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A Thursday Wine ArticleFranceProvence
the author in Provence Provence is lavender fields, hillside villages of stone buildings and clinging vineyards, winding roads leading to sandy beaches, and splashed colors of Van Gogh and Cezanne. It is also home to delicious rosé wines often enjoyed on a yacht in Saint-Tropez. The shell-pink co...
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A Thursday Wine ArticleItalyVeneto
Andrea Sartori at Il Gattopardo, NYC Verona, the city in northern Italy made for lovers by Shakesphere’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” is also the gateway for wine lovers. It is there that Sartori’s elegant Amarone and Valpolicella wines answer Juliet’s question, “What’s in a name?” I...
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A Thursday Wine ArticleBordeauxFrance
Speakers: Master of Wine Mary Gorman-Adams (left) and Armelle Cruse, Cru Bourgeois A few days ago, the wine world descended on New York’s Jacob Javits center for VinExpo, a two-day trade event that gives regions large and small a showcase for their wines. This is the second year for the New Y...
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Chile’s long, slender shape defines South America’s western edge and is front facing to the Pacific Ocean. The capital, Santiago, lies in the middle with the Andes Mountains as a backdrop, and nearby, are the country’s most historic wine regions. My first trip there was in the early 1990s w...
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A Thursday Wine ArticleCaliforniaNapa Valley
A recent tasting of the newest vintages of Robert Mondavi was like having dinner with an old friend. As I sat across the table conversing informally with long-time wine director Genevieve Janssens, it recalled decades of tastings with Robert Mondavi and, later, with his son Michael. French-born a...
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A Thursday Wine ArticleItalyPiedmont
The sixth and final report on my 2018 autumn visit and tasting of Nebbiolo-based wines in Piedmont Nadia Cogno & Valter Fissore In 1990, 53-year-old Elvio Cogno ended his partnership with the acclaimed Marcarini winery in La Morra and purchased a 27-acre farm that included a portion of the Rav...
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A Thursday Wine ArticleAustriaChampagneFranceItalyLombardyPenedesSpain
Rose’ Champagne and other sparkling wines make their splash every February 14. My restaurant years taught me that those wines—a symbol of giddy celebration—are more smiled at than savored, and flirted over than studied. In nod to this annual rite of romance, today’s article offers a selec...
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A Thursday Wine ArticleItalyPiedmont
Fifth article of a series from an autumn 2018 visit and tastings in Piedmont. Before his untimely death in 1988 at 54 years old, Renato Ratti was one Barolo’s legendary figures. He was also a visionary, adjusting his winemaking by shortening maceration and fermentation times, and reducing oak b...
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A Thursday Wine ArticleItalyTuscany
No wine area in Italy has more history and historical figures than Chianti Classico. Situated between Florence and Siena, it was fought over for centuries, ruled by the Medicis, and was the home of Bettino Ricasoli, the 27th Baron of Castello di Brolio. It was the Baron who united Tuscany with ...
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A Thursday Wine ArticleItalyPiedmont
Fourth article of a series from an autumn 2018 visit and tastings in Piedmont. Few Italian estates have as storied a history as Marchesi di Barolo. In 1807, the French noblewoman Juliette Colbert de Maulévrier married the Marchese of Barolo Carlo Tancredi Falletti in Paris. Arriving at her new ho...
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