ShareJoseph Phelps, that is. A few representatives of the Ladies Tasting Society, drawn by our long-time love of the winery, forked out $150 each for a special dinner paired with Joseph Phelps’s latest vintages. Two of us, having just returned from a week’s family vacation in a spot more known for its surf breaks than [...]

ShareThe indications have been around since the much-publicized “French Paradox,” i.e., the observation that although the French people exist on foie gras and rich sauces, they live longer: Red wine, the health experts theorized, is an important part of the “mediterranean diet” and might keep those smoking, meuniere-loving Frenchies so healthy.
In the latest development, scientists [...]

ShareAs a send-off to myself, I offered to raid my cellar for a wine-and-cheese reception at the last meeting of my term on the board of a New York City-based foundation. But then I realized, they don’t let you on the plane now with liquids. When the ban went into place, most people worried aloud [...]

ShareSniff at this: French gourmets have their apron ties in a twist over news that the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë is selling off half of the wines in the cellar of his predecessor, Jacques Chirac, housed in a vault beneath Paris’s landmark Hotel de Ville (pictured here). It’s not that Delanoë, like our head [...]