1982 Riserva San Polo Chianti Clbuttico
Very nice winery I believe in Gaiole or Radda. Stacole was their importer, distributed by Atlantic...
How To Sell Vintage Wine
Hunt: My guess is that your right about Mondavi, I think when he opened up...
Good Wine Websites
newsletter or online service. Celebrity winemakers get invited to be queried. Most of the posters are admirers of Mr. Parker aka The Wine Pope and...
Adverts 'link' to binge drinking
Does anyone seriously believe that drink adverts encourage drinking? I don't. I think that being in a pub and socializing encourages drinking. Fact is everywhere you go...
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NEW YEARS DAY - Home in Tokyo (1-1-2006) With slow-cooked pork shoulder, apple-onion-vinegar sauce, black-eyed peas with fatty...
TN: New Years Eve Paillard, Leflaive, Ampeau, Gosset
NEW YEARS EVE - Robuchon (Tokyo) and a nearby bar (12-31-2005) For New Years Eve, we headed to Robuchon's Tokyo outpost with Cathryn's parents and her brother and sister-in-law. 1...
TN: Champagne Break Guy Michel and Eric Rodez
A BREAK FROM SHOPPING - Ebisu Garden Place -- R-Gath (12-31-2005) One of the things I love about...
TN: A Pacherenc and a Pommard
DINNER IN ARAI - French Restaurant at the Resort (12-27-2005) Tired kids, ski-fatigued adults, very slow service...and a wine list with about five red...
TN: Christmas Dinner
CHRISTMAS DINNER - At home in Tokyo (12-25-2005) Cathryn's parents and brother and sister-in-law were in town for the holidays. We also had Richard, Naoko, and the kids to join us for dinner...
TN: Varnier Fanniere BdB
CHRISTMAS MORNING - At Home in Tokyo (12-25-2005) As we were leaving to ski the next day, this would be our last chance to see Jonathan. Samantha, and...
How To Sell Vintage Wine
Depending on storage. the 66 BV is a clbuttic although I've preferred the 70--- the Sebastiani is vin ordinaire no matter how...
Chile's Finest
Gotta go with Ed, myself. The last Chilean wine I got excited about was a 1992 Santa Rita Reserve cab...
Family winery off to big start
Family winery off to big start StoneBrook is cranking By Mike Rutledge Enquirer staff writer CAMP SPRINGS - For five years, Dennis Walter had...
Our New Years Eve "As Good As It Gets
Our News Years Eve movie breastle would be "As Good As It Gets" - I would probably be Jack!!! For the past twelve years, the same...
Bias Towards French Wines
Here's a bit of the latest on Hillary & Jane Fonda, two bete noirs of the fundamentalists...I'm editing the truly obscene Sludge Report :Liaison between Hillary Clinton and peace activist Jane Fonda revealed. "I had...
Bias Towards French Wines
Gentleman: You've been had---- someone, not from afw, said I could not write like a rightwinger---Using Goebbels as a role model I mixed a minimum of facts and...
Bias Towards French Wines
Joe 'Beppe' Rosenberg" really let the dogs out when expounding....... Hell's teeth, Joe. You conveniently forget that there were Americans who collaborated with the Nazis. It was not...
TN: NYE & New Year's Day, mostly plonk
Amen, amigo! I went to a New Years Eve party I've been attending for years, thrown by a Taurus friend who really knows her wines and her way around the...
Pol Roger, Bret, Havens, Atalon, 7 Hills, Meerlust, d'Arche
Some notes from holiday doings: 1998 Pol Roger Extra Cuvee de la Reserve - haven't tasted any 1998 champers yet and was prepared to be lukewarm about a vintage reputed to be...
NYE & New Year's Day, mostly plonk
Its good you napped New Years eve. If you work & partee you'll end up like me. I had a Clipper City yesterday(turned down Duetz & other spritzers as...
Wine with Movies
We were working on a wine-movie pairing list for a while, which we floated by the group some...
TN: NYE & New Year's Day, mostly plonk
We took the redeye Fri evening from CA, arriving in NYC at 5 AM Sat. I don't sleep well on...
Bias Towards French Wines
Five things I do not like about the French or what they call their government 1, Collaboration with...
Bias Towards French Wines
Who first come across botrytis? Was it not a German? " Er, I think it was a Hungarian from Tokaji. "Somehow the whole world got the impression that the "best" wines come only from France, paying...
Bias Towards French Wines
I agree!!! So true also in Spain. 8 years ago (about the time I got interested in wine), I...
Bias Towards French Wines
Raymond I think you are touching on a lot of interesting points in a very confused manner. You cannot simply state that Sauternes or Trockenbeerenauslese as a category are tasty...
Bias Towards French Wines
Many a time I read that German wine labels are difficult to read and confusing but on the other hand, nobody rants about French labels. It seems everyone in the World reads French. As...
Vintages of Burgundy
Burgundy is probably the hardest region to get consensus on, as what folks look for vary widely. But my personal opinions that mostly seem to match CW include: 2000- rather early drinking...
Seasons' Greetings
For dinner last night we had 16 people. 6 of them were children of my sister in law and aged from 2 to 17 years old. We...
New Year's with Nils
Mike Tommasi Started off with Champagne by Drappier accompanied by Rˆkt Lax. The Anjou 83 by Touchais (of Systembolaget origin) was fine, beautiful amber gold wine, perfect balance, waxy citrusy aromas. The combination with...
TN: Bonnes Mares and Pinot Blanc make rose in Laguna
Wednesday Betsy and I went to 5 Feet, a Chinese-fusion restaurant in Laguna Beach. A nice place...
No One Knows the Truffle I've Seen
Happened to have a nice large black truffle that looked like it needed eating so we did an impromptu wine dinner to...
Costco wins a round...maybe
Jim welcome to macro-economics. One thing I should add is the its well known that many of the largest wholesalers especially...
Advise needed
I may be relocating Chez Beppe sooner than later (don't ask)---Besides trip-tastings notes back to 1982 I have a large...
Life is Good
After a few months languishing in a furnished apartment in Sherman TX watching my new home...
TN's Hanukkahmas Dinner and Ch. Burbank Chard
says... We An often "tough call," but it seemed that you handled it well. I hate the gatherings with a mixed bag...
TN: fatback of life
As in fat wines for cold times: the colder weather brings out the desire for...
TN's Hanukkahmas Dinner and Ch. Burbank Chard
So why is it that red potatoes still make white potato pancakes? :) I was dealing with...
TN: Holiday wines Barbaresco, CdP, Vouvray, etc
Christmas Eve Betsy prepared lechon asado, a Cuban pork roast. I emailed Manuel Camblor for some Cuban-food matching advice. He suggested a Burg with good acidity (he said a Gevrey had worked...
Xmas holiday wines Les Fort de Latour, Offerus, Beaune Marconnets, Gordons in Waltham
1995 Silverado Cabinet Sauvignon (two left) 1988 Chateaux de Beaune Beaune Marconnets. Last bottle from a case bought from the Wine Society in England 1990 Les Forts de Latour (half way through a case) 2000...
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