The other night I had dinner with a few friends at a favorite Japanese restaurant. This is a place where diners select almost none of the dishes they will eat - the chef chooses, and it is not a sushi place. It's more of a home cooking situation. I'd never had a Pelaverga before. When would we drink this wine, I wondered. She was right.

About 50 or 60 wine lovers came together to celebrate Austrian wine the other night at Seasonal Restaurant in midtown Manhattan. But I see German wines far more often at restaurants and when friends get together. That's right - Austrian wine, La Paulée style. Importer Carlo Huber and Seasonal Executive Chef Wolfgang Ban.

In those days, wine was basically carted by cask to a restaurant or people filled up bottles from the winery to take to their homes. Ah, Rioja! All those years spent at the International Wine Center studying the differences between the soil of the Rioja Alavesa above the Elbo river, and the Rioja Baja and Rioja Alta finally paid off.

Grochau has cycled at a high level for about 20 years (he even won a race last year) but into the front-of-house in the restaurant business, which led him to make his own wine label, sourcing fruit from various sites around the state and making the wines in Portland. American wine under $15 is a difficult category. It glides in at 12.5%

The front man’s identity at that auction is not revealed; the New York City restaurant that shipped empty bottles to his home remains anonymous and several collectors are mentioned but not named. Rudy Kurniawan, aka “Dr. Conti” aka “Mr. in March. So there are still some gaps to the story. The case is U.S.

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be the wine director of a restaurant? One can imagine the pleasures of having distributors visit your restaurant, bringing you fabulous wine to savor and discuss …. And after reading it, well, all I can say is that you’ll never walk into a restaurant the same way again. cheap #S#D?

Maria and Marcelo are excellent hosts, and we are sitting at a fashionable restaurant called Dante where the service is attentive and the f ood fabulous and the crowd -- while not exactly trendy -- is colorful and having a great time.  "What exciting wines!" The brand of these two wines is Km.0 Now here are some tasting notes. naked viognier.

To start, the restaurant is absolutely gorgeous and is a terrific showcase for their wines.  and a fireplace in the restaurant in case the weather is not as gorgeous as today. Of course, you MUST see the restaurant … it overlooks the vineyards and you can even see female peacocks as you have lunch! “What are those curious birds!”

They hand select the top-end restaurants and wine shops where people can buy their wines. “Welcome!” says vivacious Ana Pizzorno, with a bright smile and flashing dark eyes as she picks me up at the Montevideo airport. It had been a long flight from New York, and Ana’s enthusiasm to show me her vineyard makes it all worth it. Around $13.

fabulous experience today tasting the wines of Sartori di Verona at SD26, a fine Italian restaurant in Manhattan, where these excellent wines were paired with five courses. What made the tasting lunch so special was the passion of owner Andrea Sartori, who came across as a very traditionally-minded Italian of the classic world.

Not too long ago I had the pleasure of eating dinner at Fu Leen, the seafood restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown. Peter Liem organized a group of people to drink several special Sherries and to eat things like lightly steamed fresh shrimp, fried dungeness crab, steamed whole fish, and fried rice with salted fish. my stars.

It is such a brand that when you order it in a restaurant or buy it in a store for a gift, your guests knows exactly how much you care for them. So after visiting the three champagne festivals, I was lucky enough to get a VIP tour of Champagne G.H. Mumm in Reims. Mumm is right in the city - I took a cab. Do you have a poster?" years.

It is the same glamorous red-themed restaurant where the CIVC took educators in November, yet upstairs. Wow it is so exciting to be here and meet the growers. am in Epernay at the Terroirs & Talents de Champagne tasting at the Au Restuarante Theatre.  On the way to my hotel Clos Raymi in Eperney, the driver pointed it out to me. Sélèque.

The first event is  Terroirs et Talents de Champagne and  takes place in Epernay on  Sunday 15th April at the Restaurant Au  Théatre. I am SO excited to visit Champagne next week! heard about the three festivals on LinkedIn from Jiles Halling (My Man in Champagne) and he has been very helpful in helping me set up the trip. Maxime Blin.

"What a fabulous resource!". In contrast to a written book, this upbeat, engaging resource consists of many types of media, including videos (both long and short) and charts.  It is a valuable resource to a seasoned professional as well as a novice apprehensive about what to buy and how to order. and come off sounding like an expert!

