Category: UncategorizedThe Wine Spectator has a news item of a major purchase in Bordeaux. The purchase includes 235 acres in St.-Estèphe, encompassing Calon-Ségur, second label Marquis de Calon and a cru bourgeois property, Capbern-Gasqueton. This is the most prominent of several Bordeaux properties to recently change hands, largely due to inheritance taxes and family disagreements. Click [...]
Decanter has a feature about some changes for Beaujolais producers. An excerpt: Although Beaujolais producers have had the right label their wines Burgundy since 1937, it has long been a source of dispute between the two regions. Burgundy winemakers have been campaigning for tighter restrictions, particularly with the production of white wine. Forty-three communes have [...]
Last night we opened the first vintage (2000) of the now very famous ‘Bionic Frog’. This bottle had been sitting in my wine storage as I was convinced to save this for a special evening to see where the legend of the Frog all started. I had been slightly concerned as to the ageability of [...]
While at dinner over the weekend with friends I brought a bottle of 2000 Andrew Will Sorella. This is Andrew Will’s flagship wine; Bordeaux blend that has garnering much press over the years and deservedly so. What makes this wine so special? Chris Camarda. As owner and winemaker, he has been continuously putting together amazing [...]
This sunny, warm Fourth of July could not have come at a better time for us here in Seattle. As a lifelong Seattleite we have become accustomed to the defending our city in rainy times to others by telling them that our summers are underrated and the rain isn’t as bad as they hear. This [...]
Decanter Online reports the tagic news of the passing of Debra Whiting. The 52-year old chef-proprietor of Red Newt Cellars and Bistro on Seneca Lake, in the wine region in upstate New York, was the passenger in a 1985 Volkswagen when it collided with another car last Thursday night. Whiting’s husband and business partner Dave, [...]