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The Best Some of Bordeaux’s best 2015s were displayed in January at the Union des Grand Crus tasting, with those from the Right Bank chateaus in St. Emilion and Pomerol prevailing. St. Emilion: Ch. Beau-Sejour Becot: Owned by the Becot family and now under the direction of 40-year-old Juliette Be...

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The Champagne region is home to the world’s finest sparkling wines made from chardonnay and pinot noir. While large brands and “houses” dominate the retail market, it’s wines from the small producers that connoisseurs seek. Moet et Chandon and Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin are the proverbial 50...

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If you’re wondering what to give this holiday season, recall what Ernest Hemingway famously said, “Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” For wine collectors, receiving a special bottle is cherished for years, and possibly decades. Chateau Montelena is renowned for its Judgment of...

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Nearly a year ago, Ravenswood’s winemaker Gary Sitton appeared in Manhattan with an armful of his 2015 zinfandels. It was his inaugural vintage, after the retirement of Joel Peterson, Ravenswood’s legendary founder and winemaker. I thought Sitton had a successful debut (see The Maven of Zinfa...

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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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Ceretto is stylish at every turn, part one.

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Michele Chiarlo delivers quality, integrity and reasonable prices

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Chateau Brown delivers quality at a modest price