You can see some early reports here: Tonight Hristo Zisovski, Beverage Director at the distinguished restaurant Al Fiori,  is leading a talk and tasting on "Wine Collecting 101" at the FIAF on 60th street in NYC (contact info follows below). Are you curious about collecting wine? As a journalist, I've written about the subject quite a lot.

Well, what else would you expect when having dinner with Jean-Michel and Jean-Charles Cazes at the restaurant inside the exclusive Cordeillan-Bages hotel in Pauillac. lively pair of guys that produce a radio show about wine, Chi Sun Lau and Wilson Kwok (Wilson also has a restaurant in Hong Kong). "Krug champagne!".

wonderful feeling to see "D'Vari" printed on a placard after a 2o hour journey that began with a goodbye lunch at the 7th floor restaurant at Bergdorfs and now sees us speeding away towards Sauternes on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. ah, the Bordeaux airport! Sebastian , a smartly attired driver in a black suit suit awaits me with a sign.

Fenton worked for a while as Bee-Keeper at Egg Restaurant , and Abraham was Director of Body Art at Cafe Grumpy. The Percivals found a wonderful spot for their restaurant. Restaurant Review FugedabouditI admit it, I was not looking forward to Taconic on Bedford. And so, we have Taconic on Bedford.

I'm excited to once again visit Le Sources de Caudalie during En Primeur, a gorgeous luxury resort with a top restaurant and healing, relaxing spa about thirty minutes from the main city of Bordeaux. You can read my previous posts about the spa, the restaurant, the resort, and its founders Florence and Daniel Cathiard here.

It is an 18 th century chartreuse house converted into a luxury hotel and restaurant, where Michelin starred Chef Jean-Luc Rocha's inventive cuisine, is paired with the wines of Chateau Lynch-Bages and perhaps another winery owned by the Cazes family, Château Ormes de Pez in Saint-Estèphe. Very soon I will visit Chateau Cordeillan Bages!

Restaurant Review SherryThis video, about 3 and a half minutes long, shows Sandro Piliego of Palo Cortado slicing Jamon Iberico, and discussing Jamon and Sherry. shot the video on my phone and of course forgot to turn it sideways, so sorry about the rather narrow picture.

Cedric, Yann, and Daniel take us to a fantastic lunch at an incredible restaurant in the mountains. My fellow MW student and I were honored to be invited to dinner with them at a very quaint restaurant in Sete, a region by the sea that is very popular in summer. Christian Seely just posted a video of blending at Mas Belles Eaux.

That LA Times is dropping stars for restaurant reviews? SPIT: Metrokane’s The Rabbit. Install a machine such as in the above video and you will really one-up your neighbors in the corkscrew department. SIPPED: reading. I’m 99+ points on that. LAT ]. NO LONGER SIPPING: wine bars. In Harlem, Nectar wine bar has closed. Daily News ].

Palo Cortado is actually a restaurant with a full menu, and it serves a wide and interesting selection of wine and beer. You can go there and have a "normal" restaurant experience, with an appetizer, an entree, and dessert. Emilio Hidalgo Restaurant Review Bodegas Tradición Sherryorder tapas, that's it. And there is tile.

50% of the attendees came from the international wholesale, retail and specialist retail segment, while the restaurant and the hotelier trade made up the second-largest visitor group. so I've been to the London wine far and now, just got back from ProWein 2012, International Trade Fair Wines and Spirits,in Düsseldorf, Germany. News prowein

About as silly as trying to prevent wine wholesalers who sell wine to NY wine stores and restaurants from going about their business if they have a warehouse in New Jersey. What if you could not buy a book at a bookstore in New York if it had come from a New Jersey warehouse? We can agree that would be silly. Prices would most certainly rise.

the iPad now has an app that's perfect for restaurants, lounges, wine bars and connoisseurs called Restaurant Wine List. Restaurant Wine List for iPad was developed by Automatic for NYC’s Metronome Hospitality Group. If you're a restaurateur and you're tired of constantly updating your wine list on paper menus, have no fear.

Anyway, I couldn't help but point out to my pal that Rego Park was within walking distance, and its incredible Bukarian restaurants. We ate a memorable and very large meal at Restaurant Salute (108th street and 63rd Road). This is a kosher restaurant owned by Uzbek Jews. Pure savory satisfaction. and spices. love them at Salute.

