And I also asked him which two bottles he would have grabbed from the famed cellar at Daniel if he had made a dramatic exit. ebwinenews : @drvino lack of tips / half a gram / unresolved childhood trauma. This week’s big story is the dramatic, emergency-slide resignation of JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater. Voila! MORE >>

This means that village producers can not dig the deep cellars ideal for aging and they can not prolong barrel maturation for more than a year. Now the Meursault terroir consists of marl and chalk soil, and the kind of high water table that allows producers such as Phillipe Chavy to carve deep cold cellars. White Burgundy Tasting. MORE >>

Marlborough is located at the northern tip of the southern island of New Zealand. Last March I posted a press release on a new collection of artisan wines in an innovative attractive new package. An international wine collection with six brands and ten items packaged in a new exciting premium 3L wine cask from the Octavin Home Wine Bar ™. MORE >>

usually serve orange wines at cellar temp (55 degrees F) and let the bottle warm up on the table from there. If you have specific tips of your own, please let me know. Orange wines are sweeping the nation! Well, something like that. These white wines emerge from their fermentation on the grape skins with a rich, sometimes orange, hue. MORE >>

John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. But being younger than the gentleman I just mentioned, I do not have the same reserves of old vintages of white Burgundy or white Bordeaux in my cellar, and so premox has really hit my collection hard. Are these wines forcibly better? MORE >>