The interviews this episode include Roy Moorfield, who founded the event 27 years ago and Keppell Smith, owner and winemaker at Savaterre . These guys were most accommodating with being interviewed on the spur of the moment and both are clearly very passionate about what they do. Keppell produces some fantastic wine and I highly recommend adding yourself to his mailing list . Savaterre's...

... good thing about the internet and wine reviews is that reviews will balance themselves out ... associate with would be in jail right about now. Yet, last week I received the first threat of legal ... and desire to publish, nobody wants to open the paper and read about three bad wines - so in general ... than one sample, but indicating that it was only one sample if that is the case) or keep quiet about...

In the voluminous amount of words that are dedicated to the conversation on wine both in print and on-line there is a tendency to focus on what's new, what's hot, what's cultish, what's fashionable. This makes sense. What's New is...

Following on from the previous post about interesting search terms, I’ve been seeing some other strange/interesting ones appear lately.Some selected odd ones over the past month or so; anthony bourdain gay? - Thanks to Ed saying that this was the most interesting search term that he received in a comment on the previous post, now I’m getting them! CAM FRUIT. COM - Looking at the first...

There has been some news recently about two $2AUD ($1.50USD) cleanskin wines being offered by Dan Murphy’s, who are owned by a major supermarket chain here in Australia. I decided to see what a $2 wine tastes like and to put it into a blind test against another wine. My girlfriend poured ... if you don’t want to think about it. I am sure that this is the cleanskin and I’ve had worse wines...

Here's the second and final part of our coverage of the Exhibition of Victorian Winemakers. It was a stellar event and worth checking out next year...

Friday night was just gorgeous, somewhere around 80ºF, sunny and with a light breeze. I met Will in Nolita so we could have dinner at one of our favourite outdoor spots: the garden at Le Jardin Bistro. Le Jardin Bistro is an unassuming French restaurant on a little block called Cleveland Place. It looks like it has been there for ages. There is nothing trendy or flashy about it, but we have...

Screenshot: Peasant Ssshhh . On our visit to Peasant last weekend, our waiter told us about ... such a good time at the bar, we want to tell everyone about it, but at the same time don’t want ... , then decided we never get a chance to hang out in NYC, eating, drinking and acting like tourists. We kicked ... picnic-style tables at the front and a bar at the back with about eight stools, in front of the cellar...

The pastry tasted like it consisted of about 1,000 layers of butter and flour, and the stewed pear ... . This may be one of the last deals remaining in NYC. Each piece was about a foot long and six inches...

(it wasn’t out when I went through the line). Greens - I’m not sure what type of greens they were ... …not sure about the ingredients. Chicken Fingers - Plain jane chicken. Reception Fajita Bar...