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London charity fine-wine dinner back to 1952 (Free for all)
Thu, 08/12/2010 - 20:00On 16 September Purple pager François Feuillat is organising a dinner featuring some very fine wines in the private room at Le Café Anglais, London W2, to raise funds for the hugely worthwhile Cambodian Children's Fund . Our FT colleague chef-proprietor Rowley Leigh, a serious wine buff himself,.
Sitting pretty on Port Llançà (Nick on restaurants)
Thu, 08/12/2010 - 20:00The relationship between a conversation in Tokyo 18 months ago with Ferran Adriá, widely and justifiably regarded as the world’s most exciting chef, and the response to my question ‘How’s business?’ posed recently to the engaging waiter at Els Pescadors in Llançà, north eastern.
Berry Bros, publishers (Don't quote me)
Wed, 08/11/2010 - 20:00Very much in line with my recent article How to publish your own wine book on self-publishing comes today's news that wine merchant Berry Bros is establishing its own book publishing division, Berry Bros Press. Its first title, out this autumn, will be the long-awaited Burgundy book from their.
The Hare with Amber Eyes (Jancis recommends)
Wed, 08/11/2010 - 20:00I know this is a wine website and so I shouldn't really go off-piste, but I do occasionally allow myself to do so in this obscure corner of the site and I hope you will indulge me in this holiday season. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, it is high summer and many of us are looking for.
Should prices ever be fixed? (Free for all)
Tue, 08/10/2010 - 20:00I wonder how cheap own-label sherry would have become if the sherry producers hadn't naughtily ganged up and decided to agree on a fixed minimum? Decanter.com reported here on Monday that nine major sherry bodegas, and the official trade organisations, have been fined almost €7 million in total.
Stone rolls to Evening Land (Inside information)
Tue, 08/10/2010 - 20:00One of America's most famous sommeliers, Larry Stone MS, has left his post as general manager at Francis Ford Coppola's Rubicon Estate in Napa Valley and taken a similar job at Evening Land , the Pinot Noir/Chardonnay specialist with bases in Oregon, California and Burgundy. Stone, sommelier.
California 2010 - lean and mean? (Inside information)
Mon, 08/09/2010 - 20:00Could it be that the 12.5% alcohol California table wine, a regular feature of the 1970s, will return? That's quite a stretch, yet the 2010 growing season is, as of now, one of the coolest on record. Unless temperatures rise soon, and continue through the next two months, the 2010 California.
Joseph Perrier Blanc de Blancs 2002 (Wines of the week)
Mon, 08/09/2010 - 20:00From £39.95 (less than initially thought!) Find this wine Joseph Perrier is an unusual champagne house. Based many miles south east of the traditional heartland of the Champagne region in the town of Chalons-sur-Marne (now called, more alluringly, Chalons-en-Champagne), this family firm was.
Investment scams follow wine east (Free for all)
Mon, 08/09/2010 - 20:00In the good old days, the word 'bubble' was associated with champagne , celebration, happiness, playfulness - never anything to do with trouble. Ever since the dotcom bubble which climaxed in March 2000, however, the word has had more sinister connotations. In the last decade we have had.
Vinonomics - Mouton Cadet pricing (Inside information)
Sun, 08/08/2010 - 20:0011 Aug - see this article on www.wineeconomist.com by Professor Mike Veseth inspired by the analysis below. He is very keen that we fill in some of the gaps below so do please help - especially those of you in Russia and India. First there was Burgernomics, then Freakonomics - now.
Where to store wine in the UK (Free for all)
Sun, 08/08/2010 - 20:00This is to alert you to the fact that Tamlyn Currin has recently completely updated our long article Professional wine storage in the UK , using Julia Harding's previous update of my earlier survey. She provides some useful observations about who is currently offering the best deals and had added.
Cherubino superstar (Tasting articles)
Thu, 08/05/2010 - 20:00Many congratulations to Larry Cherubino of Western Australia, who has just been named Winemaker of the Year in senior Australian wine writer James Halliday's 2011 Wine Companion and, also this week, was named Producer of the Year by one of the most junior but prominent members of the Australian.
Diary of an MW student - part 14 (Inside information)
Thu, 08/05/2010 - 20:00The worst has happened. It is a common affliction for wannabe MWs and I realised that I myself had succumbed only recently. It is well known, yet taboo. It is a temporary condition – at least I sincerely hope so: I am completely bored of wine. My name’s Richard and I’m an oenophobic. Ten.
Daughters of invention (Free for all)
Wed, 08/04/2010 - 20:00I have long thought that there are several fortunes to be made by enterprising industrial designers prepared to help us wine lovers out with some of our practical problems. The most obviously lucrative opportunity for some lateral thinker is to come up with a new wine bottle stopper. Do screwcaps.
PinotG - crisp or luscious? (Don't quote me)
Wed, 08/04/2010 - 20:00You may remember the laudable attempt by members of the International Riesling Federation - Riesling producers based mainly but not exclusively in North America - to help consumers work out how sweet their wines are likely to taste using the Riesling Taste Profile . Now a similar idea has been.
Hail effects in the Douro (Inside information)
Tue, 08/03/2010 - 20:00A brief visit to the Douro last month yielded some interesting tastings of both ports and table wines, on which I will be reporting, but also these snapshots of the tribulations of life as a vine. In June, there was a localised hailstorm in the Cima Corgo, narrowly missing some of Quinta do.
Upcoming events and BYO free (Free for all)
Tue, 08/03/2010 - 20:00Wine lovers in search of others, and entertaining environments in which to meet them, may be interested in the following innovations in London and Portugal. Le Soula at 28-50 I had no idea when I published my tasting notes on verticals of Le Soula on Monday that its creator Gérard Gauby was this.
Traslanzas 2003/05 Cigales (Wines of the week)
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 20:00Later that same day - Two, soon to be three, UK stockists located From €16, 149 Swedish krone, $23.69, 35 Swiss francs, £25.37 Find this wine It was a long, sunny Sunday lunch outside at one of our favourite restaurants on the Catalan coast, Els Pescadores in Llanç à (originally.
Impressions of Indochina (Inside information)
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 20:00Until very recently, Levi Hensel worked for Vinfolio in San Francisco. Here he shares his impressions of the wine scene encountered on a recent trip to Vietnam (home, according to our records, to just one Purple pages member). They sound all too typical of experiences in nascent wine cultures in.
Gallo, Constellation follow Riesling trend (Inside information)
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 20:00Despite the lure of Bründlmayer, Josef Leitz, Dr Loosen, Ostertag, Dönnhoff, Hugel and St Urbans-Hof, I spent most of my tasting hours at the recent Riesling Rendezvous in Washington state sampling US Rieslings from Washington, Oregon, California, Michigan, New York and New Jersey. Yes, New.
