So I got together with a group of Burgundy loving friends who all dug deeply into their cellars and we drank a load of wine - top producers, from villages to Grand Cru. The group seemed to agree that 2004 is a vintage in which the quality of the wines very closely adheres to the relative nobility of terroir. Vivant. MORE >>

Peter Liem organized a group of people to drink several special Sherries and to eat things like lightly steamed fresh shrimp, fried dungeness crab, steamed whole fish, and fried rice with salted fish. Not too long ago I had the pleasure of eating dinner at Fu Leen, the seafood restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown. my stars. MORE >>

When he said, “the worst thing you could do is die with a full cellar,” the room burst into laughter and a smattering of applause. Blind tasting removes preconceptions about wines while maintaining the ability to rate wines in a peer group setting. On Wednesday evening I attended a tasting of fifteen wines from Bordeaux 2005. Emilion. MORE >>

But this time the group putting on the trip told her "You've been buying wine from us for years and we want to say thank you, this isn't about getting you to buy anything." And secondly he said that the temperature in the room was too cold - it was cellar temperature. very much like the woman who buys the wine there. Fugedaboudit MORE >>

Participating restaurants include Les Halles, the Tour de France restaurant group including Café d’Alsace, French Roast, Marseille, L’Express, Pigalle, Le Monde, and Maison and The Forgeois Group’s Cercle Rouge, Bar Tabac and Le Singe Vert. Participating bars include 8th Street Wine Cellar and Flûte. MORE >>