Blog Index
James Laube
Two Great Estates with Room to Grow
Posted: 03:40 PM ET, 02/21/08
When a winery loses a “driver” vineyard, or changes grape sources, it’s bound to change the quality of the wine.
Yesterday’s blog touched on wineries that used to buy a small portion of the Scarecrow Cabernet grapes, which is but one small and recent example. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Big Guns Finally Firing at Palazzo
Posted: 09:46 AM ET, 02/21/08
More than a month after its grand opening, Palazzo Las Vegas will finally have all of its star-chef restaurants in place by the end of the month. Construction delays forced the hotel to put Charlie Trotter, Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagasse on hold during the festivities in January. Read more
James Laube
Tasting the 2005 Scarecrow (But Beware the Ghost)
Posted: 05:22 PM ET, 02/20/08
Yesterday Celia Welch Masyczek poured me the new Scarecrow Cabernets, including the bottled 2005, a barrel sample of 2006 and several vineyard blocks of the 2007, which has just finished malolactic.
Masyczek (who also makes wines under the Corra label) makes Scarecrow for owners Bret Lopez and Mimi DeBlasio from their property in Rutherford. Read more
Kim Marcus
Israel, Day 2: North to Netanya
Posted: 05:04 PM ET, 02/20/08
It’s obvious there is a building boom in Israel. Since the early 1990s, nearly one million immigrants from the old Soviet Union have flooded into the country, invigorating and transforming its culture—and bringing a new appreciation for wine. Read more
James Suckling
Lesson of the Day
Posted: 01:00 PM ET, 02/20/08
I was lucky enough to drink two first-growths in the last 24 hours – 1996 Lafite and 1982 Latour. The first bottle was the last one in my cellar, and I had a blowout dinner at home for some friends from Bordeaux and a number of Tuscan wine producers. Read more
Kim Marcus
Israel: Arrival
Posted: 04:50 PM ET, 02/19/08
Today I’m on the road in northern Israel, staying in the hillside village of Rosh Pina in the Galilee region. Out my window to the east, I can see the broad, green plateau of the Golan Heights, home to some of Israel’s best vineyards. Behind me are the uplands of the Galilee, which are increasingly dotted with interesting wineries and vineyard sites, right up to the Lebanese border, complete with the flags of Hizbollah fluttering in tatters on the horizon. Read more
Richard Betts
Shades of Red: Exploring Montalcino's Diversity
Posted: 04:28 PM ET, 02/19/08
I recently spent a week in Italy with my wife, a couple of friends and the goal of gaining a better understanding of that fabled wine, Brunello di Montalcino.
The town of Montalcino is a beautiful little hilltop hamlet in southern Tuscany about 90 minutes north of Rome or a couple hours south of Florence. Read more
James Molesworth
Dining in Cabo: A Little Wine, a Few More Margaritas
Posted: 03:44 PM ET, 02/19/08
Before diving into my blog on my recent dining experiences in Cabo, I need to relate the latest story in my ongoing travel saga. As some of you may have read here, I am the human travel jinx and I can’t remember the last time I actually took off and landed on time without any glitches. Read more
James Laube
Farewell To Our Oldest Reader
Posted: 10:49 AM ET, 02/19/08
The last time I wrote about Tom Malloy was after I’d sat down to dinner with him and friends to drink the 2006 Wine of the Year, the 2001 Casanova di Neri Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta Nuova.
A kind reader, Tim Johnson, of Portland, Ore. Read more
Bruce Sanderson
Exploring New Domaines
Posted: 10:04 AM ET, 02/19/08
On each of my visits to Burgundy I try to schedule appointments with domaines or houses that I have not previously visited. On one day of my most recent trip there were three such estates on my itinerary: Nicolas Rossignol in Volnay, Etienne Sauzet in Puligny-Montrachet and Domaine de Courcel in Pommard. Read more
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