Rhode Island Wine Weekend, Part II 22 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am

We drank Bordeaux on the first night, and it was a first growth kind of evening. This is because the guys we were hanging out with have been collecting wine for a long while, and they are generous peo...

Rhode Island Wine Weekend, Part I 20 Aug 2013 | 07:36 am

You know how you have those weekends where you go out of town to a friend's house where a bunch of serious wine lovers gather over a few dinners to open and share truly great old wines? Yeah, me neit...

A Night in Detroit - Slows BBQ and The Sugar House Bar 12 Aug 2013 | 08:15 am

I recently spent a day in Detroit. It was a work trip. But two old college friends live in the area and so after work there was an evening of Detroit fun. And we had a great evening, which I will tell...

Wine Glasses and Champagne 3 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am

Warning: I am about to write about an expensive wine glass, and I will suggest to you that it is the best of its type, and worth the money. And furthermore, that if you pay good money for good wine, y...

An Early-Summer Lunch 29 Jul 2013 | 08:40 pm

Mid-Summer Laundry List 23 Jul 2013 | 07:48 am

I've been meaning to write more, I really have. It's not as though there's been a shortage of interesting food and wine to discuss - it's been an embarrassment of riches. But I am trying to write when...

Heat Damage - a Brief Addendum 14 Jul 2013 | 06:31 am

A friend who is visiting her family in Italy sent an email to me yesterday: "Hey, look what I found in my grandpa's closet... kept for 40-50 years there like this. Standing, no temperature control, f...

Heat Damage 11 Jul 2013 | 07:36 am

Summer is in full swing here in NYC and we are having a hot one. For the past two weeks it's been in the high 80's to the upper 90's and quite humid. I enjoy this weather, actually. Not for all year r...

Alzinger - a Dinner Featuring Wines from the 80's and 90's. 30 Jun 2013 | 09:09 am

I've been told that most Austrian wine is consumed at home in Austria, and that most of this is consumed while still young. Whether or not this is true I do not know. But I've noticed that there is ne...

Domaine Huet - Recent Changes and a few Old Bottles. 21 Jun 2013 | 08:38 am

A little over a year ago Noel Pinguet resigned his position as the wine maker at Domaine Huet, the Loire Valley legend that is generally considered to be its finest producer of Vouvray wines. Noel too...