Kurobuta Pork, Cote Rotie, A Perfect Wine and Food Pairing
The key to creating the perfect wine and food pairing is, keep it simple. Buy the best ingredients possible. Don’t over cook your meal. With wine, look for similar texture and weight.
Author Jeff Leve
1991 Vintage Port Blind Tasting with Roy Hersh
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying Vintage Port when their vibrant personalities are still forming and primary. After all, it helps to understand what these youngsters are like in order to ascertain a specific shipper’s house style and ability to improve with age.
2011 Bordeaux Blanc Harvest is taking place at a slow pace.
Gentle pickings take place before the serious harvesting of the grapes to produce the white Bordeaux wines begins taking place. The purpose is to help train the staff while making sure everything is in working order for when the fruit starts rolling in.
2011 Bordeaux Harvest Starts Early, Replay of 1893?
Until recently, many vintners were sure 2011 would be one of the earliest harvests in history, Some growers were sure you would have to go all the way back to 1893 to find a vintage that was picked as early as 2011. That is no longer the case.
Lafleur Pomerol Tasting, 1989 – 2010 with Jacques Guinaudeau
At Petrus, Christian Moueix has said, the only wine that competes with, and can be better than Petrus is Chateau Lafleur.
Haut Bailly Vertical Tasting 2010 to 2000 with Veronique Sanders
In 1998 Robert G. Wilmers, a Harvard-educated American banker and his French wife, Elisabeth purchased Haut Bailly. Thanks to their willingness to spare no expense attitude and the desire to produce the best wines possible, things have never been better at the property.
2010 Chateau Latour 1996 Latour Two Legendary Wines Tasted
Chateau Latour is now incredibly expensive. The current vintage offered for sale is selling for more than $1,000 per bottle! Is it worth it? That depends…
