http://awinestory.com Wine reviews & information from wine expert Marisa D'Vari. Have fun and impress people with your wine knowledge. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:25:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sopexa JoLynn Howe (right) ... so I will be in Bordeaux in a few weeks to attend En Primeur ... and so appreciated the snapshot of some of the 2009s showcased by Sopexa's Le Cercle Rive Droite today for journalists and members of the trade. The 2009s were showing remarkably well! ... http://awinestory.com/2010/03/from-barrel-to-bottle-tasting-nyc.html Chiara Ferraris Did you know that wines from Italy are the most imported wines to the USA? In Manhattan, Italian wines are very hot, and they are most diverse and exciting at the restaurant I Trulli, which has hundreds of Italian wines on its list. Now certain Manhattanites (you now who you ... http://awinestory.com/2010/03/do-you-know-the-ruche-grape.html Pietro Ratti Tom Maresca and Charles Scicilone of New York's Wine Media Guild have done the impossible -- they have put together a fantastic tasting of 2005 Barolos with Pietro Ratti, son of the late Renato Ratti and owner of the family winery in La Morra, to come to NY and ... http://awinestory.com/2010/03/pietro-ratti-speaks-to-new-yorks-wine-media-guild-about-baroloolo.html Erwan Faiveley flanked by celebrity chefs 1st Cru winemakers and Michelin rated chefs from Dijon, the major city near Burgundy, gathered together in Manhattan this week to celebrate a week-long celebration of the creativity and vitality of Dijon. Nuits saint georges At a reception for journalists, winemakers set up tables with their best ... http://awinestory.com/2010/03/1st-cru-burgundy-chefs-from-dijon.html Michael Apstein Have you heard of Manchuela? It is a very small, rather new D.O. in Spain that makes quality white, rose, and red wine. Recently, winemakers from the region presented their wines to journalists at a lunch in New York with commentary from wine educator Michael Apstein. The native grape of ... http://awinestory.com/2010/02/1983.html Antonio (standing) One of the best things about being a wine writer is the opportunity to meet really great people. Wine producers always seem to be so genuinely friendly and nice. Of course, they are sales peole by necessity, yet every single wine person I've met has always been incredibly sincere ... http://awinestory.com/2010/02/antonio-garcia-figuero-of-garcia-figuero-winery.html Taylor Mason, Resident Chef .... it seems like I've been going to the Napa Valley every few weeks this year. Only February, and I've been in late January for the Master of Wine educational seminar and just last week, the Symposium for Professional Wine Journalists and the Premiere Napa Valley Barrel ... http://awinestory.com/2010/02/news-at-maisonry-blackbird-vineyards.html Gary Fisch (stripped shirt) of Gary's Wine and Marketplace (location New Jersey) ,,, so here I am, freshly returned to NYC after a week in Napa tasting fantastic wine, spending time with fellow journalists at the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers at Meadowood, and attending many of the festivities and tastings ... http://awinestory.com/2010/02/nearly-2-million-raised-at-premiere-napa-valley-barrel-futures-auction.html Chef Christopher Kostow   It has been a while - perhaps more than a year - when I had the tasting menu at the fabulous Meadowood resort in the Napa Valley (click here to read the review). I had the pleasure of being at Meadowood this past week in anticipation of the Napa ... http://awinestory.com/2010/02/meadowood-chef-christopher-kostow-gets-4-stars.html Journalists at Symposium for Professional Wine Writers ... so on my previous post I mentioned I have been coming here for years to catch up with fellow professionals throughout the world.  Even the most jaded journalist can always learn something new, and of course new associations can always be made. This year ... http://awinestory.com/2010/02/review-of-events-at-symposium-for-professional-wine-writers-2010-at-meadowoodgave.html