wine

Matt Kramer On Wine: in praise of subjectivity

July 6, 2011

I finished Matt Kramer’s delightful On Wine a couple of weeks ago, but couldn’t quite figure out how to describe it to you, my dear readers, until just this moment. The dilemma, of course, is that I am completely on Team Matt, so I’m totally biased. I even met him over this newest publication. He [...]

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Alexis Lichine’s Wines of France, a work of subtle comic genius

June 8, 2011

La Mission-Haut-Brion claims that it is responsible for getting St. Vincent into trouble. It seems that St. Vincent, the patron saint of vintners, had not been in heaven very long before he was attacked by a terrific thirst and had a yearning to taste again the great wines of France, the Burgundies, the wines from [...]

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Press Club, San Francisco

November 2, 2010

Press Club is this amazingly stylish wine tasting bar in the heart of downtown San Francisco. We recently went on a Friday evening to celebrate the birthday of our long-time friend, Fernando. Happy B-day, man! Actually, we’d gone to look at Press Club before, but only in the afternoon. Then it seemed completely dead. Friday [...]

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Reflections of a Wine Merchant by Neal Rosenthal

July 28, 2010

Wine is fantastic, though is it possible to ever get too much of a good thing? Well, not if you’re Neal Rosenthal. His exciting book, Reflections of a Wine Merchant, describes his career as an independent wine merchant in New York with a penchant for Old World wines. In the mid-Seventies, Rosenthal was a disillusioned [...]

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New York style mussels with garlic and Chablis sauce

August 27, 2009

I miss New York when it comes to sea food. I think that they have the best fish and shellfish! I’d like to visit Tokyo’s famed fish market, Tsujiki, sometime. They boast the freshest and finest fish from anywhere in the world. The Tsujiki fish market is on my list as one of the must-do [...]

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Japanese kabocha pumpkin risotto

August 8, 2009

I absolutely love pumpkins, gourds and squashes of all types. In fact when we were thinking of a name for our site we thought about calling it cucurbita, which is the scientific name for this family of plants. Among all Winter squashes, kabocha pumpkin is my absolute favorite. It has a buttery and nutty flavor [...]

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