Taconic, as the locals call it, is named after New York State Route 987G, the Taconic State Parkway. And the view from the main dining room is utterly gorgeous, emphasizing the bucolic beauty that can still be found in the part of Williamsburg near Newtown Creek. I admit it, I was not looking forward to Taconic on Bedford.

As much as I'm looking forward to the food and wine pairing, I'm looking to tasting the new vintage of Lynch-Bages (and hopefully some older vintages as well, and will share my notes with you). It had been the first wine I bought at auction and I've tasted through the various vintages here in New York. Viticulture.

The New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx is a real gem, as honestly are each of NYC's botanical gardens. It has what I understand to be the very last bit of old growth forest in New York City, for example. The garden in The Bronx also has its charms. I'm telling you, this is worth the trip. Really? Seriously?

This encourages diners to experiment, by, as an example, having a half a bottle of white with appetizers and a half a bottle of red with the main course. ” Two diners sometimes buy a full bottle and then order another half that they wouldn’t have normally ordered to try something new. dining New York City

Pascaline Lepeltier of Rouge Tomate flagged this for us earlier, and she tweeted an elaboration yesterday about the place of wines under $50 and diner psychology: i would say it is mainly the area where people may not expect to find good AND cheap wines; so you have to convince them. dining New York City

This weekend I was supposed to be in Maine with Ellen & the Capron sisters, eating lobster rolls and oysters, and drinking Peepers Ale. Imbibe Wine Club Ameztoi de Maison Selections Gurrutxaga Txakoli Rose 2010 Imbibe New York Wine Club TxakoliIt’s been a while since a post since I’ve been happily scribing for T.

The main grapes of the region was Carignan, Cinsaut and Alicante Bouschet. If you are lucky enough to live near a large city like New York City, I recommend you pick a few of these up when you find them. Wine from Algeria! Who would'a thunk. Ok, for some reason I may have missed this in Geography class. and 2nd Ave.

am here at the Graffit restaurant in New York, where the incredibly charming Esperanza Castro, and her husband Carlos Moro, are presenting ten wines from their Grupo Matarromera estate with the protected denomination of origin ranging from Ribera del Duero to Cigales, Toro and Rueda. Luis E. So is this a modern style. or traditional?"

Right out of the chute the word on the street was all good, and six months later they were cited by the New York Times in a piece called “10 Restaurants Worth a Plane Ride”. Opened in July of 2010 by husband-and-wife team Hugue Dufour from Montreal’s Au Pied de Cochon, and Sarah Obraitis, M.

Eric Dubourg , president of Wineberry America , a wine importer and distributor based in New York, says that he wanted to change box wine, “to get away from bag-in-box as student or grandmother wine.&#. Wine in a box? Try wine in a crate. The lineup includes about six wines, red, white and rosé, all from France.

Yet let's get to that in a moment -- right now, we are here in the very elegant and very select Convivo restaurant in New York City, with gregarious and savvy winemaker who are entertaining several of our nation's top journalists and preaching the good words about Puglia wines. or something like that?"

All in all, a great event for a great cause and I can’t wait until the main City Harvest event in the fall. Tags: News 2010 arlene's rock and roll karaoke band chefs city harvest new york city summer in the city “Wow, this party is so fun … and the food is so delicious!&#

You will experience the same foams and modernistic presentation, save that the portions for multi-course meals are much larger than you'd find in cities like New York or Paris. The train itself is fast, modern, and clean, and the glitzy new Zaragoza train station a gorgeous and expensive expression of the city’s pride.??

Last week’s New York Times reviewed some wines from Savennières, the Loire appellation that makes often-stunning, always dry versions of chenin blanc. Since several years the profile of most years here lead to a year dominated by light more than by heat which may be there for 2 or 3 weeks in July mainly.

The shop is crammed with so many fine and fun wines that they mainly have to do these free tastings outside of the winter months, so the broad pavements of Boulevard Hausmann are at their most hospitable. He worked in wine retail in New York City and did wine consulting for seven years. By Timothy Eustis. Such was the case here.

Ms.Biyela is here to promote her Stellekaya winery, whose wines are featured in select wine shops and South African wine bars here in New York, and also take part in the S. African restaurant here in New York. "So how does it feel to be a winemaker. and given special attention because of your sex? Or because of color."

