WINE A Terrific Weeknight Bordeaux, Under 20 Bucks June 30, 2020 Sometimes you get lucky. Better put, sometimes you wander into a good wine store and you get a little good …
WINE LABEL ANATOMY: 2012 Clos Pepe Estate Pinot Noir June 28, 2020 New world wines tend to be a lot less confusing when it comes to labels. Not only are they in …
NEWS SPIRITS Update: Fundraising Efforts by Du Nord Craft Spirits June 26, 2020 Here’s a very entertaining update on the fundraising efforts by Du Nord Craft Spirits, in the wake of the Minneapolis protests …
SPIRITS WHISKEY WINE Here’s a Roundup of Re-Openings June 26, 2020 Last week, the New York Times had a great long piece talking with wineries, distilleries and other food-and-drink related businesses …
WINE Napa Expert Kerrin Laz Starts Her Own Label June 26, 2020 The former wine director at Napa Valley’s gourmet purveyor Dean & DeLuca (now Gary’s Wine & Marketplace), Kerrin Laz today …
GEAR ESSENTIALS: Pairing Wine and Cheese June 25, 2020 Last month, the government of France called upon its citizens to eat more cheese. With millions under confinement, French cheesemakers …
WINE White Wines Worth Traveling For June 24, 2020 Greece is an unlikely pandemic success story—so successful in its handling of COVID-19 that it is one of the few …
WHISKEY America’s Glorious “Scottish” Revolution June 23, 2020 Whether or not you can call something “scotch” is something of an academic argument. Well-made single-malt all-barley whiskies are crafted …
SPIRITS Appreciating Calvados June 22, 2020 Marcel Proust was a fan. So was the great New Yorker writer, the acidic A. J. Liebling. But those fellows …
WINE ESSENTIALS: Rosé! June 21, 2020 Dry rosé: What’s not to love? It’s a light, crisp option with some body and a distinctively fruity nose that …
WHISKEY Tasting Terroir: New York’s Hillrock Estate Distillery June 19, 2020 Co-owner Cathy Franklin tells me over the phone that Hillrock Estate, the distillery she runs with her husband, Jeffrey Baker, …
GEAR Bringing It Home: The Luggage You Need for Your Bottles June 18, 2020 There will be travel again. With any luck, sooner than we think—a circumstance which, for an oenotourist like me, raises …
WHISKEY The Balvenie Sits in the Single Malt Sweet Spot June 17, 2020 Born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland, Neil Strachan started in the hospitality industry in the kitchen at the age of …
WINE TASTING NOTE: 2015 Ramey Sonoma Coast Chardonnay June 16, 2020 Last week, I visited a restaurant for the first time since what everyone seems to be calling “The Before.” We …
WHISKEY For Bloomsday, a Proper Toast to James Joyce June 16, 2020 In 1927, with his eyesight failing, James Joyce despaired about finishing the book he’d begun writing five years earlier. It …
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