Today Show tomorrow: Keeping Wine Alive
Barring crazy world news, I should be on the Today show tomorrow, March 16, during the fourth hour, with regular host Hoda Kotb and guest host Kirk Cameron (strange but true—my pal Kathie Lee G. is away on vacation, and Kirk Cameron is stepping...
Help Chile by Drinking Wine
As everyone knows, Chile was recently struck by an immensely powerful earthquake. Among other devastation, the country's wine industry was hard hit, with some wineries nearly leveled, and many others reporting massive losses of wine and equipment...
Scotch Preview: The $4,000 Highland Park '68
If there’s one thing that will lure me out into a New York City blizzard, it’s the chance to taste a super-rare whiskey. So the other evening, a handful of die-hard Scotch enthusiasts and I braved the snow so we could be among the f...
WineCountry.com: Events (Courtesy of WineCountry.com)
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Live Music Master guitarist Eddie Duran known in the heyday of the San Francisco bebop scene...
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Live Music Master guitarist Eddie Duran popular in the heyday of the San Francisco bebop scene...
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Live Music The very talented Monday Night Jazz Ensemble made up of high school students under...
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Celebration Exhibition The Napa Valley Museum is celebrating the opening of its new History Gallery with...
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Food Education Learn to make easy creamy risotto with the freshest vegetables of spring Grill tuna...
Dr. Vino's Wine Blog
Wine list insider: Bar Boulud
We all want to order wine like a pro at a restaurant. But apparently ordering wine off a wine list is an extremely pressure-filled situation for many people, ranking right up there with fear of public speaking and fear of grizzly bears. So with a new, recurring feature on this site, we aim to help [...]
Lafarge Bourgogne and Passetoutgrain 2007s
I recently bought the 2007 Lafarge Bourgogne rouge ($30; find this wine) and popped it open on a Friday evening for Mrs. Vino. With the delicious pinot noir in our glasses, light in color with excellent balance between acid and youthful tannin, the weekend was off to a great start. Then our neighbor dropped by [...]
Baboons, biting hands, Bordeaux disarray, sommeliers – sipped and spit
SIPPED: headline writing“Baboons give Chardonnay a thumbs up,” was a recent headline on timeslive.co.za. Nice. How many baboon thumbs up could catch on as a new, powerful wine evaluation method. (See our previous baboon coverage.)SIPPED: market disarray“Bordeaux” and “discount” rarely appear in the same sentence. But with Diageo’s retreat from the Bordeaux marketplace, [...]
Breast milk cheese: impossible food-wine pairing?
All the chatter in the NY dining scene is about cheese made from breast milk. At Klee Brasserie, Chef Daniel Angerer blogged about making cheese from his own lactating wife, blogged about it, and the requests to try it came pouring in. So he started giving it away as a canapé with figs and Hungarian [...]
Finger Lakes Riesling gets tanked
The alternative packaging trend gets bigger and reusable: a 2009 Riesling from the Finger Lakes in 20-liter tank will soon be available in NYC.Known as Gotham Project, the thirst-quenching Riesling is the brainchild of Charles Bieler (above, left), of Bieler Rose in Provence and one of the Three Thieves, and Bruce Schneider (right), of [...]