Our first destination was Cafe Noir, a chic French spot where the patrons, mainly couples enjoying a warm pre-summer night, appeared rather surprised at what appeared to be "tourists" flooding into "their" cafe. The Festivals are conducted in Shanghai, London, Brazil, New York and Mexico. ABOUT SUD DE FRANCE.

What was spectacular about the event that it was not simply a lunch in the main dining room, but in the private cellar where presidents such as Richard Nixon and movie stars such as Liz Taylor kept their private bottles in decades past. Guests at the 21 Club. Did you know that the U.S. Over 20 million bottles were shipped to the U.S.

Main: Organic Whole Wheat Fettucini Pasta with Lamb Sausages, Garlic, Shallots, Crimini Mushrooms, White Wine and Parmesan Cheese. All ingredients used were from New York State except for the EVOO and Gorgonzola Salad: 4 greens (Rocket, Mache, Watercress and soybean sprouts) with Gorgonzola Cheese, EVOO, Aged Balsamic Vinegar.

Crushpad, the pioneer urban winery in San Francisco, has announced it will move its operations to Napa where its main supplier has space. While New York is debating selling wine in grocery stores (and foods in wine stores), Pennsylvania, where the state still owns all the wine stores, gets wine bars in supermarkets! LA Times ].

New York legislators are considering a shift to allow wine to be sold in supermarkets –and wine stores to sell gourmet cheese, cigars, beer and even have ATMs. Background info written by us, the importer, mainly Terry Theise, and some reviews from Galloni, Tanzer, Meadows. To their thoughts, after the jump! Avg price $15.

Evan Dawson, who writes about Finger Lakes wines for the New York Cork Report (and who we last saw here ), recently tweeted that he was in Napa. There is no tasting room on one of Napa’s two main thoroughfares. Travers proudly announced that he “uses two percent new oak each year.&# Today we have his thoughts.

Have you ever been in a New York wine store and thought there was something missing? Indeed, the group opposing the reform, The Last Store on Main Street, claims it will shutter almost 40 percent of New York State’s 2,400 wine stores. Tags: New York City wine politics wine shops Gift bags?

day in New York with a bottle of 2004 François Parent Monthélie 1er Cru Les Duresses as a lunch wine for myself and a friend. Their dormitory was settled in the storeroom at the foot of the house at the end of street “La Métairie&# , just in front of the main entrance of the yard.

And I'll use the beginning of the new year as an excuse to do this. get to do much more than I did back then, as the New York City wine community has, luckily for me, welcomed me into it's folds. 2002 Luneau-Papin Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Excelsior Clos des Noelles with fish soup. am not in the wine business.

Thanks from a reader's tip, I became aware of absinthe being made up in Walton, New York, a place where I spent eleven formative adult years escaping from New York City and getting over my fear of country. Her shop is right on Main Street in Walton, a town so depressed, most of the storefronts are bordered up.

A blonde gestures to the gleaming white fiberglass priapic shapes jutting above the heads of the testosterone-fueled bar crowd at the glamorous new Meatpacking steakhouse STK. With its sleek, dramatic design, STK exemplifies the new female-friendly, NYC steakhouse geared to a younger, hipper crowd. “Look, horns!&# Sweet. 12th St.

Wait my home is the home away from their home the chambers street website 148 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 Phone: 212-227-1434 Since I'm a terribly pill about wine, I want you to know that if you put an assortment of these out, I'll be more than happy to come over and drink. Expect a touch of that old natural VA. Real burgundy.

Gary Grunner, National Sales-Brand Manager of Cantina di Soave, invited me on a recent Sunday afternoon, to Il Poeta , one of the finest new Italian restaurants in Queens, New York. Rocca Sveva Soave Classico 2008 DOC When I was a younger man, the most famous white wine from Italy was from the Soave region, near Verona.

The somm told me that he gives them mainly to regulars or “people who seem nice.&# Tags: New York City dining When is a wine cheaper in a restaurant than at a store? With restaurant markups commonly 300 or 400 percent you could be forgiven for answering, “never.&# But for all (both?) Consider another example.

Upon arriving we were warmly welcomed by Bernard's son Mathieu who told us that Baudry's house and estate can easily be reached via one of the main roads out of Chinon, perhaps a 10 minute drive. Cory writes passionately about the wines he loves, and about his life in the Bay Area and beyond. Which is a good thing.

