Have you ever wanted to fire off a post from your phone, Blackberry, Outlook at work…? Following on from Comment Reply Via Email we’re introducing our latest feature to make it even [...]
Birra? No grazie! La bevanda alcolica preferita in Gran Bretagna è il vino, lo dice un sondaggio commissionato dalla Wine and Spirit Trade Association e pubblicato in contemporanea con la [...]
When Wayne and I went to Japan earlier this year, one of the highlights of our trip was a quiet little dinner at Asahi. It is an artisan soba spot so tiny you feel as if you could touch all [...]
Sara Foster is the owner of two bustling markets in North Carolina. Google Maps tells me I'm precisely 2,824 miles from her Durham location, or approximately 42 hours in the car. Which is a [...]
Rivalries and conflicts simmer throughout the world. At least one was resolved peacefully last week in a historic vertical tasting of the wines of the two Pichons. Around 1850, faced with the [...]
I have some special books to highlight in the next few weeks. As I'm sure you've noticed by now, my attention meanders when it comes to cooking. Sometimes weeks will go by when I'm focused on [...]
Okay, these wines have little to do with each other besides being red and under $20. Oh, and they’re tasty and balanced. And suitable for throwing in your basement with 90 days’ [...]
I set my sights on carrot cake this week. I suspect you've never made a carrot cake in this way before, and I'm here to encourage you to give it a go. Well, maybe. If you like your carrot cake [...]
In a recent posting, I published my correspondence with Robert Parker and Jay Miller concerning an apparent divergence between the ethical guidelines set down by Parker and the actions of some [...]
The truth is, I was all set to feature a recipe from the Wagamama Cookbook. I had the recipe all picked out. Then, in characteristicly random fashion, San Francisco decided to usher spring [...]
[English translation at the end of the document] Il dato di gennaio delle esportazioni di vino italiano è stato particolarmente negativo: le esportazioni sono calate del 16% su gennaio 2008, e [...]
For enophiles, one of the great travesties of the past few years has been the rise of a new puritanism in France. Yes, the country perhaps most associated with wine has, paradoxically, also seen [...]
A glance in my refrigerator revealed a bag bulging with mint, ginger, and basil leftover from the asparagus stir-fry I featured earlier in the week. The herbs were threatening to wilt, [...]
Robert Parker set an admirably high standard for ethics in wine journalism. In the introduction to the latest edition of his Wine Buyer’s Guide, he emphasizes the need for wine critics to [...]
The forums at eRobertParker.com are a lively place. Unfortunately, they are often moderated with a heavy hand: several voices have been expelled and some threads that have even a whiff of [...]
National Geographic has produced an excellent graphic in the May issue about wine’s carbon footprint (unfortunately, no link is yet available but the magazine is arriving in mailboxes and [...]
Come indirizzi i tuoi clienti nella scelta del vino attraverso la tua carta? Per prima cosa cerco di vedere che cosa vogliono mangiare, dopodichè cerco di capire il livello di conoscenza nel [...]
This morning I opened my eyes and was greeted with a beautiful day. The chubby robins that live in the trees out front were chirping and the sky was big and blue and punctuated with cotton [...]
SPIT: quotes! Ray Isle, wine editor at Food & Wine, is ticked. He previously posted about some wipes that claim to remove wine stains from teeth (saying, among other things, that [...]
Oxidative wines are an essential wine tasting reference point. Too much oxygen during winemaking (or bottle aging) and a wine becomes oxidized, a flaw; just enough and it is oxidative, a sort of [...]
March was a bit of a whirlwind. The entire month went by in a blur of planes, trains, friends, and house guests. That's a round-about way of saying, I'm still trying to get my head above [...]
I know many of you are on the hunt for good Easter brunch recipes. Here are a few favorites I've dusted off from the archives - bumped back up to the top for the next couple days. I've [...]
I’m in an undisclosed location where rum is cheaper than Yellow Tail. We have the good fortune of being on a family vacation in the tropics. But what’s a wine lover to drink? If [...]
SIPPED: English wine Well, now that all the serious business of the G20 meeting is over, we can turn to what wine lovers wanted to know all along: what did they drink? Gone were the lavish [...]
One thing we’ve learned the past few weeks is that markets love a good bottom. As the stock market has bounced off a low on March 9, the financial news is full of bottom [...]