Consider that their current release rosé is from the 2000 vintage (ten years older than the current release from Provence). tasted through their lineup at the recent tasting of their New York distributor, David Bowler. Why pay en primeur prices for young Bordeaux that won’t arrive for two years? Lopez de Heredia. MORE >>

grew up here in New York, my parents both grew up in the Bronx, and I had never been until a few weeks ago. Crabby Jack's in (just slightly out of, actually) New Orleans. Best was a Provence rosé, the 2011 Domane les Fouques Côtes de Provence La Londe , $18, Direct Import of Chambers Street Wines. More, please. MORE >>

Andre started his wine career in the 1980s with a brief stint at the New York City wine story Sherry-Lehmann, followed that with five years working for a distributor in New York. There was a pair of rosés from Cotes de Provence, Clos Cibonne. But they are not your mother’s Provencal rosés. Yeasty! MORE >>

Lately I've been exploring and enjoying the reds of Provence, a select group of Northern Rhone wines, and also the Poulsards of the Jura. We drank this the other night with Batch 35, a washed rind cow's milk cheese from a farm in upstate New York called Sprout's Creek. I've recently emerged from a bit of a "red wine stand-still." MORE >>

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. If you look at the left side-bar of this blog you'll see that with 2010, this blog enters its fifth calendar year. It was delicious. MORE >>