small winery created by a big passion. “I felt a strong need to work with the land and my vines,” said
Thanksgiving Day’s American wines
Thanksgiving is our only holiday devoted to borderline gluttony. Our other holidays are more noble, and a cinch for wine selections: Fourth of July barbecue—pour
Vina Vik’s golden valley
Entrepreneur Alexander Vik chose Chile’s Millahue Valley, whose name in the indigenous Mapuche’s language means “place of gold,” to make his billionaire-style investment in Vina
Gva’ot kosher wine brings us full circle
For millennia, Jews made wine for religious and everyday consumption. That tradition and religious requirement—Jewish law dictates that all men and women must consume four
Planeta scales Mount Etna
The Planeta family recorded five centuries and 17 generations in Sicily’s agriculture before it planted its first vineyard in 1985. It was another decade before
Relaxing with Labor Day wines
Though its name implies a weekend devoted to work, Labor Day weekend—summer’s last fling—is a time for enjoying wines that capture both the spirit of
America’s first legendary wine: Beaulieu Georges de Latour, Part Two
After celebrating its centennial anniversary, Beaulieu entered the 21st century with newly planted vineyards and a winemaking team led by Jeffrey Stambor who joined BV