An Evening With Laurent Drouhin

Howard Hewitt
Feature Stories
6 min read
Laurent Drouhin is a tall man with disarming charm. The great grandson of the original founder of Maison Joseph Drouhin, Laurent was in Indianapolis on March 25, 2010, to pour through a tasting of his company’s 2008 Burgundy, Chablis, and-read more-

Field Report: Bordeaux en Primeurs

Becky Sue Epstein
Feature Stories
5 min read
Who sets the prices for premium Bordeaux wines? Buyers and journalists do, descending on Bordeaux in early April each year to taste hundreds of the classed growths and other top-level wines in a marathon week of regional travel—by invitation. Watching-read more-

Blogging Kerfuffle at Barbera Week 2010

Fredric Koeppel
Features
5 min read
The organizers of “Barbera Week 2010,” this year’s version of the annual festival held in Asti, came up with a concept to give the event a contemporary slant: invite a team of bloggers to participate in the tastings and winery-read more-