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Cover Story
Restaurant Awards 2007 Wine Spectator’s comprehensive guide to the most wine-friendly restaurants of the world features nearly 4,000 award winners, including two new Grand Award honorees
List of Grand Award-Winning Restaurants
New Grand Award Winner The French Laundry
New Grand Award Winner Palais Coburg
Wine Spectator Online Dining Guide A complete roster of our Award of Excellence, Best of Award of Excellence and Grand Award winners, from across the country and around the world
- Wine Spectator Online Wine Spectator Online’s newly redesigned Restaurant Search database will feature the nearly 4,000 restaurants in the 2007 Dining Guide, which you can search by location, award level, wine list pricing or strengths, cuisine type and more.
Features
Tasting Reports
Sauvignon Blanc California’s up-and-coming white delivers value and diversity, offering a style for every taste
- Wine Spectator Online Get great menu matches for Sauvignon Blanc in our online Recipe Search.
- Wine Spectator Online California Sauvignon Blanc Alphabetical Listing
Languedoc and Roussillon These southern French regions reveal distinctive and well-priced reds, whites and rosés
- Wine Spectator Online BONUS VIDEO: Coming Soon: Learn more about wines from southern France with Kim Marcus as he tastes some of the region’s solid-value reds and whites.
- Wine Spectator Online Languedoc and Roussillon Alphabetical Listing
Dining
Steak Houses, Redefined Chef-driven steak houses are changing the way Americans eat beef, offering options galore and more creative menus
- Wine Spectator Online BONUS VIDEO: Looking for something interesting to drink with your steak? Editor at large Harvey Steiman experiments with matching wine to different types of beef to find the perfect pairing.
Recommended American Steak Houses
Old School Steak-house chains stick to a tried-and-true formula, serving up sizzling meat and plenty of red wine
Know Your Cuts of Meat Study this guide to better navigate the complicated world of steak cuts
Events
Auction Napa Valley The annual event for wine lovers sets a record for a single bid: $1.1 million
Bring Your Own Magnum Wine Spectator’s BYOM parties in Sonoma and Napa herald bidding excitement
Departments
This Issue
Upfront
Wine lovers make their own bottlings; Australia’s Hunter Valley is hit by floods; Allegrini and a U.S. importer buy Poggio San Polo; big price paid for Sonoma Pinot and Syrah vineyard; GrapeVine
- Wine Spectator Online Keep up with breaking news as well as the people, places and happenings that wine lovers are talking about.
In-Depth
In Depth Review of The House of Mondavi
Tastes
Chefs talk organic; the world’s best cheddar; a tasting of chocolate ice cream; Charlie Trotter in a jar; Hey Diddle-Diddle
- Wine Spectator Online Learn more about organic, biodynamic and sustainably grown wines from Wine Spectator’s June 30 cover story, "Wine’s Green Revolution."
Dining Out
Dining Out San Francisco
- Wine Spectator Online For information on other great wining and dining destinations in and around San Francisco, visit our online Dining & Travel section and use the Restaurant Search to locate Wine Spectator Award winners.
Columns
James Laube The whine list
- Wine Spectator Online In his recent blog posts, James Laube has chatted with Bill Harlan and discussed why California Pinot Noir prices are rising.
Matt Kramer The price is right
Kim Marcus Hunting for Austrian Pinot Noir
Collecting
Late spring auctions bring in $45 million; Cru wine director Robert Bohr talks about the restaurant’s award-winning wine list
- Wine Spectator Online New FREE Newsletter: Our biweekly Collecting & Auctions e-mail newsletter provides ratings of collectible wines, answers to your collecting questions, auction news and more. Sign up or view a sample.
Wine Talk
Wine Talk Actor Michael Tucker
The Buying Guide
View a list of all tasting notes from this issue. Or for more than 205,000 tasting notes, use WineSpectator.com's Wine Ratings Search, where you can sort by region, variety, vintage, price, score and tasting date.
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RESTAURANT RATINGS Rate the award winners of our 2007 Dining Guide-our new Restaurant Search ratings system lets you hand out stars and comment on your favorite dining spots. EDITORS' BLOGS Read about our senior editors' travels as they head to top wine regions and write about their discoveries:
INSIDER AND ADVANCE RATINGS Get a jump on exciting new wines with our exclusive newsletters. The Insider provides a first look at our editors' latest tastings, while the Advance gives you a sneak peek at selected ratings from Wine Spectator's upcoming issue. |
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RESTAURANT SEARCH Our complete 2007 Dining Guide, with nearly 4,000 award-winning restaurants, is searchable with our newly redesigned database-now with photos and more information. VIDEOS Coming Soon: Watch clips that illustrate some of this issue's stories:
HARVEST REPORTS Coming Soon: Crush is almost under way-we'll provide updates on the expected quality of the Northern Hemisphere's top wine regions. NEW E-MAIL NEWSLETTERS Our four newsletters deliver essential information straight to your inbox:
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