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Tough Economy Hits Hospices de Beaune Auction (Wine Spectator)

The Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune is the traditional home of the Hospices de Beaune charity wine auction. "I hope that prices will go down," said Bouchard Pčre & Fils owner Joseph Henriot, moments before the start of the 148th Hospices de Beaune charity wine ...

From PETER HELLMAN, Wine Spectator,  17 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Wine Spectator,  Clos de la Roche

Bridging the Gap Between Summer and Fall Wines

If San Pellegrino water (with a twist of lime) was wine, I would have been in deep rehab during the waning summer days of late August. Summer is the time when I'm more eager to slice open a perfect Long Island tomato, or husk a just-picked ear of ...

From PETER HELLMAN, The New York Sun,  16 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Corton-Charlemagne,  Robert Mondavi

Staking Out Brooklyn Turf for a Winery

The drab ex-factory building on Dobbins Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is an unlikely command post for a bold, one-woman foray into urban winemaking. But that's where, in a small second-floor office with a single ivy-covered window, ex-engineer Alie ...

From PETER HELLMAN, The New York Sun,  12 Aug 2008

Nectar Wine Bar Brings Downtown Vibe to Harlem

In the beginning, there was only Harlem Vintage. Nestled into a new-wave apartment building on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, it opened four years ago and was a pioneering wine shop in an area where buying wine or alcohol usually meant pushing your ...

From PETER HELLMAN, The New York Sun,  9 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Frederick Douglass,  Martin Johnson,  Morgan Stanley

New Gourmet Hot Dogs Make Their Way to the Market

From her childhood in Gascony to motherhood in New York, food maven Ariane Daguin long kept her distance from hot dogs and all the unknowable things within them. "I just told people that it's better not to eat them," she said in a telephone ...

From PETER HELLMAN, The New York Sun,  1 Jul 2008

A Private 19th-Century Experience

Looking for a new yet straight out of the 19th century venue for an intimate private dinner in Midtown? Chef Alain Ducasse, whose appetite for antiques is as avid as his appetite for what's on the plate, has just the spot. A drawer along the wall of ...

From PETER HELLMAN, The New York Sun,  3 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Alain Ducasse

Pink Sips

Like linen suits and Panama hats, rosé wines come into season over the Memorial Day weekend. Their straightforward duties have always been to be prettily tinted, well-chilled, and zingy. That said, increasing interest in rosés has begotten what Stephen ...

From PETER HELLMAN, The New York Sun,  21 May 2008

Domaine Ponsot Proprietor Halts Sale of Fake Bottles

Domaine Ponsot proprietor Laurent Ponsot has asked that suspicious lots of "Ponsot" wines be held in Acker's warehouse until the fake wines' origins can be determined. Midway through Acker Merrall & Condit's April 25 wine auction, held at the Manhattan ...

From PETER HELLMAN, Wine Spectator,  16 May 2008

Food Blogger Takes on the Biggest Name in Wine: Robert Parker

In her quirky and endearing new memoir, "The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization" (Harcourt, $23), wine writer Alice Feiring sharpens up the debate over the palate and power of Robert Parker, the world's reigning wine ...

From PETER HELLMAN, The New York Sun,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: Robert B. Parker,  Philip Roth

Hunting for Spring Morels

Wild mushroom hunters are usually a friendly and generous lot. But not when it comes to disclosing a prize hunting ground. As a member of the band of amateurs called New York Mycological Society, for example, I'd go to the gallows before giving up the ...

From PETER HELLMAN, The New York Sun,  30 Apr 2008

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