IN WEDNESDAY’S BOSTON GLOBE FOOD SECTION we reported on our crawl of newish, higher-end burger joints in Atlanta, but last week we ducked out of town to snatch a few days in Montréal and Québec City. Our main interest, as you might guess, being the new & slightly used wine bars and restos there. To pack…
All posts in May 2012
Of horsepower, megapixels, thread count, and alcohol in Napa cabernet
Was the deed done by Mother Nature, in the vineyard, with her little heat index? Or was it done by Mr. Winemaker, in the cellar, by means of a doubled-barreled roto-fermenter? Thanks to Felix Salmon who blogs on a variety of subjects for Reuters and recently drew our attention to an article that appeared in the…
Tokai: How they get the sweet in
AXA is a big French insurance company that also owns a number of important wine properties. The wine part of the business is run by Englishman Christian Seely whose blog I peek in on now and then. I don’t normally find it the most interesting writing on the web, since it often has a promotional…
Drinking One Tier down
A WINEMAKER FORTUNATE ENOUGH to have a vineyard within a prestige appellation is entitled to the cachet the name conveys and earns a correspondingly high price for his wine. Another, whose property may be right next door but in different, more ordinary appellation, enjoys neither the cachet nor the higher price – despite the fact…
On whether red wine can ever be fish wine
WHEN suppertime rolled around last Sunday night and I had an open bottle of a favorite red wine standing by (2008 Closerie des Alisiers Hautes Cotes de Beaune), I decided not to trek down to the cellar for another bottle – even though what was coming out of the oven made the choice a bit…
Absent-minded winemaking and the Romantic tradition
IF YOU HAVEN’T at least heard about the natural wine movement, it’s likely you haven’t been paying attention. If you have been paying attention you probably know that it’s an amorphous phenomenon with heroes but no real leaders, that it’s fueled by a good deal of rhetoric and earnest manifesto-making, that it frequently marches in…