Watch this Episode! 2004 Di Majo Norante Sangiovese Igt 2004 2004 Falesco Vitiano 2003 Castano Hecula 2002 Renard Tres Ninos 2002 Penfolds Cabernet Bin 707 Today Gary tackles 5 more 90+ scored wines and we await to see how they scored. From the value driven Falesco Vitiano to the classic Penfolds 707 these 5 wines hit a wide range of flavors and complexities. Oh and don...

This week, Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard's 2005 Dry Riesling ($16) defeated 702 other New York wines ... Cellars was named New York's "Winery of the Year" based on the number, and level, of medals its wines won. Sponsored and run by the New York Wine and Grape Foundation (NYWGF), a nonprofit statewide trade organization based in the in newly opened New York Wine and Culinary Center . Howard Goldberg...

Filed under: Wine , Magazines , Raves & Reviews , Lists , New Zealand If you're sitting around trying to decide on a new wine to try tonight with you dinner, may we suggest a little something from New Zealand? Forbes picks 15 "Five Star" wines from the tiny country that served as backdrop to a giant movies about hobbits: Cable Station Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2004 ($18) - "bright, ripe...

Vineyards Cabernet 2003 Niagara Escarpment, New York ($18) Just last night I decided to open the 2003 ... blend of Cab Sauv and Cab Franc from Eveningside Vineyards, a new winery in that area. So I ... was enjoyable. I'm a fan of the Cave Spring wines, especially their Riesling and Gamay, and Eveningside's wines do seem like they have the same care put into them. We ended up buying the Chardonnay...

After a fine birthday meal last night at Masa, today opened on a far more somber note, with news that Johnny Apple is gone. This was not a huge surprise to those who knew him; he had been in decline after a battle with cancer. But that doesn’t diminish the sense ...

Napa’s Quintessa tries sunblock for grapes.  Biodynamic sunblock. [Decanter] Rain, rain, go away. Fall on Bordeaux some other day. [Decanter] Pete Wells weighs in on his new gig as NYT dining editor: “Blogs are not our competition. What print media do and what bloggers do complement each other; they shouldn’t be competing.” [NYMag via Eater] In Massachusetts...

... as their hospitality was generous. The next time I’m bound for Hector, New York I’ll stop back for sure ... . Days prior to departing my New Hampshire home, I surfed on-line and made a “wish-list” of wineries ... this stop all the more special. Being a convivial ambassador for the region’s wines, her spirit ... Stone Vineyards when I visited last summer, finding most of their wines consistently high...

The wine-growers of Virginia bravely grasped the nettle of introducing Virginia wines to the British market by holding their first overseas wine-tasting in London in May 2007. While California , Washington & Oregon and upstate New York are well-known as exporters of U.S. wines, your wine correspondent Lovat Stephen must confess that wine-growing did not rank high in his knowledge of this Mid...

... back - Enjoy HBH New York Times - DIning - New Orleans - Comments - 08/23/06 - I ... From a NY Times blog - (see full posting at bottom) - a New Orleans resident - wiped out by Katrina ... recommendation for the first night in post-Katrina New Orleans - Called The Pelican Club and asked ... Reds" - settled on - Matinborough Vineyard - Chardonnay - New Zealand - 2002 - mellow Oak - good...

– there is a buzz – an energy that instantly envelopes you – not the frenetic rush of New York – rather ... to be in New Orleans - her costume designing days in New York - so when she reached down to touch ... of pulling a chair up to your table – sitting down – and asking – “what’s new?? – it was as if you were in the dining room of his home – Last week – in New Orleans – I had a similar experience...