AT CHÂTEAU GASQUI, NATURE IS A COMPANION TO BE TRUSTED NOT DOMINATED
“You have to have confidence in the terroir,” winemaker François Miglio emphatically told me. “You have to accompany its natural harmony,” he continued, echoing the essence [...]
White Wine
Musings of a Wine MavenAre you ready for a wine cellar in 2018?
A wine cellar can be defined in various ways. In its basic element, I define it as a place to stash wine.
My first was a nine-bottle wooden rack placed at the back of a clothes closet on the seventh floor of an air-conditioned apartment building in New York City. Since that humble beginning, my storage space has hitched itself to my business-related moves to no less than fourteen [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
It’s Christmas Day -- Our house is dressed for this hallowed occasion, the tree is cut and trimmed, gifts are wrapped, and stockings are filled. Phew! It was a race to the finish line this year. I was afraid I would run into Santa when we finally headed up to our [...]
Provençal Pairings: Wine with Food Cool Wine, Daddy-O… I’m Hip!
I found the following on the British blog Golly's Wine Drops: "Léon Perdigal Côtes-du-Rhône Blanc ’15 has a full on hipster collection of grapes in it... So cool you’ve never heard of half of them. It doesn’t hold any truck with oak either so the grapes get to do all the talking." It makes me wonder, what would really make a wine "hipster?" [...]
NATURAL WINE: LESS IS MORE AND OTHER LESSONS FROM RAW WINE NEW YORK 2017
Natural wines came on my radar a few years ago, probably through the writings of Alice Feiring, one of the first mainstream writers to champion their cause. Feiring is a gifted and [...]
PROVENCE WINEZINE PICKS WINES FOR THANKSGIVING 2017
So you want to add a little French flair to this quintessentially American meal? But a wave of anxiety engulfed you when you remembered that seven years ago, UNESCO deemed French gastronomy to be "a world intangible [...]
Provence WineZine Goes to RAW WINE New York
Today is the start of RAW WINE New York, a two-day artisan wine fair devoted to natural wine. It’s the second year in the Big Apple and promises to be a popular event again—tickets for today sold out three days ago and apparently Monday is now also sold out (although organizers encourage interested parties to check availability at the door…and suggest they may be lucky). About 2300 people attended last [...]
Provençal Pairings: Wine with Food A Goddess in Our Midst
Toward the end of my pairing notes last month, I suggested I might have remembered Rolle being someone softer, fuller, and rounder than its Italian counterpart, Vermentino.
It seems that I was right.
Disclaimer: I only tasted two of hundreds of wines out there that are made with 100% Rolle or Vermentino. Just two. However, they are both highly rated and come from well-respected vintners.
As I tested the Antinori Vermentino twice, I thought it only fair to do the same with the Rolle.
For one [...]
2017 HARVEST IN PROVENCE AND SOUTHERN RHÔNE: EARLY AND SMALL BUT WITH GREAT EXPECTATIONS
If you live in the South of France, you would have to be living a cave not to know that the 2017 harvest was [...]
Provençal Pairings: Wine with Food You Say Rolle, and I Say Vermentino…
There is no need to call the whole thing off, because we are both right; Rolle and Vermentino grapes are one and the same. The Italians make Vermentino, while those of you in Provence sip Rolle. I truly wish I had a bottle of each side-by-side to test, because I feel they are quite different. Basically, all that folderol about terroir really isn't folderol at all. (Now THAT should be a Cole Porter lyric, even though my nod to “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” is an Ira and George [...]
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