Tasting Room - Winemakers

Wine Week, Part Three

Megan Krigbaum — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:07:00 -0500

Obviously, last Wednesday was an epic day (as evidenced by the fact that it's taken me three days to blog about all of its goings on). The day began with New Zealand Riesling and Pinot Gris, shaded into Sauternes and then was pleasantly capped of...

Wine Week, Part One

Megan Krigbaum — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:03:00 -0500

This week, New York is overrun by fashion models, designers and those who have to be in-the-know for Fashion Week, with runway shows all over the city. Coincidentally (at least I don't think there's any connection, as winemakers aren't ex...

Argentinas Great Imported Winemaker

Megan Krigbaum — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:50:00 -0500

Alberto Antonini is one of the world's most influential winemakers, consulting on wines everywhere from his native Italy to Uruguay, California and Portugal. I recently sat down with Alberto to taste through a selection of wines he's consulti...

Wine and Waves in South Africa

Jen Murphy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:14:00 -0500

While researching a piece on the best wineries near beaches for a story that will appear in our October issue, I discovered that there is a die-hard community of surfing winemakers around the world, from Santa Barbara to Basque country. Perhaps the m...

Is Malbec Next for Long Island?

Kristin Donnelly — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:28:00 -0500

People have come to think of Long Island for good Merlot and perhaps to a lesser extent, Cabernet Franc. Sauvignon Blanc is also getting a bit of buzz. In new wine regions, producers and wine writers love to proclaim the new hot grape variety every f...

A Little Grenache Geekery & A Good Cheap Cabernet

Ray Isle — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:07:00 -0500

Chris Ringland, the star Australian winemaker whose eponymous and much acclaimed Chris Ringland Shiraz sells for a modest (ahem) $600 or so a bottle, stopped by the office the other day to pour a few of his substantially less pricey wines. (In the in...

A New Wine Must-Read

Emily Kaiser — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:21:00 -0500

Over on Mouthing Off, I've just posted about why Slate wine columnist Michael Steinberger's new book, Au Revoir to All That, is required reading for anyone who cares about food, wine or France (as an added bonus, it's well-written enough ... [More]

Friday Night Tribute to Alice and Olivier de Moor

Megan Krigbaum — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:08:00 -0500

Friday evening found me hanging out at the Lower East Side wine bar Ten Bells with a couple of friends who were in from Paris and with the wines of Chablis producers, Alice and Olivier de Moor. This pair has been making wine together in Chablis since...

Marcel Deiss: Great Alsace Wines

Ray Isle — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:59:00 -0500

So, I don't know where I've been, exactly, but there are something like 2,700,240,000 of those new 2006 nickels in circulation, the ones with Th. Jefferson facing forward and staring at you with spooky space-alien eyes , and I hadn't seen...

Quote of the Day

Ray Isle — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:21:00 -0500

Jean-Michel Deiss, of Domaine Marcel Deiss: "Every plant has the fantasy that it will grow to the sun."

Cal-Ital, Take Two

Ray Isle — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:49:00 -0500

Palmina's Italian Variety WhitesOn sort of an extended trip at the moment, one leg of which took me down to the Santa Rita Hills, currently the source of some of CA's best Pinots and Syrahs, and, as it turns out, unquestionably CA's best ...

Big Aussie Reds

Ray Isle — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:34:00 -0500

Met up with Australian winemaker Ben Glaetzer the other night for dinner at Gotham Bar & Grill, where vertical food is still vertical (the tuna tartare still has that tower of greenery rising above it, framed by two crisp cracker doodads) and the...

Arguing for Sustainable Agriculture

Ray Isle — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:28:33 -0500

Came across the transcript of an interesting address on the science of sustainable agriculture that John Williams of Frog's Leap Winery gave at the 2003 meeting of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture. (Yes, it's not breaking news...

Now Thats What I Call a Wine Dinner

Ray Isle — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:55:00 -0500

This is the week of our annual Aspen Food & Wine Experience, which for me actually starts on Tuesday night when Bruce Schoenfeld (consulting editor for wine & whatnot at our esteemed sister publication Travel & Leisure) throws his annual ...

Cool Wine Site

Ray Isle — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:53:00 -0500

So, this will be brief but to the point: you should go check out Sean Thackrey's website wine-maker.net, if only to glance at the pithy quote from Isak Dinesen regarding Burgundy that's on the home page. But the real treasure trove (for those...