Jim Clarke , somm at Giorgio Armani restaurant had a couple of brews going when I spoke with him recently. One of the most exciting drink stories in America is the craft beer revolution and its related rise in home brewing. Indeed, Belgian breweries are even buying American hops. Home brewing is wildly popular, even among wine geeks.

"Welcome," says Antoine Blech of Opia restaurant in Manhattan, welcoming Jean-Jacques Bonnie of Bodega DiamAndes and his contingent. Like many of the most prestigious brands in Argentina, the family is based in Bordeaux, France. In 1996, Jean-Jacques's  parents Alfred?Alexandre Alexandre and Michèle Bonnie purchased Château Malartic?Lagravière,

These exhibits together with the comprehensive ancillary program, the central tasting zone and the successful “Wine’s best friends” special delicatessen show, will make ProWein 2012 again an international business platform for the specialist trade, the food retail and catering/restaurant industry. News prowein 2012

I've never seen a bottle on any of the auction sites or on restaurant lists - I've never seen a bottle, period. What would a bottle of 1993 DRC Echezeaux cost at a restaurant? The other night I did something that I have never done before, and most likely will never do again. drank a Marius Gentaz Côte-Rôtie. Sounds like a lot, right?

Over the weekend I was out to dinner at a nice restaurant and encountered something I hadn’t seen for a while: the iceberg wedge slathered in blue cheese and bits of bacon. My cousin assured me that is coming back thought not as comfort food as I had suspected, but as an ironic appetizer. Yes, ironic! food and wine

had dinner with a few friends and we each brought wine to the restaurant. At a restaurant in Boston I drank a bottle of 200 7 Didier Dagueneau Blanc Fumé de Pouilly. This is at the restaurant Herbsainte in New Orleans. Oh no, my friends, I've been a very lucky Brooklynguy lately, in large part due to the generosity of friends.

Patrizia di Benedetto learned traditional Sicilian cooking from her mother and in 1991, opened the Bye Bye Blues restaurant in Palermo – a great success from the very beginning, with its concentration on a lighter cuisine, using plentiful fish and vegetables and the fresh flavors of the Mediterranean. D'ALESSANDRO INZOLIA 2009.

Ferrarelle, the most popular sparkling water in Italy, brought World Champion Sommelier Luca Gardini to the elegant  The Leopard at des Artistes (one of Manhattan's top restaurants) to show the city's most influential wine journalists what to look for in a sparkling water. Maybe you should. Many other waters are artificially carbonated.

In this vein, Chateau Montelena just opened a “tasting room” in the Westin hotel in San Francisco; New Jersey also has many BYOB restaurants.). What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of New Jersey? Surely, the local wine, right?! For reasons of parity, that’s too bad. 938 annual fee. smallwinerytax.”

So you can imagine how impressed I was to hear the attractive young female sommelier at New York's five-star Le Bernardin restaurant artfully describe the aroma of a few wines we considered ordering. Quick! What is one of the most sensual, aromatic products in the world, right up there with exquisite perfume and exotic flowers? Well done!"

Charlie Trotter is one chef who put vegetarian cuisine literally on equal footing with meats since diners at his restaurant had a choice of either a meat menu or non-meat menu. My wife has a dilemma: she loves red wine and she is a vegetarian. Not too much. Mostly plants.”) Heck, there are even vegan bodybuilders ! food and wine

You can decant a wine that's stored on its side if you need to (in a restaurant setting, for example), but you have to be careful. If we're serving an old bottle in a restaurant to eight people, then yeah, it needs to be decanted. This is very exciting - how often does one get to drink a bottle that old? In my case, not very often.

Afterward, we had a group dinner in the elegant restaurant of the Bertrand winery. Lunch followed the presentation at a restaurant where we could taste more Blanquette de Limoux, along with some whites and reds. Gérard Bertrand owns five estates in the best wine regions of the Languedoc. Picpoul de Pinet is fabulous with seafood.

Virtually all of them have at least one restaurant, with most offering tours and some boasting museums or jeep tours. and the restaurants in these wineries are incredible! Curious to discover S. African wine? Though imports are high in the UK, it’s often difficult to find wine from S. Below are some key finidings: 1. Happy travels!

