Consider the year 1551. Michelangelo is in Italy, chiseling the finishing touches on his last work, the Rondanini Pietà. In merry old England, Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king. And in the Spanish town of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, just…
Quick! How can a region that was covered in sagebrush in 1996 create spectacular wine in 2008? If you’re like most folks, you probably think of Washington State as a chilly and rainy place, but the Eastern part of the…
Quick! Imagine the ultimate, Michelin-star French meal. Chances are, you are thinking foie gras, canard, rich sauces, and endless courses of tiny little bites. In most regions of the world, you would be right. You may correctly guess the wine…
“Robert Parker spent an entire day here,” says the charming matriarch Annick Saturny, whose husband bought and created Château Tayac many decades ago. So far, this is the first Château I have visited that actually looks like the American ideal…
Quick! What does Saint Emilion mean to you? In your mind, does it represent the healing saint of the same name? Does it signify a quaint, ancient, walled village in Bordeaux? Or, for you wine lovers, does it represent chateaux…
Didier Galhaud, tall, dark, and slim, meets me at Chateau Guiraud in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux, and escorts me around the First Grand Cru Classe wine property, known for the spectacular sweet wine called Sauternes. Grey mist swirls around…
Didier Galhaud, tall, dark, and slim, meets me at Chateau Guiraud in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux, and escorts me around the First Grand Cru Classe wine property, known for the spectacular sweet wine called Sauternes. Grey mist swirls around…
Wouldn’t it be interesting to take a snapshot of the past? For example, on a recent trip to Bordeaux, I visited many of the same Chateau as our third president Thomas Jefferson. It was so interesting see the same topography,…
Imagine yourself sitting in an elegant restaurant, the kind where the wine list seems to start at about a hundred dollars, and goes up to three thousand dollars for a bottle of First Growth Bordeaux. You are there for a…
“Now let’s go for sushi!” These are the words I heard leaving a friend’s party at an inexpensive diner, where the buffet table groaned over with calorie-centric, deli-style delights that few of the svelte Manhattan-ites at the party would dare…
Are you planning a visit to the Bordeaux region of France? If so, one of the first decisions you must make is what kind of vacation you hope to enjoy. Bordeaux offers many styles of accommodations, ranging from luxurious four-star…
Are you planning a visit to the Bordeaux region of France? If so, one of the first decisions you must make is what kind of vacation you hope to enjoy. Bordeaux offers many styles of accommodations, ranging from luxurious four-star…
