Moving back to New York, Michael got a job as a sales manager for a book publisher while Emilia continued working in restaurants, including at Franny’s in Park Slope. The well-curated selection, strong in wines from the Loire, Burgundy and Italy, features many wines from Kermit Lynch as well as other importers and some domestic wines. MORE >>

mean really - Burgundy, the Loire, Sherry, Champagne.what's not to love? But one day in February I was browsing in a large Manhattan store in which I don't normally shop, and I saw bottles of 2010 Montinore Pinot Gris on sale for just under $11. I could probably grow old drinking exactly what's in my cellar now and be perfectly happy. MORE >>

And that’s just it: the top producers release fractions of the total production for pre-sale so what demand there is, pays top dollar. Per a new arrangement, white wine from Beaujolais will not be able to be labeled “Bourgogne blanc,&# or white Burgundy, ending a decades-long loophole/tradition (depending on your perspective). MORE >>

Koch paid Acker $77,925 for the five bottles, purchased through private sales and auctions. The filing also elaborates on sales of magnums of 1982 Le Pin and 122 bottles of red Burgundy from Domaine Ponsot. Jancis Robinson has since called Laurent Ponsot “Burgundy’s Sherlock Holmes.&# William I. MORE >>

It fails to name the auction house where Kurniawan was the consignor of wines in 2008 where Laurent Ponsot dramatically stopped the sale in the room even though it has been widely reported. Further, the “relatively recent” California wines that were to indicated to pass off as older Bordeaux and Burgundy have not been named. MORE >>