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James Laube

Rosenblum's Sale Crucial for Zinfandel Lovers

Posted: 05:50 PM ET, 01/30/08

The sale of Rosenblum to Diageo is important on several fronts.

Rosenblum has been one of the state’s biggest champions of Zinfandel. In any given year it can bottle up to two dozen single-vineyard wines from this grape as well as other often underdog varietals and, perhaps more significantly, it has emphasized value, which all wine drinkers prize. Read more

James Suckling

Proof in the Bottle with the Editors

Posted: 04:06 PM ET, 01/30/08

I just finished an amazing tasting with the senior editors of the magazine and owner/publisher Marvin Shanken. We tasted old California reds from the 1960s and 1970s in a secret hideway during editoral planning meetings for the magazine. I most certainly cannot tell you about the latter, but the former was mind-blowing. Read more

James Molesworth

A Sit-Down with Antonio Bravo, a Convert to Organics

Posted: 10:19 AM ET, 01/30/08

The Chilean winemaker parade continued as I sat down the other day with Antonio Bravo, winemaker at Viñedos Emiliana, the organic project owned by the Guilisasti family of Concha y Toro. [Note: The name of the winery recently changed from Viñedos Orgánicos Emiliana to just Viñedos Emiliana. Read more

James Suckling

Mature California Cabs à la Cubano

Posted: 04:00 PM ET, 01/28/08

I had dinner in Florida on Saturday night in Coral Gables at a friend’s house and he laid out a fabulous dinner with excellent food and stunning wines. There’s nothing better than being from out of town and being made to feel like being part of the family. Read more

Harvey Steiman

A Taste of South Carolina in Las Vegas

Posted: 06:34 AM ET, 01/28/08

Not all the hot new star-chef restaurants in Las Vegas are in casino resorts on the Strip. Late last year Louis Osteen, one of the pioneer lights in contemporary Southern cuisine, brought his South Carolina Low Country cooking to Town Square, a big new upscale shopping mall out by the airport. Read more

Bruce Sanderson

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Rue d’Enfer

Posted: 03:10 PM ET, 01/25/08

I was fortunate that Maison Joseph Drouhin president and CEO Frédérick Drouhin could see me last Friday afternoon. It was the last appointment I confirmed. As I approached Drouhin's offices on the Rue d’Enfer, I anticipated tasting through a range of 2006s. Read more

James Suckling

Scary Old Wines?

Posted: 02:18 PM ET, 01/25/08

After the UGC tasting in Santa Monica, I went to a dinner and tasting for Les Carmes Haut-Brion at a trendy restaurant called Adobe, put on by Steve Winfield of LiquidLink, an LA –based wine importer. I sat across from Tristan Beamon of The Wine Exchange in Orange, California. Read more

James Molesworth

A Sit-Down with Enrique Tirado

Posted: 12:32 PM ET, 01/25/08

There's been a parade of Chilean winemakers through here in recent weeks, which continued today as I sat down with Enrique Tirado, head winemaker at Concha y Toro who is in charge of their flagship Don Melchor bottling.

The 2005 Don Melchor is just arriving in the market now, so you can expect an official review in the coming weeks. Read more

Harvey Steiman

Inside the Palazzo

Posted: 12:13 PM ET, 01/24/08

Everyone I met attending the Palazzo's opening celebration in Las Vegas last week was trying to figure out why it was happening. Only four of the 13 restaurants had opened in time.

All of the chefs and restaurateurs involved showed up anyway to participate in a media presentation, but they were kind of scratching their heads. Read more

Bruce Sanderson

A Taste of Chassagne and Its Environs

Posted: 11:03 AM ET, 01/24/08

Friday morning, early, found me at Domaine Bernard Morey in Chassagne-Montrachet. I knew some of the wines well from my days at Burgundy Wine Company in the early 1990s. Thomas Morey, son of the current proprietor, did a stage there not long after I had joined Wine Spectator. Read more

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