http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room Ray Isle's Wine Blog en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:41:41 -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/2009/8/18/Wine-and-Waves-in-South-Africa 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... News Vintners Winemakers Red Wine Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:14:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/18/Wine-and-Waves-in-South-Africa Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/5/12/Sojourn-Cellars-Impressive-Pinots--Cabernets If you've read through our just-released June issue you may know that I spent some time a little while back engaged in a cork-taint sniff-off with a Labrador named Ziggy. A fun story to write—but I didn't get to run a picture of Ziggy a... Vintners Wines Above $40 Red Wine Wines $20 to $40 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:02:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/5/12/Sojourn-Cellars-Impressive-Pinots--Cabernets Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/2/6/Mad-Geniuses-of-Wine A funny and characteristically sharp post by Alder Yarrow of Vinography about the assorted crackpots of the wine world called to mind the dinner I had just the other night with Ales Kristancic, the off-the-wall visionary behind the Slovenian winery M... White Wine Vintners Wines Above $40 Chefs Wines $20 to $40 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:26:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/2/6/Mad-Geniuses-of-Wine 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/2007/6/29/Regatta-on-the-Douro It was a pleasantly sunny afternoon when the gun went off to start the annual barco rabelo regatta on the Douro this past Sunday (we're going to be bouncing around in time a bit with these Portugal entries; bear with). I'd abandoned my usual ... [More] Vintners Pairings Dessert Wine Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:13:48 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/6/29/Regatta-on-the-Douro Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/4/23/Good-Wine--Health-News-and-Cornas Resveratrol? Old hat. Now, according to this University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine press release, it's been determined that red wine (as well as various other fruits and vegetables) contains the anthocyanidin C-3-R—that's cyanidin... News Vintners Wines Above $40 Red Wine Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:32:28 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/4/23/Good-Wine--Health-News-and-Cornas Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/4/10/Late-Night-with-Spanish-Winemakers Out for dinner with a trio of Spanish winemakers last night at Tia Pol—a meal that started late, and then went on way too late, with all three winemakers winding up outside on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant, smoking cigarettes and drin... Restaurants White Wine Tastings Vintners Winemakers Wines $20 to $40 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:27:19 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/4/10/Late-Night-with-Spanish-Winemakers Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/28/Idaho-Wines Bizarrely enough, given my recent post about the new Snake River AVA, it turns out that my colleague, Emily Kaiser, happened to have a couple of cases of Idaho wines sitting here in her office, waiting to be tasted (in anticipation of an upcoming tri... Tastings Vintners Wines Above $40 Red Wine Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:06:44 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/28/Idaho-Wines 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/2007/3/15/Chasseur Had dinner last night at Telepan with Bill Hunter, the owner (along with Billington Imports, in some capacity) and winemaker at Chasseur. Bill's a bluff, friendly, no-nonsense sort of guy who happens to make some pretty extraordinary Chardonnays ... Winemakers Vintners White Wine Tastings Sommeliers Chefs Pairings Wine Lists Restaurants Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:47:28 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/3/15/Chasseur 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/2007/2/26/Gaja-Tasting A brief meeting with Gaia Gaja today, daughter of Angelo (Her comment: "Yes, it is a democracy at our winery up to a certain point. And then it is not!" This was said with great affection, of course.) We tasted the 2001 Barbaresco and the 2... Tastings Vintners Red Wine Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:08:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/2/26/Gaja-Tasting Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/2/5/Hope-Spring-Eternal So here I've got this spiffy new blog; seems only appropriate to say welcome, and explain a bit about what's going to be on here. Much of it will be alerting people to great new wines that I taste in our handy-dandy wine tasting room (around ... Wine Shops Tastings Vintners White Wine Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:12:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/2/5/Hope-Spring-Eternal Ray Isle