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In 2000, Ceretto installed a modern glass cube-shaped sculpture at the top of the Rocche vineyard in Castiglione Falletto, one of Barolo’s best communes. Its transparency allows you to see the surrounding vineyard where Ceretto grows the grapes for Bricco Rocche, its finest Barolo. It preceded...

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The Grape viewed from a tasting room Serruluga d’Alba is an important wine village in the Langhe region, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that dates to the Roman period. History notwithstanding, the village also enjoys a position in the midst of some of Italy’s most privileged wine country. But if...

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It has always struck me that Thanksgiving is the only American holiday devoted to gluttony. Plates and platters of food fill the dinner table—and sometimes side tables— with an abundance that is intended to carry over to the next day or through the weekend. It’s not only the traditional tu...

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This is the first in a series of Barolo producers that I visited in the last week of October. Chiarlo’s Cerequio vineyard and the hills of Barolo Michele Chiarlo’s Piedmont wines range from white Gavi to Barbera reds and the crus of Barbaresco and Barolo. Within that selection are trad...

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Your wine repertoire should contain more than cabernet sauvignon, merlot, pinot noir and sangiovese. Stretching your palate with these red wines will exercise it and make you a more nimble taster. Though typically thought of as a southern French red wine grape (and it’s believed to be a Spanish ...

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Chateau Brown takes its name from the Scottish wine merchant John Lewis Brown who bought the estate in 1795. Located in Bordeaux’s prestigious Pessac-Leognan appellation, it offers good-value in an increasingly expensive neighborhood. Over the next two centuries, the chateau had various owners b...

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We continue the Dream Tasting presentation by Bo Barrett, winemaker and owner of Chateau Montelena. See part one for the wines from 1974 to 1996. The new millennium delivered a moderate growing season for the 2001 Chateau Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, yielding an herbal, black-fruit, and dr...

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Bo Barrett presenting The Dream Tasting in NYC The first of a two-part series. It may be from California, but Chateau Montelena got its fame in Paris when its 1973 chardonnay bested a handful of Burgundy’s great white wines in the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting. A few months ago in Manhattan, ...

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Six weeks ago, Golan Heights Winery winemaker Victor Schoenfeld returned to New York presenting his newest Yarden wines, the company’s flagship wine label. In 1988, Schoenfeld graduated from the University of California’s venerated wine program at Davis, then worked at Chateau St. Jean i...

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Whether your Labor Day party is in the back yard, on the beach or lakeside, informality and inexpensive wines rule. Here are some bottles to help you bid farewell to summer and white linen. Created 45 years ago by Jean Pierre Perrin, owner of the world renowned Chateau de Beaucastel, La Vieille F...

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Ceretto is stylish at every turn, part two: Barolo

Ceretto is stylish at every turn, part one.

Your wine doesn’t have to be a turkey, too

Michele Chiarlo delivers quality, integrity and reasonable prices

Red wines off-the-beaten-path

Chateau Brown delivers quality at a modest price

Part 2: 40 year retrospective of Ch. Montelena Estate Cabernets

40 Year retrospective of Chateau Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon

Yarden: where kosher and quality wines meet

Relaxing wines for Labor Day