http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room Ray Isle's Wine Blog en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:00:23 -0500 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:39:02 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/22/Revisiting-a-Classic In my October column on 50 of the classic wines of the world, I singled out Castello di Monsanto's renowned Il Poggio bottling as a defining example of Chianti. So it was good fortune, or weird coincidence, or something, that Monsanto's Laura... Tastings Vintners Wines Above $40 Vineyards Red Wine Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:39:02 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/22/Revisiting-a-Classic Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/2/19/Martinborough-Pinot-Noir Not long ago I was in New Zealand, and got a chance to visit a number of winemakers in the Martinborough region. Martinborough has a simple problem—it sounds a lot like Marlborough, the much larger and more well-known region on the South Island... [More] Tastings White Wine Red Wine Wines Above $40 Vineyards Wines $20 to $40 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:23:26 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/2/19/Martinborough-Pinot-Noir Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/12/19/LastMinute-Wine-Gifts Of course, that's last minute for some people. For me, I think skating close to the gift-giving edge of disaster adds spice to life. Especially when it involves fighting through mobs of other time-challenged shoppers. Hey—hands off that bot... [More] Red Wine Holidays Vintners Vineyards Wine Books Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:50:40 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/12/19/LastMinute-Wine-Gifts Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/10/10/CalItal-Take-Two 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 ... White Wine Winemakers Vineyards Wines $20 to $40 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:49:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/10/10/CalItal-Take-Two Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/27/Cows-vs-Grapes KRISTV, a news station in Corpus Christi, TX, has reported on a growing conflict between ranchers and grape growers near the town of Driftwood, in the Texas Hill Country. Seems the ranchers are fond of zapping their grazing land at the end of the sea... News Vintners Vineyards Restaurants Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:12:57 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/27/Cows-vs-Grapes Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/9/Etude-Tasting Continuing on this odd all-Pinot all-the-time run I seem to be on, I met yesterday with Tony Soter, the founder and for many years main winemaker of Etude, and Jon Priest, who's now taken over the winemaking duties at the brand. The interesting r... Tastings Vintners Wines Above $40 Winemakers Vineyards Red Wine Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:49:18 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/9/Etude-Tasting Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/1/Encyclopedic-Grape-Info In case you want to know everything there is to know about, say, the Noiret grape variety—for instance that it's a mid-season red wine grape that's a complex interspecific hybrid resulting from a cross made in 1973 between NY65.046... News Vineyards Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:05:15 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/1/Encyclopedic-Grape-Info Ray Isle