Now I am going to attempt a new method. Wait, there's graduations, Mothers Day and my wifes birthday in May, and in June, my daughters birthday, our wedding anniversary and a New York City vacation. I promised in my last post (Why?) Don't worry, I will keep the promise. don't store wine. That eventually lead to a minor problem.

From The Wall Street Journal by Katy McLaughlin "On one menu, he crossed out prices of wine and listed new prices with the term "sale" -- a rarely seen word in fancy restaurants." Consider: His restaurants are mainly in hard-hit areas including Manhattan's Upper East Side and Las Vegas. What's on David Burke's fine-dining menu? TRY IT!

While gesticulating fervently, Nicolas Joly addressed a packed room today at the Return to Terroir event in New York City today. have someone coming to play get rid of one main disease. Truth now has a new forum! What follows are some excerpts from his talk. Ideally, it is a type of soil and a match of vines. Sounds!

Many wine stores offer tastings, which are always free in New York and may be the best priced tastings for our times. The main event is the Return to Terroir tasting of 76 biodynamic wine makers from thirteen countries. Advertisement: Tags: New York City February 21 & 23: natural wine Nirvana. Map it.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Wine and a Word for Pranna | Main | Wine and Indian Cuisine: Curing the pairing panic » Alice Does a Jig January 11, 2009 Caution: This has nothing to do with wine. This morning, I was listening to Wait Wait on NPR today. That night, what did we drink?

Main | Want to Chip in For Latour? January 05, 2009 These two might have nothing to do with each other, or the fact that this is the first post of the New Year, tardy, as I have been felled by one of the Great White Colds, roaming the New York City streets of late, but here is my beginning of the year nonsequiter.

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The Sagrantino Adventure in Pictorial Thanks to the new FLIP, (sorry, I have not mastered the art of the edit) I was able to quasi document the adventure --traveling to California to help winemaker Kevin Hamel birth of what might be the only Sagrantino in America, belonging to olive oil meister, Ridgely Evers in Sonoma. The 3.5 The 3.5

Garys Friday night speech was manic and engaging, bringing the bloggers to a frenzy with his message that if they were not bringing in six figures from their site, they were screwing up. Contemplating this on the day of my speech as I was jogging in the tank, now up to my calves in purple juice, I realized that by Garys measure I was a slacker.

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home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « David Lett | Main | Guest Blogging for the New York Times » The 13.6 Alcohol Zin October 15, 2008 The New York Times wine panel liked the 2004 Gravity Hills Zinfandel. Asimov wrote, "This wine came in at 13.6 Water? I cant.

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home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « New Biodynamic Regulations Coming | Main | Disconnectivity in St. bundled up about 28 gamays or so; Beaujos, Loires, New York States, Oregonians and Californians. Over lentil soup and some fine local cheeses, I asked them about Gamay.

Main | New Biodynamic Regulations Coming » The Return of Airplane Wine (almost) August 23, 2008 Post 9/11, when I couldnt travel with a corkscrew I decanted wine into a water bottle. One night in May, when he was visiting New York I complained about the dry flight issue. In July he sent me a gift.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Monte Walden On Brunello | Main | New Biodynamic Regulations Coming » Demeter Europe/USA: A friend asks why August 11, 2008 I was preparing a petit djeuner for my friends Stephen et Bruno. He sat down to be served. The phone rang. Out of Area.

Find some winemakers who eschew new wood even on their syrah and pinot. Then this man at the table, John, a bearded New York City expat who lives not far from the San Francisco airport. Find some winemakers who eschew new wood even on their syrah and pinot. on the street? Its really not so hard. Fall in love. Eat a peach.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « P ** s New Buying Guide | Main | A New Look For Us? Find some winemakers who eschew new wood even on their syrah and pinot. Then this man at the table, John, a bearded New York City expat who lives not far from the San Francisco airport.

We had out first "man date" at Momofuku Ssam Bar , based on the New York Times' wine guru - Eric Asimov's recommendation. then ordered Burgundy to finish our main courses. I recently reconnected with an old high school friend on that greatest killer of time: Facebook. 2005 Dom. Denis, Nuits-St.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « My Night in Healdsburg | Main | Book Events This Week And July » Terroir Wine Bar & Merchant; the safe zone June 22, 2008 On Wednesday night in San Francisco I was finally in the safe zone. could feel myself relax. was with my people. What a surprise.