Owner Paul Boutinot (who calls himself a ‘custodian’) found the site after a ten-year search for land where he could grow biodynamic wine with a sense of origin and have a world-class restaurant. “Dazzling!”. The slopes of Schaapenberg boast a myriad of different aspects but south-facing ones predominate. Waterkloof. News S.

At La Motte, near the charming Huguenot-settled town of Franschhoek, you can do all of the above plus hike up incredible trails, tour an art gallery, visit a water mill used to make bread for the fabulous gourmet restaurant, and even buy farm fresh produce. It has just won best of Wine Tourism this year for South Africa. Fabulous visit!

They also tuck in a list of restaurants and shops with good supplies of aged Rioja (though how many will be modern?) After so much discussion of the Parker-Miller-Campo imbroglio (see a thorough recap from Monday here ), it’s refreshing to read about the wines of Spain again without thinking of “ no pay – no Jay.”

By that time Gyles had received an oenology degree at Stellenbosch University, and worked stints in South Africa and abroad, The first year they made wine at a neighboring property, with Thomas’s mother and grandmother visiting various restaurants to sell the wine. Welcome!” And of course, the Rabelais 07 is just as sumptuous as described ….

Glen Carlou and Backsberg are neighboring wineries in Paarl who kindly hosted me for a tasting of both wines, then lunch at Backsberg’s lovely al fresco restaurant. Backsberg has a very cool restaurant, where Harry and Arco took me to lunch. You can read more about the restaurant here. Two wineries being neighborly!”. News S.

Africa, we visit the Groot Constantia estate (the property is enormous, with two restaurants, a museum, manor house, various other structures, and of course a working winery) and are shown by Graciella, a charming woman who reveals the history - and mystery - of this fabulous estate. 296 simon s restaurant. Of course, in those days S.

"So here i am, at Ken Forrester's 96 Winery Road restaurant in South Africa!". In fact, today Anthony and I are meeting at a restaurant Mr. Forrester owns with Devon Valley wine maker Martin Meinert and Chef Kathy Romer- Lee called 96 Winery Road. Africa for many decades. During my recent trip to S. Chenin Blanc has been S. News S.

The wines are in many top restaurants as a way of building the brand, and the winery has many exciting events for visitors. "So what's the story with these gorgeous horses?" I ask Charles Hopkins, cellar master at De Grendel wines in Cape Town. Charles explains that this winery (they are called farms in S. link]. News S.

decorated the restaurant's red walls. "How theatrical!" Was the response as we entered the red velvet walls of Le Theatre in Epernay, a charming town with its petite pretty parks and Belle Epoque buildings. 18th century Paris and some modern romantic arty types of pieces (silouttes anyone?) Welcome!" worrying about minding my p's and q's.

” It’s an interesting idea to have restaurants vary corkage fees depending on whether they like a diner’s wine–how much for Chateauneuf du Pape at Masa? SIPPED and SPIT: saber rattling. On his web site, Robert Parker threatens to sue over the recent revelations. Jim Budd pushes back against such a prospect.

On this visit I discovered some fabulous producers and it is always thrilling to find oneself in a restaurant or a wine store, recognize the label on the wine bottle, and have fond memories of the visit. "I like a good farmer!" says Jeanne-Marie De Champs, owner of Domaines et Saveurs Collection in Burgundy. I have told her.

I begin, naming an expensive restaurant in New York. And they would indeed cost a fortune at Jean-George, yet at that restaurant I would have the luxury of really savoring them. La Maltroye. It is high on a hill, with a gorgeous view of the village and darkening sky. And there's something a bit mysterious about it. I love your wines.

Corrine had a very glamorous life before AXA, working as a top sommelier and wine director for several prestigious restaurants in London and the world. Our lunch was catered from the well-respected and very popular Au Bonheur du Palais restaurant in Bordeaux. Lazlo arranged a dinner at one of his favorite restaurants, ?s

said the man at the next table, helping himself to a glass of the Soave I brought to a popular BYOB restaurant in Manhattan. like it is in France and Spain," said a friend, sharing a bottle of this wine with me at a trendy restaurant. Curious about what wine to bring for Thanksgiving dinner? Suavia Soave Clasico DOC 2009 Veneto, Italy.

