... won. Sponsored and run by the New York Wine and Grape Foundation (NYWGF), a nonprofit statewide trade organization based in the in newly opened New York Wine and Culinary Center . Howard Goldberg reported in the New York Times , "The wine industry and influential wine periodicals treat the contest as the broadest, most representative index of the quality and styles of New York’s expanding wine...

Napa’s Quintessa tries sunblock for grapes.  Biodynamic sunblock. [Decanter] Rain, rain, go away. Fall on Bordeaux some other day. [Decanter] Pete Wells weighs in on his new gig as NYT dining editor: “Blogs are not our competition. What print media do and what bloggers do complement each other; they shouldn’t be competing.” [NYMag via Eater] In Massachusetts...

As you might have seen one place or another, I’m changing jobs. Specifically, I left MSNBC.com last Friday after one last column, and after just 10 months back in New York, I’m headed West again. I’ll become the wine editor at the San Francisco Chronicle at the end of the month. For me...

Herman Weimer’s splendiferous riesling takes top slot at NY’s biggest wine competition. To balance things out, Dr. Konstantin Frank’s winery took top winery honors. Everybody wins! Will “Mosel-Saar-Ruwer” become just “Mosel”? Apparently so. Seems the Saar rigidity of riesling structure and the Ruwer ethereality will be subsumed under a two-syllable shortcut.  Thus spake modernity. [Decanter...

Orgasm vs. foodgasm. [Details, via Gawker] The Brits are getting all flustered about the notion that many wines are priced at intentionally higher prices, just so they can be sold more cheaply. Decanter touched on this recently, and now The Guardian weighs in. At least one supplier, Constellation, defends the ...

Filed under: Tastings , Wine , Whisky , East Coast , Spirits This weekend sees East Hampton, New York turned into the 2nd Hamptons Wine and Food Festival . The organisers are promising a treat following last years success with a weekend full of parties, wine and food tasting seminars, cooking ... then there is a 'full menu of culinary entertainment, exploring emerging wine and food trends from around...

On October 21st and 22nd of this year, there will be no finer place to hang your hat as a wine lover than Tarrytown New York while attending the Greater New York Wine and Food Expo .  Not your usual “grapefest” or “vinoworld” event, this one is serious.  Casual wine lovers need not apply, no sir ... , and the wine must carry a minimum price of $15.  That is alot of quality sampling folks (oh my aching...

Want to buy some of Paris’ wine collection? No, not Parisian collectors — the city of Paris, as in Jacques Chirac’s personal stash when he was mayor. [Decanter] Maria Hines, chef at Seattle’s Earth & Ocean, is departing to start her own place, Tilth. Great news for Maria, sad for E&O, which has overcome its no-longer-quite-so-hip design...

In the previous article I mentioned we would be in attendance at the New York show, in Tarrytown ... VinUnici portfolio and philosophy, while being in compliance in the three states of New York, New Jersey ... with New York Strip Steaks, done to perfection on the grill - after a round of golf!  What a day ... refers to a drier “level” of residual sugar in the produced wine.  We WILL discuss this at the show...

After a fine birthday meal last night at Masa, today opened on a far more somber note, with news that Johnny Apple is gone. This was not a huge surprise to those who knew him; he had been in decline after a battle with cancer. But that doesn’t diminish the sense ...