Many years ago, when I was just starting to become enamored of wine, my wife came home from a trip through Italy – I had not yet been – with the name in her notebook of a lovely white wine she had tasted a couple of times while in Milan.
Michelle Locke has picked up some of the Palate Press spirits beat, and this year her pursuit of spirits for this publication has taken her to Mexico, Scotland, Ireland, and France. Her Irish travel piece, though, stands out since it has one of the best ledes we've ever run. “Business or pleasure?” asked
BY: Karen MacNeil, award-winning national wine educator and consultant WHAT: Gives you a bit of an insider look at the wine world that most people don’t have access to. How and where just about every wine in the world is made. How to taste wine and how to serve it.
BY: Jancis Robinson, one of the top figures in wine, headquartered in the UK. She’s a wine judge and writer, but not a wine snob at all. Written with long-time associate Julia Harding, and with the assistance of many other wine experts including Richard E. Smart, Valerie Lavigne and Denis
BY: Graham Holliday, former Reuters correspondent, BBC journalism trainer, and author of the blog noodlepie WHAT: An English blogger/journalist goes on a culinary quest for the best street food in Vietnam. FOR WHOM: For foodies, world travelers (more adventurous ones) WHY: I loved this book, but must confess to a
“My father didn’t really want to sell the business,” Vitalie Taittinger recalls. “I think he felt a little shame, a lot of pain, that it wasn’t the courageous thing to do to sell the family heritage. I was very sad for my father.” It was the summer of 2005, and
For many, Sangiovese and Tuscany are practically synonymous. But, while Chianti and Brunello immediately spring to mind, the less familiar Morellino di Scansano offers equally enjoyable wines by another name. Situated in the Maremma province, in the southernmost part of Tuscany, the Morellino territory is nearly equidistant between Rome and
Who doesn’t love a place where the vineyards are steep, green gardens that produce fragrant white wines made with pinot blanc, sauvignon blanc, gewürztraminer and kerner? The elegant red wines here are made from pinot noir, lagrein and merlot grapes. This is in the far north of Italy, bordering on