January 2008
Posted: Jan 18, 2008 10:20am ET
"Is it a flaw or is it the wine?" This is a question that I often think about. This is mostly because I am frequently accused of being too charitable toward wines that display any of a wide range of things that some winemakers and drinkers deem unacceptable.
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Posted: Jan 11, 2008 5:01pm ET
I say restaurant beware! Most certainly I am not trying to set off an epidemic of returns-for-no-reason, not in the restaurant I work in, nor any other for that matter. What I am referring to is the dated and, frankly, rude policy of “buyer beware” when it comes to buying older wines on wine lists.
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Posted: Jan 9, 2008 4:19pm ET
As 2007 has come to a close, I give pause to think about where I had some of my best meals of the year, and here they are in no particular order! Eleven Madison Park, New York I ate at Danny Meyer’s elegant Madison Square restaurant six or seven times.
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Posted: Jan 2, 2008 11:54am ET
In last week’s post , if you missed it, I let some arrows fly at Italy and its wine service. Today, I’m aiming closer to home. Let’s begin with France. Ah France! A country I love like no other. Nowhere do we see more of the most-beloved grapes reach their apogee than in this country.
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