February 2007
Posted: Feb 28, 2007 9:46am ET
Yesterday, I caught up with Alejandro Hartwig, owner and winemaker of Chile’s Santa Laura winery in the Colchagua Valley, in my New York office. Hartwig is working his way back into the market after dealing with TBA contamination at his winery, which first showed up in his 2001 vintage.
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Posted: Feb 26, 2007 12:30pm ET
If you're going to call critics or guidebooks on something you feel they got wrong, then you have to learn to give them credit when they get it right. I was among those who thought the Michelin guides entered the New York and San Francisco markets with a whimper, hampered by a preference for classic French cooking that limited their ability to judge the panoply of restaurants these two great cities feature with an open mind.
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Posted: Feb 23, 2007 12:08pm ET
I sat down with Álvaro Espinoza in my office today. Espinoza is one of Chile’s most talented winemakers (he also gets most of the credit for helping to sort out the Carmenère/Merlot mix up in Chile ), and after getting his career started at Viña Carmen , he went out on his own.
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Posted: Feb 20, 2007 12:44pm ET
Last week I was on vacation in the Caribbean, hence my silent blog. (Sorry, but I need a break while on vacation, unlike my prolific colleague James Suckling). The Caribbean offers sunny weather, on most days.
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Posted: Feb 9, 2007 10:07am ET
With the news today regarding Viña Errázuriz , a new front has been opened in the war on cellar contamination. South American wineries join California and France in having to deal with a problem that nobody wants.
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Posted: Feb 8, 2007 1:05pm ET
Brothers Frédéric and Daniel Coulon run the Paul Coulon & Fils estate in Châteauneuf-du-Pape (commonly referred to as Domaine de Beaurenard). I sat down with Frédéric in my office today—tempted by the vertical of the estate’s top red wine, their cuvée Boisrenard, that he brought.
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Posted: Feb 2, 2007 12:27pm ET
I sat down with François Lurton in my office yesterday to get caught up on his latest work in Argentina and Chile. Lurton is a member of a well-known Bordeaux family: His cousin, Pierre, currently manages Châteaus Cheval-Blanc and d’Yquem, while his father, André, still owns a few Bordeaux properties, including Château La Louvière.
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