Wine -- Mise en abyme

In a r ecent post on Stephan Derenoncourt , I noted that, in his position as chief wine buyer for Montesquieu, he would provide that organiz...

The 1990 Gruaud-Larose was the most recent conquest in my quest to "run the table" on Master Sommelier Andrew McNamara's Wine...

In his book Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters , Jonathon Nossiter lauds French (Anjou, Touraine, Chablis, Champagne, Alsace, Burgundy, Rhone, ...

Jonathon Nossiter's  Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters , with its treatment of taste, power, and globalization, is a very good cultural an...

Last Sunday I attended the subject seminar which highlighted the philosophy underlying the Vietti Family Winery Barberas.  The seminar, a pa...

I recently went to a seminar at B21 where Vittorio Marianecci spoke about the wines of Casanova di Neri, a 39-year-old Brunello winery owned...

It’s that time of year to barbeque so let's break out those big wines. I’m calling for those red Zin’s, Shiraz, and Petite Sirah’s. Th...