We are seated today at the exclusive Modern restaurant in Manhattan, where Executive Chef Gabriel Kreuther has drawn up a special menu to pair with each of the six wines presented today. Now interestingly, the scallops also pair well with the Cupcake Chardonnay and Cupcake Sauvignon Blanc, two of my favorite wines. MORE >>

Yet let's get to that in a moment -- right now, we are here in the very elegant and very select Convivo restaurant in New York City, with gregarious and savvy winemaker who are entertaining several of our nation's top journalists and preaching the good words about Puglia wines. or something like that?" MORE >>

Few people today know the story of how this traditional Argentine grape, previously grown as a low cost bulk wine for the local market, ended up in some of the highest-priced restaurants in the world. Like Malbec? The press loved the quality old vine Malbec, and voila! The multi-milliion industry Malbec is today. Related: Wines of Catena. MORE >>

Pineau can be red when it is made from Malbec, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and/or Cabernet Franc, but in the USA it is far more common to see white Pineau, made from a host of grapes including Colombard, Folle Blanche, Ugni Blanc, and Semillion. What on earth are you thinking, pal?!? Maybe they order apricot schnapps over there. MORE >>

It is designed to provide visitors with an authentically Argentinean experience: horseback riding (of course), wine tasting, cooking classes, an award-winning restaurant, and soon, a bed & breakfast. The Zuccardi family wines are famous around the world, and it is impossible not to see them on the list in any Buenos Aires restaurant. MORE >>