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News at Ma(i)sonry & Blackbird Vineyards

by Marisa D'Vari26 February 2010
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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 Auction.

Usually Yountville looks the same [...]

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Meadowood Chef Christopher Kostow Gets 4 Stars

by Marisa D'Vari21 February 2010
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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 Valley Wine Auction, yet did [...]

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William Hill Estate Winery Chardonnay 2007

by Marisa D'Vari10 November 2009
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Chardonnay is everyone’s favorite grape … it can take on so many expessions. Increasingly, you should recognize that many old world producers, especially in Macon, are edging towards new world appellations in style while some new world producers are trying to emulate old world producers. 

So for those of us who appreciate the apple pie a la mode style of [...]

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Review: Food and Wine Pairing at Meadowood

by Marisa D'Vari1 November 2009

Are you a jaded diner? In today’s power-packed culinary world, many people are lucky enough to visit four and five star restaurants as a matter of course. Twenty years ago, for example, dining at a top restaurant would be because…

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Tasting Ehret Cabernet Sauvignon

by Marisa D'Vari24 September 2009
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… so you can imagine how surprised I was when a business colleague gave me a bottle of Ehret Family Winery 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa’s Knight’s Valley upon hearing I was a wine person.

This is a delicious wine with exotic spice, black berries, plums, coffee, and a never-ending finish. Knights Valley is a tiny [...]

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Pairing Food and Wine at Meadowood in the Napa Valley

by Marisa D'Vari20 August 2009
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Are you a jaded diner? In today’s power-packed culinary world, many people are lucky enough to visit four and five star restaurants as a matter of course. Twenty years ago, for example, dining at a top restaurant would be because…

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Review: The New Bardessono Hotel

by Marisa D'Vari5 June 2009
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“I’m staying at this fabulous hotel,” I overhear a woman tell a Napa Valley local. “Yet I can’t pronounce the name.” “That’s okay,” the Napa-based friend replies. “I can’t pronounce it either. But I hear it is fabulous.” The hotel…

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Experiencing Artesa Wines

by Marisa D'Vari28 March 2008

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…

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