Beer Spotlight - Palate Press

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If you Google "Nobel Prize wine," you'll learn that Brian Schmidt is the only Nobel-winning winemaker. Schmidt and his wife own and operate Maipenrai in Canberra, Australia, and he shared the Nobel in Physics in 2011 for contributing to the case that the universe is expanding – work which, it's

Vino Nobile: The Talk of Montepulciano

Roger Morris

Features

6 min read

It is a Saturday evening in late summer in Montepulciano, the Tuscan hill town that is the namesake of Vino Nobile, which, alongside Chianti and Brunello, makes up the holy trinity of Tuscan Sangiovese wines. I arrived here yesterday with a couple of other American food and wine writers. Along

What We’re Drinking – 2014 Kruger-Rumpf Riesling Trocken

David Honig

Wine Reviews

1 min read

The color if very pale straw, clear and bright. Honey, white flowers, and hints of lemon zest show on the nose. Citrus zest, green apples, and a hint of ginger are followed by honey, with lingering lemon. This is a good wine for the dollar, with good acidity balancing a

How to get on this MW’s wine list

Becky Sue Epstein

Feature Stories

7 min read

“This has been a dream of mine for two years,” the Israeli consul confided to me a few nights ago. At this point I don’t know what you’re thinking, but it wasn’t a secret military mission we were talking about. It was wine. Of course. This slight-but-compact diplomat, dressed in

In Italy, Pinot Grigio gets a varietal “Super DOC”

Elisabetta Tosi

Feature Stories

4 min read

How many wine appellations are there in Italy? More than 300. There are so many that most Italian people don’t know about all of them. For context, the law which established the “appellations of origin” for Italian wines was published in 1963. A few years later, in 1966, the very

At VITEC, Spanish wines get custom treatment

Erika Szymanski

Feature Stories

5 min read

The stand-out sensory experience from a recent week in Barcelona came courtesy of a nameless red vermut at a natural wine bar. It showed up in the customary regional fashion, with a citrus peel over a big ice cube, looking far more like sangria than fine wine. At €2.50, it

What We’re Drinking – 2005 Domaine Marc Kreydenweiss Pinot Gris Moenchberg Vendanges Tardives

David Honig

Wine Reviews

1 min read

The color is gold, giving the appearance of a much older wine. It seems oxidized at first, but blows off quickly. Honey, caramel, lime peel, and smoke show on the nose. On the palate it is on the sweet side, like a Spatlese, leaning toward Auslese. Honey, lime zest, and

Hooked on Haggis

Michelle Locke

Features

3 min read

I was in Cognac one hot summer day, trying to make conversation with a producer who spoke about as much English as I do French, and the situation was getting sticky in every way when he suddenly asked me whether I had been to Scotland. Yes, I had. Well, then,

Wine

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SOUL OF A LION

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Spirits

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Why Low-Alcoholic Wine May Be Increasing & An Adult Beverage Option; Even No-Alc can be Tasty

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Cognac chills out

Travel

Sampling Wine and History at a Medieval Estate in Tuscany: Castello di Meleto

SOUL OF A LION

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Southwest Colorado is the Place for Wine like These from Ordinary Fellow – Far from Ordinary

Hospitality

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Palio Wins San Francisco Dining after 35 Years

Classic Chinese Fine Dining at Z&Y Peking Duck

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Vino Nobile: The Talk of Montepulciano

What We’re Drinking – 2014 Kruger-Rumpf Riesling Trocken

How to get on this MW’s wine list

In Italy, Pinot Grigio gets a varietal “Super DOC”

At VITEC, Spanish wines get custom treatment

What We’re Drinking – 2005 Domaine Marc Kreydenweiss Pinot Gris Moenchberg Vendanges Tardives

Hooked on Haggis