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Bruce Sanderson
The Vietti Touch
Posted: 03:48 AM ET, 11/29/07
For lunch Monday we dined at La Ciau del Tornavento, a hilltop restaurant with beautiful view looking out over the Langhe and off to the Alps in the distance. The restaurant holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and offers more than 2,000 selections, primarily from Piedmont. Read more
James Laube
Harvesting Olives at Rutherford's Round Pond
Posted: 04:55 PM ET, 11/28/07
Ryan MacDonnell stood next to a row of olive trees, which bumps up against a row of grapevines. The grapes are long gone, but the olive harvest is in full swing. MacDonnell, who wears two hats overseeing both Round Pond winery and its olive oil mill, is holding a dozen small berries that are about to be pressed into oil. Read more
James Suckling
Mozza and Comme Ça Are More Than Comme Ça ...
Posted: 11:23 AM ET, 11/28/07
We Americans can do some things in the restaurants as well or even better than the Europeans. In fact, we can sometimes beat them at their own game.
I was thinking of that following a couple of dinners in two hot new restaurants in Los Angeles, Osteria Mozza and Comme Ça. Read more
Bruce Sanderson
Barolo 101
Posted: 03:44 AM ET, 11/28/07
I had more geography lessons on Monday, this time courtesy of Luca Currado of Vietti. The Vietti cellars are located in the heart of Castiglione Falletto. From the terrace outside, there is a good view of the western part of the zone.
There are three main ridges where the best vineyard exposures are located. Read more
James Laube
Rotten Grapes Yield Liquid Gold
Posted: 12:55 PM ET, 11/27/07
If you didn’t know better, you might think you'd just stepped into the vineyard from hell.
It’s Nov. 27, a month after most of the grapes in Napa Valley have been picked, yet there are still grapes on the vines here in this rural Coombsville vineyard, hidden by a grove of trees east of Napa. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Thanks for the Wines
Posted: 12:35 PM ET, 11/27/07
The phone rang in the next room. I put down the bottle of wine I was pondering in my wine cellar, and rushed to get the call. My friend Leonard wanted to know what time to arrive on Thanksgiving. He, his wife and daughter were joining us. "I was just rummaging around in the wine cellar looking for something to drink Thursday," I told him. Read more
Bruce Sanderson
The Lay of the Land
Posted: 03:17 AM ET, 11/27/07
I came to Piedmont, and specifically Barolo, to get a better understanding of the wines. The first Nebbiolo I recall that made an impression on me was a Barbaresco Riserva 1974 from a producer called Gemma, if I remember correctly. That was 20 years ago, in Hamburg, Germany. Read more
James Laube
Harvest 2007 Ends With Exotic Rewards
Posted: 06:08 PM ET, 11/26/07
Harvest 2007 in California is mostly in the barn.
But there are at least two crops that are still in play.
One is late-harvest, dessert-wine bound grapes, such as Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc. In some areas, winemakers are still waiting on late-ripeneing Gewürztraminer and Riesling grapes as well. Read more
Maynard Keenan
Back on Tour, Where Opportunity Knocks
Posted: 12:55 PM ET, 11/26/07
We're back on the road. That means more opportunities for wine-and-food pairings. This time I'm going to make a conscious effort to take notes. Or at the very least beg the sommelier to send me a copy of the pairing menu. We're off to a grand start. Read more
Richard Betts
A Call for Diversity
Posted: 11:57 AM ET, 11/26/07
I am just moments away from heading to the airport (again!) as our endless harvest continues. Now it’s back to Italy. As I stuffed the two-prong European adapter into my luggage, and pulled out the three-prong one I had used in Australia, a theme that has been going over and over in my head came up again: the need for a better understanding of the diversity of that three-prong adapter country – Australia. Read more
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