Über-somm David Lynch will open a wine restaurant in SF where all sub-$100 wines will be available as 375ml for half price. SIPPED: Bordeaux brands. How big is your brand extension? Cheval Blanc, one of the wines in the LVMH stable, will include a Paris luxury hotel of the same name. Decanter.com ]. Oh my cot! SIPPED: diversity. SFGate ].

Off I rode to Le Mesturet, a local restaurant who was pouring Drouhin’s Beaujolais Nouveau. The 2011 Beaujolais nouveau debuted around the world this past Thursday. Much of it was airfreighted; American Tim Eustis discovered the lowest-carbon footprint version of the wine by riding his bike to six stores around Paris. By Tim Eustis.

Well, last night at the GastroArts Restaurant was the place to try it! Like Tempranillo? Ever tried an Oregon Tempranillo? Kevin Zraly, a world famous wine writer and educator, was at the helm of this special event to celebrate tempranillo.

Few people today know the story of how this traditional Argentine grape, previously grown as a low cost bulk wine for the local market, ended up in some of the highest-priced restaurants in the world. Like Malbec? The press loved the quality old vine Malbec, and voila! The multi-milliion industry Malbec is today. Related: Wines of Catena.

exclaimed a fellow particpant at today's Master Class tasting of Catalunya wines led by Josep Roca, Co-Proprietor, Sommelier, and Wine Director of the (Catalunya based) Michelin 3-star restaurant El Celler. The name means "market" in Catalan, language spoken in the Spanish region that inspired this restaurant and tapas lounge. Penedès.

SIPPED: restaurant advice. SIPPED: nap time. James Suckling tweets this picture and comment from Hong Kong: “Surreal picture of Bob Parker and @jancisrobinson at #wfhk11.” ” [ Yfrog ]. Start at the back of a wine list? SoYouWantToBeASommelier ]. WANTED: 1870 Lafite. CNN ]. SIPPED: Malbec for Porsches. Bloomberg ].

Mr. Basset MW explained he prices a similar wine at nearly 150 Euros and that the wines are very popular at his restaurant, Terravina. so now we are having beer (!) waiting for our 7pm dinner and what a fabulous day we have had at the Palais Coburg, viewing multi-million dollar wine cellars and meeting the celebrities of the wine world.

Would you like to be a sommelier at a leading restaurant in New York City? Are you interested in becoming a sales rep for a wine distributor with the area industry’s “highest salaries”? Or becoming a senior buyer at a chain of 78 wine stores grossing $1 billion? How about a senior PR position at a wine importer?

What follows is his detailed reply: Back in 2009, when I held the first of a series of Orange wine dinners at Convivio restaurant in Manhattan, [described as "easily one of the most fascinating and doubtless one of the geekiest wine tastings it’s ever been my pleasure to attend." Orange wines are sweeping the nation! Do they use aerators?

Not many restaurants – especially in this economic climate – can afford to have three dozen or so employees participate in a mandatory lesson on wines of the world and how to pair them. So very interesting to hear the colorful stories of people who sought out a winery, nursed it to fruition, and are now making a success of their wine. Hours.

We support the Joint Declaration to Protect Wine Place & Origin because place names are central to understanding the foods and wines we work with every day," says José Andrés, a James Beard Award-winning chef with restaurants in Washington, D.C.; Results from a recent poll of U.S. Key findings from the poll of 1,000 U.S. and beyond.

photo above by Alan Watts from Eat Italian Last week Ilaria Petitto from Donna Chiara Winery guided us through an evening of tastings from the Campania region of Italy at Il Gattopardo , a fantastic Campanian restaurant in NYC owned by the legendary Gianfranco Sorrentino. Medium to full body, cherries, prunes, spice, glycerine, raspberry.

Starting this coming Saturday, some of my favorite shops (and one restaurant) in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Westchester will be pouring wines from the Louis/Dressner portfolio to raise funds for Partners in Health. Wine importer lost his three-year battle against brain cancer last month. The nonprofit spends an impressive 94.3% 731 N.

And as they say in America’s finest restaurants: “enjoy!” Do you love the smell of freshly baked blog posts hitting your inbox every morning? Then sign up for my new “daily dose.” I’ve already done some troubleshooting with a couple of loyal readers and we seem to A-OK on all mail programs. Keep in touch!

