http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room Ray Isle's Wine Blog en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:00:43 -0500 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:47:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/11/9/Bordeaux-Blowout-at-Hand Interesting article on Yahoo today (by way of AFP) about Diageo Chateau & Estates's apparent decision to get out of the Bordeaux market and what's likely to happen to Bordeaux prices as a result. Necessary reading, if you drink or collect... News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:47:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/11/9/Bordeaux-Blowout-at-Hand Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/27/Rocks-in-Your-Mouth A group of geologists in Oregon have a few skeptical things to say about the notion of "minerality" in wine, the Southern Oregon Mail Tribute reports. They've got a good point or two—that the amount of actual minerals in wine is b... News Tastings Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:14:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/27/Rocks-in-Your-Mouth Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/27/Black-Tea-Vodka When angry colonists threw tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, they had no idea that their rebellion would eventually lead to the American Revolutionary War in 1775, or that it would inspire the creation of another kind of beverage in 2009: Absolut Vodka... News Recipes Tastings Spirits Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:20:53 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/27/Black-Tea-Vodka Alessandra Bulow http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/21/Red-Wine--Fish-or-Why-I-Love-Science So it seems that researchers in Japan have determined the cause of that horrible metallic super-fishy taste that occurs when some red wines are paired with fish. It's iron. Specifically, the amount of ferrous ion present in the wine. You can read... News Red Wine Pairings Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/21/Red-Wine--Fish-or-Why-I-Love-Science Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/20/Your-Tongue--Bubbles There's a fascinating article in the NY Times today about how the tongue perceives the particular taste of carbonated beverages—a category that includes sparkling wines. Evidently, it isn't the prickliness of the popping bubbles that gi... News Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:02:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/20/Your-Tongue--Bubbles Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/15/Twitter-Wine Yes, oddly enough, social networking phenomenon Twitter is coming out with a wine (full story from the SF Weekly blog here). No idea how good the juice is, as it won't be bottled until August of 2010, but the proceeds are going to a good cause&#8... News Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:04:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/15/Twitter-Wine Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/13/Wine-Vs-Wrestlers Yes, it's come to this—as the LA Times reports here, wrestling mogul Vince McMahon and his World Wrestling Entertainment company are taking legal action against the Philadelphia-based American Wine Foundation to prevent it from referring to... News Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:02:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/13/Wine-Vs-Wrestlers Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/2/One-Winner-Buys-Another Just heard that F&W American Wine Award winning winery Cliff Lede (the 2007 Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc won in 2008) has gone and snapped up F&W American Wine Award winning winery Breggo Cellars (Best New Winery of the Year, 2008). Apparently ... News Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:50:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/10/2/One-Winner-Buys-Another Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/21/Balvenies-New-LimitedEdition-Whiskey When a friend invited me to a five-course, whiskey-paired dinner at Eleven Madison Park last Wednesday, I hesitated before accepting. I’ve been to plenty of wine- and beer-paired dinners, but sipping whiskey through a meal sounded a little inte... News Tastings Spirits Biodynamics Pairings Restaurants Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:41:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/21/Balvenies-New-LimitedEdition-Whiskey Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/16/Beer-News-from-Samuel-Adams Yesterday I sat down in the Food & Wine tasting room with Samuel Adams founder and brewer Jim Koch to try some of his latest releases. After two years of tinkering, Koch has perfected the recipe for his new Coastal Wheat. The idea was to bottle t... News Beer Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:39:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/16/Beer-News-from-Samuel-Adams Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/14/Ommegangs-Brew-News Last night, supertalented chef Bobby Hellen of NYC's Resto teamed up with Phil Leinhart, the brewmaster at Cooperstown, New York’s Ommegang brewery, for a gluttonous, nose-to-tail feast. It was the first of a series of Zagat-sponsored, craf... News Beer Chefs Pairings Restaurants Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:50:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/14/Ommegangs-Brew-News Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/3/A-Wealth-of-Champagne-Information I think the advent of September, and, thankfully, a breath or two of cool breeze in NYC, has gotten me thinking about Champagne. (Of course, simply waking up in the morning can make me think about Champagne.) In any case, lately when I think about Ch... News Champagne Sparkling Wine Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:57:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/3/A-Wealth-of-Champagne-Information Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/24/FreshHop-Ales Writer Christian DeBenedetti, who reported on San Diego’s craft-beer scene in our June issue, recently took a trip to the Hamptons in New York to harvest hops (the delicate green flowers that give beer flavor). Here, he tells what beer lovers c... News Beer Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:34:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/24/FreshHop-Ales Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/19/Drinking-Through-a-Recession Yesterday on WNYC, radio host Leonard Lopate discussed the subject of running a restaurant during this recession with chefs Daniel Boulud of Manhattan’s DBGB Kitchen & Bar and Sosie Hublitz of Brooklyn’s Watty & Meg, as well as Na... News Chefs Restaurants Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:24:56 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/19/Drinking-Through-a-Recession Emily McKenna 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