January 2010
2007 is a classic vintage for Port, comparable to 1977, but how long will you wait to open them?
Posted: Jan 26, 2010 12:00am ET
Wine Spectator senior editor James Suckling is tasting the 2007 Vintage Ports, now in bottle, and thinks it's a classic vintage, comparable to 1977. He also thinks Ports need a long time in bottle to show their best, but understands that some will open them early. How long do you wait to open a bottle of Port?
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Remembering some unexpected but nonetheless excellent food-and-beverage pairings
Posted: Jan 20, 2010 12:00am ET
I remember some great food-and-wine matches in my life, such as a roasted chicken with slivers of black truffle between the skin and meat with a vanilla sauce and served with a Domaine des Comte Lafon Meursault at Lucas Carton restaurant in Paris in the mid-1990s. Or, just thinking this morning in my pajamas, I remember tiny roasted birds in the kitchen of Alain Ducasse in Monte Carlo in the early 1990s with a bottle of 1971 d'Yquem.
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Discovering great new wines in this Mexican region and making it across the border with five cases
Posted: Jan 15, 2010 12:00am ET
It's hard to believe sometimes what some of us
go through for an excellent bottle of wine.
My best friend from high school, my nephew and I
drove down to Baja California, Mexico, over the weekend to pick up five cases
of wine I bought there about 16 months ago. It was a wonderful pure Grenache
made from 60-year-old vines in the main growing region of Los Valles de Baja
California-Valle de Guadalupe. I bought a barrel of the stuff with three other
friends, and we divided it up. The name of the wine is El Sueño-the dream.
I had been trying to figure out for months how
to get my five cases of wine out of Mexico.
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Reminiscing on "the wines that were" after tasting some older California reds
Posted: Jan 6, 2010 12:00am ET
Wine Spectator senior editor James Suckling tastes some aged California reds from Ridge and Freemark Abbey. He finds both wines impressive, and himself nostalgic.
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Predictions on what the upcoming year has in store for us in the world of wine
Posted: Jan 4, 2010 12:00am ET
Wine Spectator senior editor James Suckling is looking forward to 2010, and offers five predictions for the world of wine.
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