November 2007
Posted: Nov 30, 2007 12:54pm ET
I sometimes just can’t understand why more people don’t get the fantastic quality of aged vintage Port. You hear about this Bordeaux from 1945 or 1982 or that Burgundy from 1959 or 1990 but Port? Nada.
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Posted: Nov 28, 2007 11:23am ET
We Americans can do some things in the restaurants as well or even better than the Europeans. In fact, we can sometimes beat them at their own game. I was thinking of that following a couple of dinners in two hot new restaurants in Los Angeles, Osteria Mozza and Comme Ça.
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Posted: Nov 26, 2007 6:00am ET
I hope you had a beautiful Thanksgiving. I sort of celebrated. I guess I have been out of America for Thanksgiving for too long. I lost the tradition while I was living in London when I was married. My ex-wife was English so it didn’t make a lot of sense.
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Posted: Nov 20, 2007 11:53am ET
It was one of the most memorable vertical tastings I have been to in Italy recently. Renzo Cotarella, the technical head for Antinori , invited me to taste every vintage ever made of Cervaro , the stylish white from the Antinoris' wine estate in Umbria, Castello della Sala.
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Posted: Nov 15, 2007 2:30pm ET
Sometimes I have to wonder what all the fuss is about with white truffles. Yes, the ultra-expensive fungi from Italy. Don’t get me wrong. They smell absolutely decadent and seductive, and shaving them on to many different things is as much fun as eating them.
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Posted: Nov 12, 2007 4:55pm ET
It’s the perfect imperfect wine – 1947 Cheval Blanc. I am sure most of you have heard about this legendary red. It’s ageless. It’s also priceless. And it’s also probably the most counterfeited wine of them all.
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Posted: Nov 9, 2007 10:50am ET
Cheval-Blanc has a unique style. It’s a wine that really has somewhereness to it, for lack of a better phrase. Or it is what the French say, “a wine from great terroir.” I love the perfumed and aromatic quality of the wine and its silky, refined texture.
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Posted: Nov 7, 2007 12:32pm ET
It¹s sort of weird that Pierre Lurton, the president of Château d'Yquem , said that his favorite dish with old bottles of his famous sweet wine is sweetbreads (riz de veau). He said that he particularly likes a slightly drier Yquem, like 1975 , with the well-known offal.
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Posted: Nov 6, 2007 12:35pm ET
The Chateau d’Yquem tasting I blogged about yesterday actually started Saturday night at Chinois on Main , Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant in Santa Monica. There were 13 different vintages of the legendary sweet wine with three French-Chinese fusion dishes for dinner.
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Posted: Nov 5, 2007 12:10pm ET
It was one of the most magnificent tastings of my life. Yesterday I had the amazing fortune to taste 15 vintages of the legendary sweet wine producer Chateau d'Yquem in Beverly Hills with a couple dozen wine collectors and wine merchants, at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant.
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Posted: Nov 1, 2007 11:37am ET
A couple of days after the BLT Steak wine debacle , I went to Sunday lunch with some friends at Union Square Café in New York City. I used to go there all the time in the early 1990s, but I had not been back in years.
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