Rouge Tomate Rolls Out a Fancier Cart
A high-end, Belgian-owned restaurant on East 60th Street is stocking its outdoor food cart with much more complicated fare.
Nondrinkers are terrible presidents. Discuss.
Timothy Egan has a piece up on the Opinionator column of the NYT with a provocative thesis on the correlation between teetotalism and presidential leadership: “The nondrinkers, at least over the last century or so, were terrible presidents.” Our country has a history of both binging on alcohol and abstaining so it is in an...
Monday Mini Wine Reviews Round-Up For April 23, 2012
So, like what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be quirky, fun, and easily-digestible. Below is a wrap-up of the twitter reviews...
Chateau Puy Galland 2006: Ready to Drink Discovery from Bordeaux’s Insider’s Favorite: Cotes de Francs
Subscribe to Cynthia’s free newsletter Puy Galland comes from Bordeaux, where the Cotes de Francs vineyards are in the undiscovered (and high value) area just 10K east of Saint-Emilion. Cotes de Francs. A rolling, green part of Right Bank Bordeaux that’s producing some of Bordeaux’s least known but most amazing wine values. The Thienpont family...
Le Mortelle
The Antinori family has been in the wine business for over six hundred years and they can document this back to 1385 across 26 generations. It is an interesting question whether anyone has done more in raising the profile of Italian wines than the current head of the family, Marchese Piero Antinori. Back in the...
Prepping for the Drink Local Wine Conference
Prepping for the Drink Local Wine Conference in Denver on Saturday. So exactly how does one prepare for a conference? Well, I looked at several hundred vineyard photos that I took a few years back while visiting wineries and vineyards in Colorado. Then another way to set your mind is to drink wine from the...
A Rose night in Soho…
There’s something about a glass of rosé from Provence that is so pleasing to the eye, a seductive quality in it’s shimmering hues that makes me just want to dive right in. I remember when I was first introduced to Provençal rosé, I was i...
Estancia Estates 2006 Reserve Chardonnay
Regular Retail Price:
$21.00
The Wine Spies One Day Price:
$14.99
Varietal:
Chardonnay
Region:
California: Monterey...
From Woodinville to Walla Walla: Mark Ryan Winery
News travels fast in downtown Walla Walla. No sooner did owner Chad Diltz of Tru Cellars announce he was giving up his space at 26 E Main Street due to being sold out and waiting for upcoming bubbly vintages to release; word on the street was that Sta...
Sherry Dinner at Fu Leen with The Palmas of González Byass
Not too long ago I had the pleasure of eating dinner at Fu Leen, the seafood restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown. Peter Liem organized a group of people to drink several special Sherries and to eat things like lightly steamed fresh shrimp, fried dungen...
Budswell & Budbreak
On April 7th I found significant budswell in my vineyard – predominately in the Chardonnay rows. The photo here shows a few swollen buds with a fuzzy dog in the background. Over the 7th and 8th I rushed to complete my vine training (I was hoping for at least another week to do this). I...
