What kind of a premium does a bottle of 115-year-old wine command? We'll find out on October 17, when Sotheby's hosts an auction of Château Margaux wines that Jamie Ritchie, the CEO of Sotheby's Wine, ...
There is much grumbling in the wine world among traditionalists that every winemaker everywhere is crafting wines to be drunk far too young. Like immediately. Like tonight. Now, when your typical ...
In life, if we are very lucky, we may get to enjoy a few peak experiences. Skiing Aspen Mountain on a powder Tuesday, courtside seats for a game seven or trekking to Machu Picchu may resonate for some ...
Both Château Margaux of Bordeaux and Inglenook Vineyard of Napa Valley in California share a winemaking advisor whose cross-continent experience provides advantages to both estates. A native of ...
It was an auction lot so good, it sold three times. Lot number five at the Emeril Lagasse Foundation’s Carnivale du Vin on Nov. 16 was “Chef Charlie Trotter’s Legacy,” starring a bottle of Château ...
The new Nouveau Chai is dedicated to the production of both red and white wine and extends from the eastern wing of the nineteenth century complex. With its open enclosure, the structure houses a new ...
The eminent American food writer M.F.K. Fisher, a woman who considered eating well one of the “arts of life,” once very noted that “wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or ...
When her father died in 1980, Corinne Mentzelopoulos inherited a business empire that included 1,600 grocery stores, 80 buildings in central Paris, a hotel that was once the home of Louis XIV—and a ...
Rossello Vini, a family vineyard in Italy’s Piedmonte, has been blessed with spectacular looks and wines. Café Margaux has tapped unto this enological cornucopia as a fitting end for its 2023-2024 ...
BORDEAUX IS CHANGING. A construction boom is sweeping through its ancient byways and tranquil villages, transforming its sober, classical architecture with futuristic, curvaceous lines. If the château ...