Save the teeth

I went to the dentist today for a check up and the dental hygenist told me that wine tasting can be bad for your teeth, and not just in the turn-them-black way. The acid in the wine, or the acid in anything, eats away tooth enamel especially at the gum line. She suggested carrying a [...]

More on Israeli wine

The question of kosher. At the Israeli wine tasting on Tuesday Mark Squires addressed the the stigma of kosher wine and most Americans’ feeling that it isn’t very good. As he pointed out, there are 200 wineries in Israel and 150 of them are not kosher. But most of the output is. The non-kosher wineries [...]

Israeli Wine Tasting

The wine hiatus is over and tasting season in New York City is in full swing. The 2004 Brunellos are in and Michael Skurnik had a tasting two weeks ago heralding their arrival. It was mobbed.
But on Tuesday I went to something much more interesting: the first wine tasting of exclusively Israeli wines in the [...]

Thanks, Andrew Sullivan

I just watched this twice.

Yes, we can

What we drank.

Icon tasting, at last

Here’s a list of the wines at the Icon Wine Tasting hosted by Pancho Campo and the Wine Academy of Spain at the Warwick Hotel on October 23.
1. Gramona Cellar Batlle 1998 Cava. This producer in the Penedes was obviously a favorite of Pancho’s. Gramona is a doctor who in addition to making cava, does [...]

Drink, don’t taste

The wine bloggers conference was evidently a big success. There were keynote speeches from Gary Vaynerchuk and Alice Feiring, and she wrote about it on her blog Appellation Feiring. In it she relayed a message from Eric Asimov, the wine writer from The New York Times, who said, “Drink, don’t taste.”
This hit home with me. [...]

One way to break in?

The Court of Master Sommelier’s website has a job section and on September 9, The French Laundry posted a position for a wine intern. It goes like this:
Wine Intern, The French Laundry Restaurant ~ Napa Valley, CA
Title: Wine Intern – The French Laundry Restaurant
Company Overview: The French Laundry is a 60 seat, Wine [...]

A little rain

OK. It’s been a lot. It started on Friday and now on Monday morning, it’s still damp and grey. It’s not good for the grapes, but it’s not disastrous. Most vineyards already had a good amount of their whites in and reds (except for some pinot noir) usually does not get picked until mid October.
The [...]

Wine on the web

Representatives for Amazon.com are making a presentation to the Long Island Wine Council today.
Wine sales on the internet behomoth are scary for retail stores. More scary than Costco selling wine?
Here’s a story. Some customers at the restaurant especially like the Cinquante-Cinq Sauvignon Blanc from the South of France that we poured by the glass for [...]