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Harvey Steiman
Wine and Cheese: Think White
Posted: 12:29 PM ET, 06/24/08
Long experience has taught me that white wines perform better with more cheeses than reds do, so it brought a smile to my face to read a news story this morning on Reuters about how the winegrowers of Alsace are promoting their (mostly white) wines as perfect matches with cheese. Read more
James Suckling
Reliving a TCA Moment
Posted: 11:55 AM ET, 06/24/08
I had a 1989 Ducru-Beaucaillou last week for dinner with a friend, and it wasn’t very good. I had asked her to go down to my cellar and pick out something to drink and she came up with the bottle of the 1989 Ducru. She is new to Bordeaux wines, so she had no idea that the 1989 Ducru is infamous, along with the 1988 and 1990. Read more
James Laube
A Smoky Weekend In Napa Valley
Posted: 05:12 PM ET, 06/23/08
I noticed a cloud of white puffy smoke rising to the east at about 6 p.m. on Saturday. I knew right away it was a fire. Too hot and windy for delta fog to be creeping over the hill into Napa.
It wasn’t clear where the fire was, since I was in Sonoma, which is west of Napa. Read more
Bruce Sanderson
Heading South in Burgundy
Posted: 04:05 PM ET, 06/23/08
Tuesday was cloudy, and a light sprinkling of rain dotted the windshield on the drive to Chassagne-Montrachet. By mid-day, the sun came out and the temperature rose.
My first stop of the day was Domaine Morey-Coffinet, where I was greeted by Michel Morey and his wife Fabienne. Read more
James Molesworth
Day 4: The Drive For Five In Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Posted: 01:57 PM ET, 06/20/08
As good as Mordorée and Lafond are, I couldn’t stay in Tavel and Lirac forever; that other town kept calling me back. The sun was shining from the start today, and the temperature quickly rose into the 90s, relieving the stress that had built up among vignerons over the wet and gray weeks that preceded my trip, so what better to do than check in at five of Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s best domaines?
An early morning visit with Marie-Joseph Michel at Le Vieux Donjon was up first. Read more
James Laube
Napa's Chicken Ranch to Cult Wine Central
Posted: 01:27 PM ET, 06/20/08
If you build it, they will come, or flock as it might be considered.
"It" is, after all, what the locals in Napa Valley still refer to as the Chicken Ranch. It was once one of Lambert Farms key chicken coops, though it hasn’t been home to chickens for some time. Read more
James Molesworth
Day 3: From Châteauneuf to Tavel
Posted: 12:14 PM ET, 06/20/08
Domaine Vacheron-Pouizin, located in the northern end of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, on the back road heading north from Château Rayas, is owned and run by Sylvie Vacheron. The domaine was bought by Vacheron’s grandfather in 1939, but World War II prevented it from functioning as an estate. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Wine and Salad
Posted: 11:44 AM ET, 06/20/08
I practically live on salads when the weather gets warm. And despite the old saw that wine doesn't go with salad, I'm not giving up my glass of the grape just because dinner has some cold veggies in it.
In her 21st cookbook, Mediterranean Fresh (Norton, $30), Joyce Goldstein has collected some of the most enticing salad dishes I've seen in a while. Read more
James Suckling
Real Deal Pinot Grigio and Dinner Alfresco at My House
Posted: 04:23 AM ET, 06/20/08
I had this year's first outdoor dinner in my courtyard in Tuscany last Wednesday. The weather has been so cold and wet so far this summer. As one wine producer told me the other night at dinner, “If the weather doesn’t change for the better, we are going to make water and not wine in 2008. Read more
James Laube
New Napa Cabernets Worth Seeking
Posted: 02:29 PM ET, 06/19/08
I have an answer to one of your pressing new-wine queries. But the other wine so many of you have been curious and patient about, well, it hasn’t passed my way yet.
Ovid 2005 is every bit as good in bottle as it tasted out of barrel a year ago. Read more
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