Blog Index
James Suckling
Drinking Fake Sassicaia
Posted: 11:35 AM ET, 12/11/08
I drank some fake Sassicaia last weekend at a friend’s house near Pisa. The wine wasn’t mine, but I told my friend that his bottle didn’t make sense. The big giveaway was the branded cork that didn’t have a vintage printed on it. Read more
James Laube
A Stunning New Napa Valley Cabernet
Posted: 05:09 PM ET, 12/10/08
Jeff Ames first crossed paths with us at Wine Spectator 10 years ago, when he applied for a job in our tasting department in San Francisco.
We liked his knowledge and passion for wine and even though we didn’t hire him for the assistant tasting coordinator position, we figured he would go on to bigger and better things, which he did. Read more
Harvey Steiman
Wine Matching with Aloha
Posted: 01:59 PM ET, 12/09/08
If it seems as though I have been missing in action, blame it on Hawaii. I am on a long-planned vacation, got here late last week, and in the flurry of departure never wrote an “I’ll be away” blog.
My wife and I came here meaning to hang loose, walk on the beach, grill some fish for ourselves for dinner at a home we’re renting on the windward shore of O’ahu, 20 minutes from Honolulu. Read more
James Laube
Sizing Up Harvest 2008 in California
Posted: 06:03 PM ET, 12/08/08
We editors at Wine Spectator are putting together a global overview of vintage 2008.
In California it has appropriately been labeled a year of extremes – drought, hard frost, odd set, staggered ripening, heat spikes at harvest for some grapes and then, when all was said and done, a pretty good vintage in terms of quality. Read more
James Molesworth
How Do You Choose Your Information Sources?
Posted: 03:32 PM ET, 12/08/08
A couple months back, during an energetic debate in our online forums, I made the following statement regarding the blogosphere:
"This is the problem with the 'blogosphere'. It's a lazy person's journalism. No one does any real research, but rather they just slap some hyperlinks up and throw a little conjecture at the wall, and presto! you get some hits and traffic. Read more
2008 Harvest
In Tuscany, After the Grapes We Harvest the Olives
Posted: 01:14 PM ET, 12/08/08
Posted by Barbara Kronenberg-Widmer
At Brancaia in Chianti Classico, our last harvest is completed—the harvest of the olives. Of course, the olives and olive oil production are not as important to us as the wine production. Read more
James Suckling
Better Deals and Less Cheap Wine
Posted: 11:40 AM ET, 12/08/08
I am feeling much better now. Thanks to all of you for your best wishes following my bout with pneumonia. It looks all clear. In fact, I am feeling better than ever!
I was thinking over the weekend about the economic downturn and what we are all doing for buying and drinking good wine, and I came across an e-mail from a friend who is a retailer on the West Coast. Read more
James Laube
Gearing Up For A Retrospective Tasting
Posted: 02:49 PM ET, 12/05/08
The office sure smelled good when I walked in this morning. The aromas of mature Cabernet filled the air.
Today I’m tasting a flight of 1998 Cabernets, part of an annual exercise to look back at vintage at age 10. The 1998 vintage wasn’t my favorite. Read more
2008 Harvest
Making Mourvèdre—Day 24
Posted: 12:36 PM ET, 12/05/08
Posted by Brian Loring
November 22: Fermentation slowed way down the past few days, and the caps in the fermenters started to weaken. I haven’t really been doing punch-downs as much as just getting the cap wet. Read more
Bruce Sanderson
Final Reflections on Buenos Aires
Posted: 12:31 PM ET, 12/05/08
I was heartened to see that business in Buenos Aires restaurants picked up toward the end of my week-long stay.
It began with a cholesterol-packed rib-eye at La Cabrera, the Palermo parilla that is so popular they added a second location a few doors down the street. Read more
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