At least thats the feeling you get after reading the book The Battle for Wine and Love by New York writer Alice Feiring, out next month. newspapers, said in a phone interview from New York. To drink anything more ancient or unadulterated, youd have to dip your cup into a stream, crack a coconut or milk a cow. Robert M.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Finding Comfort in Cava and Philip Roth | Main | Japan and Natural Wine » Contemplating Roth After Days of Wine Tasting April 16, 2008 Like many others in New York Ive been drenched in tasting season. Today was Polaner. Best wine? Joseph?).

Here in New York Nero d'Avola, Sicily's most important grape has slowly crept into our vocabulary. The soil is mainly clay and sand with, I'm sure, a little bit of that volcanic soil coming from the east. From the south I chose to wax on wax off about the Nero d'Avola. For me there are two schools of Nero d'Avola.

had been learning all I could about French wine and because my blog focused on wines under twenty bucks my travels through the country via New York City wine shops eventually took me to Cahors. But I want to talk about a new malbec we just got in that goes even further into the days of Cahors. The answer is yes we do. Ca-what?"

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « I Give In To Temptation | Main | How Natural is Natural: the Debate » Come to a Reading? thats New York, eh? Reading with me that evening will be two memoirists; owner of the clothing shop D.L. Cerney, the utterly singular Linda St.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Long Island Explained | Main | No Wine At Alices Restaurant This TDay » What Does the Top Wine of the Year Mean? Asimov and Bruni are not telling anyone on this site anything new, theyre preaching to the choir. Clos des Papes Chateauneuf de Pape.

ordered "Rabbit Three Ways" as a main (roasted rack, lardo wrapped loin, confit of leg) - what to drink with this dish? I used to call this kind of post "Recent Sips," but I think I like this better. We went to Rosewater , a neighborhood favorite. Worth coming to from Manhattan, or when visiting NYC. Just take a look at their wine list!

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Degustations and Stations | Main | Send Signatures to Cornas » The Wine Cop Visits inoteca July 12, 2007 Ever since it opened, three years ago, Ive loved inoteca, the little wine oriented resto/wine bar on the lower east side at Rivington and Ludow.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « The Skurnik Tasting Report And a Krug Dream | Main | Handcrafted » The Wine Cop: Pure Food & Wine (and Bette) August 25, 2007 I love a great salad, especially in August with big, juicy, drippy, purple tomatoes standing in for a big, fat juicy duck.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « The Champagne Grapes of Wrath | Main | Sundays Quiz » A New Job For Karl Rove: Advising eBob? And poor David Lillie, the most honorable wine merchant in New York and possibly in the states gets undeserved upper right cuts.

FYI--FOOD STILL GREAT BUT THEY NO LONGER HAVE BYOB POLICY) 265 Lafayette St New York, NY 10012 Phone: (917) 338-6207 Comments try Falais Panetteria on the Lower East Side - Ive never had pastries so delicate and airy - and just fantastic. but makes the place even more charming. The best BYOB in town. Go while you still can.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Wine Babel | Main | Tre Bicchieri Rant » NYCs Best Wine Store & Wine Bar March 16, 2007 I was flattered into writing the best wine store and wine bar in New York for New York Magazine Best of New York issue last month.

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Le Pere Pinard | Main | Chateaubriand Take Two » Dive: Morgon Moments (Part #4) February 28, 2007 Lunch was a set menu kind of an affair, which at fancy food things means that theres nothing I can eat. Anyway, its lunch. dont like lunch. The 2005?

home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Assignment: Best Wine Bar in New York City | Main | Its Always Flattering To Be Blogged About » Domaine des 2 Anes, 04 Fontanilles February 05, 2007 This is one of those miracle $10.00 wines. So, I plugged it up.

was fascinated by the food before going, in fact, the food was the main reason that I chose to go to that part of the world. I spent almost a year between 1996 and 1997 traveling in Southeast Asia. went to Viet Nam, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Sumatra, India, and Australia. It seems like so long ago now - more than 10 years. Happy curry

group of 6 guys sat at a large table loudly enjoying themselves, a suave looking middle-aged man dined alone, enjoying a half bottle of white with his first course and then a half of red with his main dish, and a handsome middle-aged blond woman sat at the table closest to the fire with her yellow lab for company.

On Saturday night we had a few friends over for dinner and I decided to try out a few new drinks from our bar. Because one of our friends inexplicably and foolishly refuses to eat meat, we served fish as a main course (he's a " pescaterian" ). Some darn good eatin' and drinkin' this weekend, yeah. For $14, what more can you ask?