“Now all we need are sun umbrellas!” said a friend recently at Brasserie Beaumarchais, a very fun restaurant with a lively club-style brunch. The restaurant scene in St. Tropez is fairly wild and decadent with wealthy patrons spraying expensive champagne at one another and bikini-clad patrons dancing to loud disco music. The scene was [...]
Perhaps one of the greatest strengths of the new technology is the ability to host ‘tasting webinars’ for wine education. Recently Jacob’s Creek invited key participants to meet the winemakers and taste five wines, including their 2009 Jacob’s Creek Reserve Pinot Noir from the Adelaide Hills, their 2009 Jacob’s Creek Reserve Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, [...]
Rajeev Vaidya Very excited to read in the latest issue of Wine Spectator that Daniel Boulud, one of my favorite NY chefs, is on the cover of the September 2011 issue representing French Chefs in America. I’ve interviewed Chef Boulud many times for many publications over the past several years, starting from his Le Cirque [...]
Luciano Castiello from Banfi at preview Ready for a fun end of summer event? The Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival takes place last weekend in September at the historic mansions Rosecliff and Marble House, in the seaside resort of Newport, Rhode Island. If you have not been there, Newport is an incredible amount of [...]
2010 Bodegas Julián Chivite Navarra Gran Feudo Rosado style note: Soft, fragrant nose of intense sweet cherry leads to med bodied wine with racy acidity, minerality, and pure cherry fruit. Pair with salads.
So fab to meet Jim Robertson, Global Wine Ambassador of Brancott Estate and Stoneleigh Vineyards of Marlborough at a fab rooftop deck in Manhattan (the XVI Rooftop on 48th). The event, hosted in conjunction with Pernod Richard Wines USA, featured three fabulous wines — Brancott’s Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Noir. What’s interesting [...]
Imagine yourself in a seminar with two delicious looking glasses of sparkling wine in front of you. One, you are told, is from Champagne. The other, Franciacorta a DOCG region in Northern Italy famous for its sparkling wine using the traditional method. You taste the sparklers and one seems much more elegant than the [...]
Naked Wine by Alice Feiring Reviewed by Marisa D’Vari In this colorful narrative vaguely similar to Kermit Lynch’s Adventures on the Wine Route, Alice Feiring tackles “natural wine,” currently one of the hottest subjects in the wine world. Most people think that like buying the freshest produce in a greenmarket, the more natural the [...]
What can you say about an excellently turned out Chardonnay? I am sitting at a table in the elegant Lambs Club with Mr. Jose Antonio Galante, Chief Winemaker at Salentein Family of Wines. Mr. Galante has an extensive history as a winemaker, having started at Catena Zapata which is credited for the currant quality [...]
