Monthly Archives: October 2011
New York State is Making $ Allowing Import of Wine
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported on a meeting where Dennis Rosen, the chairman of the state liquor authority, covered the impacts of a 2005 law that increased the ability of in-state and out-of-state wineries to ship in and out … Continue reading
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Ripasso Primer
Here’s a good reminder of what ripasso means in the Veneto. It comes courtesy of George Elde, salesman for Frederick Wildlman, a venerable wine importer and distributor in New York, where, it’s true, I have a number of friends. Like … Continue reading
Filed under Trade Tastings
Quarts de Chaume to become Loire Valley’s first Grand Cru
This is interesting. Unlike the Italians, the French are very protective of designating their vineyards. The Italians, however, don’t have anything quite like Grand Cru. From Jancis: grand cru means literally ‘great growth’ in French. In Burgundy’s Côte d’Or a … Continue reading
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Six-year-old Long Island Merlot
I was at a friend’s house for dinner, she pulled out a bottle of wine her husband keeps for every day. Lo and behold, it was local and it was from our last good red wine vintage (if you didn’t … Continue reading
Filed under The Local Cellars, What's open now
10-year-old Martha Clara Merlot
Funny as it seems, my aunt’s summer home down the street has turned out to be a a relative (small) cellar for Long Island wine (whose trade group has a new website). Last winter I cracked open a 2007 Paumanok … Continue reading
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