The event was organized by those two folks and also by Rosemary Gray and Clara Rzeszewski, the Wine Director at Bloomfield's restaurants, and there should be more of these. Put top wine people and top chefs at top restaurants together and magical things can happen. Wine Director Clara Rzeszewski and Chef April Bloomfield.

The simple reason, according to Marnie, is that Champagne is too expensive for even a seasoned speaker like Marnie to order in a restaurant (and everyone else, too!). So a great presentation today by Marnie Old, who gave a talk for Wines from Spain "Great Match" at the Metropolitan Pavillion about Cava.

The people on the list, mostly wine directors at restaurants, don’t exactly champion tanker wine. They are trend-setters or at the very least someone who wants to help a diner or customer discover something new that they might only find at a restaurant or specialty shop. The category? Wines under $12. What do you think?

For one, the wines command very high prices, particularly wines from the top vineyards in Meursault and of course, the Montrachet (one of those wines you'll never see on a shelf - perhaps in a restaurant or at auction, and I imagine we are into 4-digit price territory). Comtes Lafon is one of the iconic domaines in Burgundy. Perfect. Perfect.

He works with retailers such as Chambers Street Wines in NYC and Terroir in SF as well as restaurants. This week, our “set of titanium corkscrews” award goes to Jose Pastor. And since 2009, he’s added another challenge: selling his wines without Wine Advocate scores. It’s also a philosophical difference over scoring.

He’s continuing the wisdom of this strategy at Ciano , where he is the wine director at the seven-month old restaurant. One evening, knowing a Rhone fan dining in the restaurant, he proposed a half of 1995 Henri Bonneau, reserve des Célestins, a Châteauneuf-du-Pape. King Solomon was known for his wisdom. Ciano, 45 E.

few more recent experiences, just to illustrate how often this sort of thing happens to me: --I drank a bottle of 2009 Huet Vouvray Sec Clos du Bourg the other night, a bottle that a friend brought to a restaurant. "I've learned enough to know how much there is that I don't know." This is an idea that I firmly believe in. Starkly different.

We are seated today at the exclusive Modern restaurant in Manhattan, where Executive Chef Gabriel Kreuther has drawn up a special menu to pair with each of the six wines presented today. "So this Prosecco actually tastes like a cupcake!" a lunch participant exclaims, tasting the Cupcake Prosecco from Italy. A bite-sized bit of fun. ".

So fun to catch up with Bernard Portet today over his new Heritance Wines at Apiary, a fun restaurant in New York. Bernard Portet on left, his son Olivier center, and guest at right. You probably already know Clos du Val, the winery that Bernard co-founded many years ago. More About Bernard Portet. Napa Valley that inspired him.

On a dark, rainy morning in Manhattan select members of the wine trade entered Benoit restaurant on 55th and were greeted with the best Champagnes and still wines in the world. "What a treat!". At the head of this all was Michael Feuerstein, owner of Selection Pas Mal. Still, all were fabulous. Truly, the wines spoil one for anything else!

Eric Asimov’s column in the Times today highlights ten restaurants with strong selections of wines under $50. What are notable restaurants you would add to the list? Wine under $50 certainly has obvious appeal. So which places can you cast aside your possible skepticism and order with confidence from the under $50 selections?

So there you are, at your favorite club or restaurant, sipping red wine and suddenly you spot someone you know! You smile and chat amiably, and only after you see yourself in the mirror do you realize you have Dracula teeth! chatted a bit with enthusiastic Giliian Conway, VP of Communication, about her family's winery.

said a friend recently at Brasserie Beaumarchais, a very fun restaurant with a lively club-style brunch. The restaurant scene in St. One visitor described it this way: imagine the most elegant restaurant your parents would take you to for a graduation lunch, only to see it turn into a club at the strike of three pm.".

Slate columnist examines the incredible suckiness of restaurant websites. SIPPED: English. “Drops of God,&# a serial comic book from Japan that is purportedly addictive and moves the Asian wine markets, will finally be published in English next month. Backgrounder ). SIPPED: horreur! Lafite actually declined eight percent since April.

Raj Vaidya, featured above, is Restaurant Daniel's head sommelier and I've been to many of his food and wine pairings, as well as interviewed him for many publications. sommeliers, because of his storied restaurant, priceless. Restaurant Daniel, DB Bistro, DBGB, Cafe Boulud, and Bar Boulud and wrote a fabulous book about wines.

