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Harvey Steiman

A Vote for Australian Chardonnay

Posted: 02:46 PM ET, 02/04/08

Aside from California Cabernets (which James Suckling, James Laube and James Molesworth have all commented on in their blogs), we also tried some Chardonnays on our editors' retreat last week, courtesy of tasting director Bruce Sanderson. He poured us 2005s from Paul Hobbs and Peter MIchael in California and Puligny-Folatières from Jadot in Burgundy, but the one that woke everyone up and got a conversation going was—surprise!—from Australia. Read more

Maynard Keenan

Sure, Screw Caps Are Fine—But on My Wines?

Posted: 01:30 PM ET, 02/04/08

I realize this subject has been done to death, but I thought I'd try it on and see how it fits. The subject is screw caps, synthetic corks and TCA. Personally I don't mind synthetic corks or screw caps on wine that I plan on plowing through at the speed of light. Read more

James Molesworth

The Best Form of Education

Posted: 04:23 PM ET, 02/03/08

Education comes in many forms—literature, film, etc. And often education comes in a predictable format or setting, such as the classroom, whereby you know what to expect.

But for me, the best education is more than just seeing or hearing. Read more

James Laube

Nostalgia Has Its Limits with Older Wines

Posted: 01:42 PM ET, 01/31/08

Wine Spectator's senior editors blind tasted a series of old California reds this week, and the tasting, about which James Suckling has also written, demonstrated how well most of these wines aged.

Our editors agreed on a few stars. Read more

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

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