While I was drinking a charming Brignot rouge (gamay, pinot) and contemplating the Dard & Ribo St. But, I really am not into a raw food regime, which seems more like a religion. So big surprise when friends took me to Pure Food and Wine (54 Irving Place) and I found the food delicious. The wine had a different plot line. The wine is coded. MORE >>

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Here are two reds that I want to wholeheartedly and most definitely recommend to you. I'll be pouring 2005 Boxler Sylvaner and 2007 Clos Roche Blanche Touraine Gamay at my Thanksgiving dinner this year. All good bloggers are supposed to tell you about the wines they will open for Thanksgiving. It, oddly, was also corked. MORE >>

Made from Poulsard and Gamay, it is sweet, fruity, and funky all at the same time, and pleasantly bubbly. Definitely a $15 beauty. Warning : this is a really long post you might need to read it over several days, or during one day in which you are really bored at work. hauled my butt into Manhattan (!) Packed already, and only 1:10 PM. MORE >>

definitely have not spent enough time at home with dinner and M. liked all of the reds too, but I won't write about them here, except to say that the 2006 Touraine Gamay "Pouille" is aged in neutral barrels for a year before bottling and it achieves a complexity and lusciousness that you'd expect from the finest Cru Beaujolais. MORE >>