looked through the blog recently and I think there is some stuff worth reading, whether for entertainment or for information about wine. Wine-related fantasy ( rated PG-13, anyway ) : Team up with 10 high quality bloggers/writers to create a new website with wine information and notes. That's a lot of writing about wine and food. MORE >>

In my opinion, which in this case is even less well informed than most of my other opinions, red wine is just too difficult to pair with cheese. Mateo and Andy Kehler raise their own cows and make their own cheeses, but they also cellar small-batch cheeses made by other dairy farmers, including the famous Cabot's Cloth Bound Cheddar. MORE >>

Participating bars include 8th Street Wine Cellar and Flûte. Complete information on the Sud de France Festival, including promotions and participating venues, dates, locations for cooking and pairing demonstrations, and information on the wines and cuisine of Languedoc-Roussillon can be found on: www.festival-suddefrance.com/ny. MORE >>

There was only my father's generation to talk to and for the reasons I talked about earlier, they didn't share information like that. We were friends, we tasted in each others' cellars, we opened bottles together, we really got to know each other. But to do that, you need a cold and humid cellar. didn't want to rack the wines. MORE >>

There is apparently no other published source of this information. In outline, this is easily accomplished: small berried clones; low yields, selective sorting of the grapes; and, trickiest of all, fermenting and cellaring the wine in such a way as to allow the terroir to come through with no distracting stylistic flourishes. MORE >>