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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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This is the fifth article in a series of six on the new generation of winemakers at family estates in Burgundy. Depending on your traveling direction, Nuits-Saint-George is either the beginning or end the Cote de Nuits section of Burgundy’s Cote d’Or region. The communes, or villages, of Prem...

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At a recent tasting of German and Austrian wines, the rieslings from Helmut Plunien’s Vols winery stood out for their minerality and purity. In the early 2000s, Plunien, who studied winemaking and worked at various Germany wineries, began farming two small plots as a part-time endeavor in the ...

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This is the third article in a series offering good-value wines for your informal parties, or when you want a pleasing, affordable everyday wine. Since 1680, the Sparr family has made wine in Alsace, but it wasn’t until the early 1900s when 20-year-old Pierre Sparr took control and pioneered ...

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this is the fourth article in a series about the new generation in Burgundy. As with many traditional family wineries in Burgundy, at Domaine Arnoux you’ll find siblings and parents working side by side on the home turf. And, embracing an increasingly frequent and modern trend, here, sister an...

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Master sommelier John Szabo (speaking), professor Kevin Pogue (left) We can thank Robert Mondavi, in his pioneering days in California, for marketing wines by their grape names. And, depending on your point of view, Mondavi also can be congratulated or blamed for indoctrinating Americans to buy ...

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