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James Suckling
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Posted: 01:03 AM ET, 08/12/08
I blew my top a bit about an hour ago. I had saved two half-bottles of wine that some friends brought to dinner on Friday that I wanted to blog about. But apparently my cleaning lady either threw them out or drank them!
Anyway, Mike Figgis, the British film director, and his girlfriend, pianist Rosey Chan, came for dinner on Friday night, and Rosey brought a couple of half-bottles to serve me blind. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Want to Buy an Aussie Winery?
Posted: 10:24 AM ET, 08/11/08
Constellation Brands announced this week that it wants to sell three of its Australian winemaking facilities and lay off about 350 workers there. The announcement makes a lot more sense in the context of a conversation I had about a month ago with James Mariani, family proprietor of Banfi Vintners. Read more
James Laube
Harvest 2008: Green Thumbs Remove Green Berries
Posted: 01:00 PM ET, 08/08/08
Martha McClellan Levy talked yesterday about the loose clusters and small berries in the Levy & McClellan vineyard in Napa Valley. Then she showed one of the challenges facing winegrowers this year: uneven ripening and how some clusters still have green, immature or underripe berries among riper ones, and those need to be removed. Read more
James Laube
Seven Stones Is Art and Wine
Posted: 04:38 PM ET, 08/04/08
Napa Valley winery Seven Stones is in the middle of a mild controversy.
Located above Meadowood Resort, Seven Stones takes its name from a 100,000-pound granite sculpture created by Richard Deutsch that is indeed seven huge blocks of rock, taken from a quarry near Yosemite National Park. Read more
Harvey Steiman
A Tale of Two De Bortolis
Posted: 03:34 PM ET, 08/04/08
When it comes to sweet wines, Australia might be best known for what used to be known as liqueur Muscat and and Tokay. Those are fortified wines, now simply known by their correct varietal names, Muscat and Muscadelle.
De Bortoli, one of Australia's largest independently owned wineries, makes an exceptional wine in the other notable sweet wine style, from botrtytis-affected grapes. Read more
James Suckling
When Bordeaux Doesn't Taste Good
Posted: 12:59 PM ET, 08/04/08
It's absolutely boiling in Italy at the moment. It's about 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and it cools down to the high 70s or low 80s at night. I eat alfresco most every night. A crisp white from Alto Adige seems to fit most nights, although a red sometimes comes out of my cool cellar, which is about 65 degrees Fahrenheit with the air conditioner on. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Beyond the Restaurant Shuffle at Palmilla
Posted: 01:52 PM ET, 08/01/08
Charlie Trotter is out and Jean-Georges Vongerichten in at the One & Only Palmilla, one of the top luxury resorts in Mexico, but that's only half the story.
A terse announcement earlier this week from Palmilla, the posh resort in Los Cabos, said that Trotter's five-year contract to run C, the featured restaurant there, would not be renewed when it expires in September. Read more
James Laube
A Lake That Shapes Great Napa Cabernet Sites
Posted: 11:53 AM ET, 08/01/08
Yesterday, while touring vineyards with Celia Welch Masyczek, we visited one of her Cabernet sites, Sage Hill Vineyard. This is the former Long Vineyards property and is several hundred feet in elevation. It’s one of three vineyards she uses for her Corra Napa Valley Cabernet. Read more
James Suckling
The Mother of Teroldego
Posted: 11:01 AM ET, 08/01/08
I guess sometimes it doesn't matter if people don't know what grapes you use in a wine, as long as it is a great one. The thought occurred to me earlier this week when Elisabetta Foradori came for dinner at my house, and we tasted some of her "top-of-the-charts" wines : 1997 and 1991 Granato. Read more
James Molesworth
A Mini-Guigal Vertical Shows an Evolving Style
Posted: 04:02 PM ET, 07/31/08
E. Guigal doesn’t need an introduction—anyone who follows wines even casually knows that this is the dominant négociant house in the France's Northern Rhône Valley. In particular, E. Guigal’s Côte-Rôtie bottlings, led by it’s famed "La La" trio, have brought the house its greatest recognition. Read more
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