A lovely lunch today with Janet Myers, the Director of Winemaking and General Manager at Franciscan Estate. She was in New York to promote her exciting new white wine called Equilibrium, a blend of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Muscat. It’s a very interesting wine – highly aromatic with crisp acidity and a rounded, lifted, slightly [...]
Visiting Burgundian Producers with Jeanne-Marie De Champs "I like a good farmer!" says Jeanne-Marie De Champs, owner of Domaines et Saveurs Collection in Burgundy. Jeanne-Marie represents over seventy producers and exports them to various countries, including the USA and my favorite ...
Secrets of the Sommelier: Review of “Restaurant Man” by Joe Bastianich
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be the wine director of a restaurant? Of course, in some ways it sounds like a fantasy job. One can imagine the pleasures of having distributors ...
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be the wine director of a restaurant? Of course, in some ways it sounds like a fantasy job. One can imagine the pleasures of having distributors ...
Luxurious Il Boscareto Resort in Piedmont So what is this picture of a jacuzzi doing in an online magazine about wine? It is a snap from my favorite hotel in Italy, Il Boscareto, a luxury oriented spa hotel so enticing even the ...
Tasting Notes May 6, 2013: Hahn Pinot Noir 2011 & Director’s Cut Sauvignon Blanc 2012 "Wait, that's my bottle!" The lively young group at the next table looked at the waiter opening our bottle of Hahn Pinot Noir in amazement. It turns out that they brought the exact same wine for a ...
La Dame de Pic So I was finally able to visit La Dame de Pic in Paris ... in October they were full. The restaurant has an open kitchen and an intimate dining room ... One of the more interesting ...