Wine Terrorism
France is in the throes of a wine crisis. After centuries of world domination, demand for its wines is diminishing because of declining wine-drinking at home and through losing ground to new wine-producing nations abroad.
A cruel irony is inherent in France’s polarised industry today. While wine buffs can’t get enough of the acclaimed crus [...]
Riesling “Les Princes Abbes” Domaines Schlumberger 2005
Light yellow color with a hint of green. Dry, floral aromas of honey blossom on the nose. Concentrated peach, citrus and mineral flavors with hints of dried spice and honey. A light to medium-bodied wine, nicely balanced with a clean, dry finish. At 12.5%, a great choice for warmer [...]
Chateau Montelena Chardonnay 2006
The Napa Valley Winery that put California at the forefront of world-class wine making is still doing it right. Jim and Bo Barrett’s 2006 chardonnay came in first place in the 2009 Westchester Wine School tasting in Rye Brook, N.Y. Although not as famous as the 2006 Paris event, the prize proved [...]
Beaujolais ’sugar ring’ fined heavily as supermarkets escape with light sentences
The wine producers in the Beaujolais sugar case have been found guilty of illegally adding sugar to their wine and fined up to US$27,000 each – much higher than originally demanded by the prosecution.
The state prosecutor had originally requested between US$950 and US$2,000 in fines [...]
The French Wine Industry vs Parisian Bureaucrats
While the French wine industry is reeling from same economic downturn as the rest of the world, members have had to defend themselves in the National Assembly against Bachelot’s Law, which would have forced wine writers to state a warning that “the consumption of alcohol is detrimental to your [...]
Uncorking a mystery
Last September, The New Yorker published an essay on a wine-related subject by Patrick Radden Keefe. The New Yorker is known for articles that can carry a reader from a Saturday morning bath, through lunch and into the afternoon.
Keefe’s was one of those —and it was one of the most compelling articles I [...]
Red Wine
The “French paradox”— is the notion that the French have a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease, despite having a diet of cheese, chocolate, and wine.
When a description of this paradox was aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Nov. 17, 1991, it was proposed that because the French drank more red wine than [...]
