“Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in than… Continue reading
“The great is the enemy of the good,’ the saying goes, and this is also true of wine. When we urgently chase the ‘stellar,’ we actually do collateral damage. Running after exalted wine experiences can… Continue reading
“As I know only too well, taste is almost impossible to describe. The process of tasting is so hidden, so private, so internal that the impressions that result from it cannot be extracted and observed… Continue reading
“No critic should forget, as he dallies with epithets, sipping his oak-fermented chardonnay or rates one precious bottle half a point behind another, that wine is one of the miracles of nature, and that its… Continue reading
It is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough, we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid that evaporates depending on the wind and… Continue reading
“We have 90 wines by the glass, typically about 30 rieslings. We offer our guests two sips of riesling, one off-dry and one trocken, then walk away. More than 50 percent of the time, they choose… Continue reading
“By far the most important thing for me from the [Judgement of Paris tasting], apart from it being a ‘win-win’ for both France and California, as the former was resting on its laurels and needed… Continue reading
“I just love the idea of “Open That Bottle Night” because even if opening that wine may be the end of that bottle’s journey, it is only the beginning of a long night of stories.”… Continue reading
“The golden liqueur of Tokay While caressing the fibers of the brain, Carries a fire that breathes witticism As brilliant as the liqueur is light.” —Voltaire (1694-1778), referring to Tokaji Aszú, the rare, extraordinary dessert… Continue reading
“When autumn arrives, I love the way my diet changes and consequently the kinds of wine I drink. Old white Burgundy with mushrooms, for example. With friends the other night we sautéed wild mushrooms and… Continue reading