Any restaurant that (a) has a credo; (b) has a credo in Latin; and (c) has a credo that relates to health is on a mission. In the three years since the restaurant opened on the Upper East Side, that question has been the domain of Pascaline Lepeltier. But she’s not a dogmatist. Chenin blanc is her not-so-secret passion.

The rioters moved on the Michelin two-star restaurant, The Ledbury , in Notting Hill yesterday. When word spread that the looters were circling back to the restaurant, the staff told diners to go to the wine cellar and lock themselves in. Best wishes to the restaurant staff and diners as they try to put things back together.

At a restaurant I don't say anything either, unless I'm served a wine in glasses that are plainly wrong, and even then only if I know that the restaurant has a better glass they could easily grab for me from behind the bar. very much like the woman who buys the wine there. Most sales are of the $10 variety, I would guess. Fugedaboudi

was eating dinner at Tsukushi, a great Japanese restaurant in midtown, and the chef served a small bowl of tofu and simmered daikon radish, both topped with a type of seaweed that I've never seen before. Wine can have a savory taste, I've experienced it countless times. And most Sherries aged under flor. Many Champagnes too. Ribonucleotides?

2006 Rudi Pichler Riesling Federspiel , price unknown ($59 on a restaurant wine list). Here are some notes on great wines that I was lucky to drink in July, mostly because of the generosity of friends: Equipo Navazos La Bota de Fino Nº 24 , $60, Eric Solomon Selections/Imported by European Cellars. Fantastic wine and worth searching out.

But some warehouses in the US and/or delivery trucks for the last few miles to shops and restaurants remain without temperature control, affecting foreign and domestic wines alike. These muggy days in the high 90s have New Yorkers sweltering. It’s also been an extremely hot summer in much of Europe. What can consumers do to avoid it?

News Restaurant Reviews Castello Banfi Belnero egolo Sartori Rosso Veronese di Ripasso from the heart of Valpolicella Classico region (the same as Amarone) leopard at des ArtistesFabulous evening last night at the Leopard at des Artistes! Very 'old school' Italian in terms of the elegance of service, with fish deboned tableside. Bar was.

My friend Albano, who owns a restaurant called Aliseo , came over and said hello. On a summer Saturday morning last year I was browsing the vegetables at Bill Maxwell's amazing stand at the farmer's market. came to a small bin of baby artichokes. So beautiful, I thought, but how on earth to use these things? Oh it's easy," he said.

This is probably because a lot of the Sherry that we buy at restaurants and retail stores hasn't necessarily been shipped or stored properly. If you became interested in Sherry sometime before the past few years, you might have learned some things that perhaps are not entirely true. This actually might be true of many Fino and Manzanillas.

On our recent vacation we dined one early evening at the Zerza Mediterrano Restaurant on 6th St. Wine from Algeria! Who would'a thunk. Ok, for some reason I may have missed this in Geography class. When I think of Algeria, I think of desert, sand, sun and boiling hot! Just right for growing red grapes, right? Uh Oh, where's the grapes?

Today Mr. Collins was visiting NYC and we had a chance to meet and taste some 08s and 09s, which are currently now in supermarkets, wine stores, and restaurants throughout the country. Jim Collins. As you may know, coastal regions in California are considered 'cool climate,' and 'cool climate' wines are premium quality. Salute!

President Obama dined at restaurant Daniel in NYC last night. SIPPED/NOT SIPPED: Presidential wine. Wine director Daniel Johnnes (pictured above, right) tweeted that the wine selections would include Sandhi Chardonnay made by his friend sommelier Raj Parr. He tweeted: “Sandhi means alliance. What could be better?&# SIPPED: bigg eurozzz.

People always love to know what a corked wine is so that they can send a wine back at a restaurant with brio, panache, and certainty. A group of friends that know each other through their sons’ school has a tasting every so often. We started with a manzanilla pasada, Pastrana vineyard, from Hidalgo La Gitana ($28). Alas, it was corked.

fabulous fete at Chateau Kirwan to pair classic vintages with the cuisine of Chef Philippe Arrambide from the Pyrenees Michelin star restaurant in Saint Jean Pied de Port. Chteau Kirwan 1998. News chateau kirwan