A bill is about to hit the floors of both the New York State Assembly and Senate that would permit supermarkets to start selling wine statewide. If the bill happens to pass, it would close out a thirty year argument in New York, one that has been neatly opposed by the state’s local independent wine shop lobby. […]
Get Over Yourself With Niagara Wine
The idea of heading north for the long immersion weekend on both sides of the Niagara wine region’s international border was not rocking my world. Despite looking forward to the vinous camaraderie of TasteCamp 2011’s wine writer gang, Niagara wines never competed for my attention or cellar space and doubt was raging that one weekend of […]
Top Five Hidden Wine & Other Treasures
I am an inflight magazine junkie, scouring the likes of Andrew Zimmern, Mark Bittman, Jason Oliver Nixon and other columnists in pursuit of the next undiscovered gem of a hidden local restaurant, hotel, wine shop, or hedonistic delight. I travel incessantly, coveting new months and issues, flipping to “tips” and “tops” pages with similar impatience […]
Clos de la Roilette & Ramps
Despite spending the better part of this weekend in Ontario tasting through a couple hundred Niagara wines, I woke up this morning with ramps on the brain. Not Pinot, Riesling, or Chardonnay…..just ramps. Each spring I’ll trip over an early seasonal ramp at some “farm to table” spot and turn fanatic securing a personal stash […]
Sur Lie and Bottle Aged Muscadet in May
Years ago on a bright seventy degree afternoon, moments after tying off our boat in the Camargue’s picturesque Marseillan port, I fell in love with Muscadet and its Melon de Bourgogne grape lounging in a simple oyster restaurant’s tiny outdoor courtyard. It was a magical few hours. I was taken by the wine’s satiating freshness, crisp acidity, […]
Top Three Wines of April: Alsace, Rhone, and Loire
With a clean sweep of “Top Wines of April”, I am reminded that if I could only drink wines from one country for the rest of my life, it would be France. These April winners prove that despite a weakened dollar and skyrocketing prices for in-demand Bordeaux, Burgundy, and top Rhones, it’s still entirely possible […]
Second Vintage in the Bottle: Another Year of WineZag
Today marks two years of WineZag and that’s a pretty long time in blog years, I think. For me, the end of both of those blogging years forced unavoidable reflection and moments of reconsideration for the massive time commitment dedicated to transferring wine experiences into keystrokes. Truth be told, WineZag is so intertwined in my […]
Case For Tasting Bordeaux, Barolo, and California Syrah
Tasting wine in peer groups always feels clinically informative, digging around for distinguishing nuances against identical backgrounds of grape variety, vintage, or appellation. It trains my palate and sharpens a vocabulary of descriptors. Tasting a potpourri of unrelated wines from completely different vintages, continents, countries, and varieties can be as discerning in different ways. I […]
Kitchen A Trattoria BYOB and 2009 Domaine la Garrigue
Eventually you find Kitchen A Trattoria discretely tucked away off a main street in St. James, Long Island. Worth the momentary measure of driving confusion, the restaurant delivers a top BYOB opportunity to pair Long Island’s most impeccably crafted, mouth watering, rustic Italian fare with your cellar’s treasures. Hundreds of miles from my own wine cellar, […]
Oxidative Wine Styles: Zind Humbrecht and Rene & Agnes Mosse
I am trying to develop palate education around oxidative wine styles. There is plenty of available information about it, but distinguishing between one wine subjected to an oxidative wine making process and another wine that primarily oxidizes through bottle age, without any specific knowledge about the wine maker’s approach, is not always straight forward for […]
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