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Pro tips for navigating dress codes of the wine world
Posted: November 15, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
Walk-around
tastings. Auctions. Winemaker dinners. The wine world has no shortage of social
gatherings, and with each event comes the seemingly silly, yet kind of
important question: What should you wear?
In these days
when hoodie-clad tech execs top the Forbes 400 and Malvasia gets more attention
than Meursault on Brooklyn wine lists, yes, you can wear whatever you want to
wine events. End of story. What's really important at these things is the company
you keep and what's in your glass, etc., etc.
But let's get
real. It's telling that many comments on Talia Baiocchi's blog post last week
about a new generation of Napa winemakers revolved not around stylistic
decisions in winemaking, but the clothes winemakers wear—specifically whether
it was apt to describe 1980s Napa as "linen-wearing." Clearly, this stuff
matters.
Nov. 15, 2012 Issue
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People
Winemaker Jacques Lardière is retiring after 42 vintages at the Burgundian house he helped build
Posted: November 15, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
Nov. 15, 2012 Issue
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Austin-based sommelier June Rodil seeks the unexpected while appreciating the classics
Posted: November 15, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
News & Features
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Matchmaking
A Sauvignon Blanc from France makes a great complement to this easy, satisfying dish
Posted: November 13, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
News & Features
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Dining Tips
A spicy, garlicky dish that pairs well with a Portuguese white
Posted: November 12, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
News & Features
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Matchmaking
Mashed potatoes made with olive oil makes a simple side
Posted: October 23, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
Blogs
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Mixed Case: Opinion and Advice
Do you Americanize wine names or use the authentic pronunciation?
Posted: October 18, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
In the past year, I've noticed an odd thing bubble up in pop music: artists talking about drinking wine they know nothing about. It happens in Frank Ocean's "Super Rich Kids" ("too many bottles of this wine we can't pronounce") and in André 3000's guest verse on Rick Ross's "Sixteen" ("we eat until our belly aches and then go and grab the finest wine and drink it like we know which grape and region it came from.")
Maybe two isn't quite an official phenomenon, but it does make a strange blip in an otherwise strong current of wine name-dropping fashionability in pop music (see: Cristal, Santa Margherita, Ace of Spades). The songs involve too many layers of role playing to know how Ocean or André 3000 personally feel about wine, but Ocean—or Ocean's character—got one thing right: Wine names can be maddeningly tricky to pronounce.
Oct. 15, 2012 Issue
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Sommelier Gianpaolo Paterlini built an award-winning wine list at his family restaurant
Posted: October 15, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
News & Features
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Matchmaking
Pair this warming seasonal dish with a red Bordeaux
Posted: October 9, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
Blogs
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Mixed Case: Opinion and Advice
Is black stemware to wine as Vibram shoes are to running?
Posted: October 9, 2012 By Jennifer Fiedler
When I took up running after years of playing team sports, I gave myself permission to not be competitive: no races, no time trials, no slippery slope to marathons. If I could do an around-the-park loop of 3.5 miles a couple times a week without collapsing like Scarlett O’Hara after a fight with Rhett, I was totally all right with myself.
This experience got me thinking: I didn’t necessarily want to get better at running, but what about a field where I did, such as wine? Had I reached a comfortable plateau with wine drinking as I had with running around the park and, if so, could some sort of equipment tweak raise my level of “fitness”?
