The Paso Robles Wine Country is one of the fastest growing premium vineyard and winery regions in California.
Fifty miles south of the city of Mendoza the valley of Tunuyan feels less like a valley and more like a vast, kneeling supplicant to the immediate, looming bulk of the Northern Andes mountains. Though the valley floor is massive — sweeping away from the jagged, snow capped peaks in every possible direction as if […]
German collector and dealer Hardy Rodenstock has asked a federal court in New York City to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of fraud.
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Cameron Hughes is a negotiator who buys wine on the bulk market for a good price, blends and bottles it, then gives consumers a good deal. (It’s a concept that’s a little like the Charles Shaw brand, aka Two-Buck Chuck, except that Hughes’ wines are small lots of high-quality wine.) Nearly all the Cameron Hughes […]
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Impressive for its array of ripe, rich, intense flavors, its tight focus and its depth and concentration. Loads of currant, plum and blackberry fruit are front and center, showing off a hint of mocha-laced oak and ending with firm …
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Wineries are sparring over two proposals to split up Paso Robles into two or as many as 11 subappellations.
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A monthly column in the Yale Daily News offers tips for gourmet cooking with items from the dining room buffet, a few condiments and a microwave oven.
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The sunny presence of lemons is more welcome than ever in winter, but forget lemonade; these cold days require more resourceful uses of the fruit.
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Broilers sit underused much of their lives but they produce results you cannot duplicate any other way and even have some advantages over outdoor grills.
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“This was at the Hollywood Wine Society’s Mouton Seminar, March 1998, followed four months later by the Penning-Rowsells’ 10-year first growth tasting at which it showed off its richness of bouquet and flavor. Yet still youthfull looking, with rich, toasty nose which then reminded me of warm tea and, after an hour sodden wholemeal […]