They Shouldn't do that in the Jura I was shopping at a large store in lower Manhattan, looking to buy a few bottles of Jacques Puffeney's 2007 Trousseau. The sales guy then says "They shouldn't do that in the Jura. Was he angry at the Jura and the lovely people who live there? That's a brand new thing they're doing in the Jura." MORE >>

But I kid you not, the calendar has been so reliable that I'm starting to plan dinners and tastings around it. But when was the last time you drank (not tasted) 7 bottles of wine in an evening and every one of them was showed beautifully? I'm starting to believe in the influence of lunar cycles on wine. And there have been exceptions. MORE >>

I've wanted to taste this iconic wine from the Languedoc for a long time now. Serious tasting occurred, of course, but so did catching up about daily life. Some one else is annoyed with how disrespectful and impolite competitors often are at industry tastings. Supposedly it takes forever for one of these to come around. MORE >>

I recently tweeted that I’d be leading a tasting of hipster wines. The tasting on Manhattan’s Upper East Side came and went and I didn’t wear a woolen cap, flannel shirt, or use empty 40-ounce cans of PBR as decanters. But we did taste some fine and fun wines, if quirky and hard to find (though not in Brooklyn). MORE >>

This is part of an ongoing effort to make interesting and delicious dishes involving copious amounts of spinach - I want my kids to want to eat spinach, and not through trickery, but because it tastes good. Tags: Domaine des Huards Fugedaboudit Jura Loire Valley Philippe Bornard Domaine de la Pépière Will not happen again. MORE >>