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Foley adds Chalk Hill (Don't quote me)
Sun, 06/13/2010 - 20:00Reports that surfaced on 4 Jun that Sonoma's swank Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards & Winery was for sale have been confirmed, and a deal has actually been struck. Fast-moving US vintner William Foley (pictured) is in the process of purchasing the 1,300-acre Chalk Hill estate - which includes 350.
Charmingly Irish (Nick on restaurants)
Fri, 06/11/2010 - 20:00The O'Brien Chop House, which opened last summer, must now be added to the list of the charms of Lismore in County Waterford, Ireland, two hours' drive south of Dublin. This historic town is home to several long established attractions. The tiny St Carthage's Cathedral. An imposing castle that.
The single bottle dilemma (Free for all)
Fri, 06/11/2010 - 20:00The UK is acknowledged around the world as a sophisticated market for wine. So how come it short changes sophisticated wine consumers in one important respect? I refer to the relative difficulty of buying fine wine by the single bottle. In general, British wine lovers are expected to buy their.
Another toy for fine wine investors (Inside information)
Thu, 06/10/2010 - 20:00Hot on the heels of Fine & Rare's useful graphs of price movements of individual red Bordeaux comes fine-wine trader Bordeaux Index's announcement that they have launched 'the world's first live wine trading index'. They are also promising individual price graphs of all the wines traded,.
Shootout at the checkout (Free for all)
Thu, 06/10/2010 - 20:00Nick sent me this posting by Kate Hawkings of the university city of Bristol on the British Guild of Food Writers' forum yesterday. I thought it would be of particular interest to British wine lovers, and may perhaps entertain wine lovers elsewhere as an example of how crazy the retail environment.
Grenache to come out of the shadows (Inside information)
Wed, 06/09/2010 - 20:00The Grenache Symposium in Provence last weekend, presided over by an Anglo-French partnership of wine writers Steven Spurrier and Michel Bettane, had a modest goal: 'to shape the future of Grenache ... the most widely planted red grape in the world, and most important in economic terms' . After a.
Canadian ripples - the response (Free for all)
Wed, 06/09/2010 - 20:0011 Jun - See new addition at the bottom of this article. My article From bottom to top - Canada's wines a week last Saturday engendered various contradictory responses. First, at last, a response from the dominant wine company in Canada, Vincor, now a subsidiary of the American company.
New BYO scheme for London (Free for all)
Tue, 06/08/2010 - 20:00It is a common complaint among serious wine lovers that they drink worse wine when they go out to eat than they do at home, because they resent paying the high mark-ups that are imposed on most restaurant wine lists. We have certainly discussed this at length in our Members' forum. An enterprising.
Farr and footie (Don't quote me)
Mon, 06/07/2010 - 20:00Late yesterday a very excited Stephen Browett, owner of Britain's biggest fine-wine trader Farr Vintners, sent a triumphant round-robin email in large red letters: 'I just bought Palace..............................YESSSSSSSSSSSS!' You need to know a little about Britain, Browett and soccer to.
Wine MBA Chronicle 2 (Inside information)
Mon, 06/07/2010 - 20:00Laura Conway of San Francisco presents her second account of experiences of Bordeaux's Wine MBA programme, in Australia this time. Is the Australian spirit alive and well? You can read her initial account here . In April our team descended on Adelaide, Australia, for the second class session of.
Willunga 100 Grenache 2007 McLaren Vale (Wines of the week)
Mon, 06/07/2010 - 20:00£7.99 The very first event focused on the Grenache grape drew a particularly starry cast to Provence last weekend as well as huge enthusiasm, as detailed by Julia yesterday in G-Day at the Grenache Symposium . In many parts of the world, the easiest way to find a Grenache-based wine is to head.
G-Day at the Grenache Symposium (Inside information)
Sun, 06/06/2010 - 20:00The most astonishing part of this weekend's Grenache Symposium, held at the remote and beautiful La Verrière property (pictured) in the southern Rhône, was the congregation who came to pay homage to Grenache, the grape which Jancis described five years ago as ' ripe for re-evaluation '. On.
Dazzling Rousseau burgundies (Tasting articles)
Sun, 06/06/2010 - 20:00Christie's, London have a big burgundy sale this Thursday 10 Jun - a little fol-de-rol compared with their fine art sale of 23 Jun, when Monet's water lilies alone are expected to fetch £40million - and to that end they organised a tasting of Dom Armand Rousseau wines last week led with admirable.
All change at Chalk Hill (Inside information)
Sun, 06/06/2010 - 20:00In 2008 when the news hit that Fred and Peggy Furth, owners of Sonoma County's esteemed Chalk Hill Estate Winery , were divorcing, tongues wagged: who would get the property in the settlement? If Lewis Perdue of WineIndustryInsight.com is correct in his report last Friday, Chalk Hill Estate is for.
Just in cosa - a puff (Nick on restaurants)
Fri, 06/04/2010 - 20:00In most restaurants today the food and wine have never been more skilfully prepared, represented better value, nor been served so enthusiastically. This sweeping statement is based on hard facts. The recession has prevented restaurateurs from raising their prices. The internet has fuelled.
France's best-kept secret (Free for all)
Fri, 06/04/2010 - 20:00For wine consumers, especially those who like hand-crafted, highly individual wines that express the place where they were grown and are sensibly priced, the Languedoc-Roussillon is the perfect playground. For wine producers there, however, life is far from playful. Sales are unjustifiably.
1950 vintage lunch (Don't quote me)
Thu, 06/03/2010 - 20:006 Jul - See full background on that '1880 port' . On Wednesday I was treated to a trip down memory lane, a trip that lasted more than four hours at the lunch table. The picture here shows the glass-filled end of lunch while that below (Livingstone-Learmonth in the foreground, Sykes and Berry on.
Montalcino votes for modernism (Free for all)
Wed, 06/02/2010 - 20:00After dramatic last-minute machinations, it has just been revealed that the secret ballot to elect the new president of the Brunello di Montalcino consortium revealed that arch-modernist Ezio Rivella of Banfi garnered most votes and will now direct the fortunes of this controversial wine. Until.
Wine reclaims Geoffrey Roberts (Free for all)
Wed, 06/02/2010 - 20:00This year’s applications for the annual Geoffrey Roberts travel award were the strongest set for a long time and for the first time in six years the award has gone to a winner in wine, Geoffrey’s original speciality, rather than food. Derek Mossman Knapp [ derek@garagewineco.cl ] of.
Charting Bordeaux prices (Inside information)
Tue, 06/01/2010 - 20:00London fine-wine trader Fine & Rare has just launched an awfully cute new online tool, the ability to chart the progress of prices of individual vintages from individual chateaux and compare them with others on the same graph. Sounds a bit dry, doesn't it? But go here and start playing and if.
