A jury in Manhattan sided with Bill Koch in his lawsuit over 24 counterfeit wines. The collector extraordinaire and energy magnate had sued Eric Greenberg, a wine collector who at one point had a cellar of 70,000 bottles, for selling him the counterfeit bottles. The jury awarded Koch $379,000 in damages to cover the fraudulent [...]
SPIT: celebrity wine Buzzfeed asks sommelier Michael Madrigale to taste and rate celebrity wines in a blind tasting. Hilarity ensues. SIPPED: hermaphroditic Himalayan elderberries A funny send-up of tasting note terms from Keith Levenberg. SPIT: say pleas Rudy Kurniawan went before a Manhattan judge yesterday; trial is set to start September 9, or thereabouts. [AFP] [...]
In a surprising setback for selling wine online, the New York State State Liquor Authority ruled yesterday that the sale of wine by third-party “advertisers” violates its code. Some online sales and marketing companies, such as wine clubs and Lot 18, sell or market wine online without a New York retail license, instead rely on [...]
Climate change threatens to redraw the wine map over the next few decades. That we know. A new paper suggests that the establishment of new vineyards in cooler areas will endanger the habitat of animals ranging from grizzlies to pandas. The findings seem to be structured to grab headlines and cause alarm–who would ever want [...]
Drew Barrymore, wine curator, comments on her wine label to KSBW: “I love pinot grigio. I’ve been a pinot grigio drinker most of my life–after 21, of course.” “It has beautiful notes and it is lacking in acidity but full of fruit.” “Women love rosé and pinot grigio and sauvignon blanc. And we like to [...]
In a surprising move, Amazon did a volte face a while back: instead of fighting collecting sales taxes, which was creating an image problem, the online retailer decided to collect taxes and move its previously isolated warehousing closer to metropolitan areas. So, in 2014, Amazon will open a mammoth fulfillment center (one million sq.ft.) in [...]
Wine writers and members of the wine trade descended on Bordeaux this week for tasting samples of the 2012 vintage, which was a difficult vintage. Even though the malolactic fermentations have barely finished and the final blends are nowhere near completed, the Bordelais pre-sell each vintage (en primeur) two years before it is actually released. [...]
What would happen if a California winery uprooted Cabernet Sauvignon to plant hipster grape varieties–only to find the critic who championed Cabernet is…baaaaack?!!? The above “Downfall” video by Red To Brown Wine explores these real-life themes (for those who haven’t followed, Parker has resumed reviewing current releases of Northern California wines for the WA).
Thanks for the interest and comments in our survey results posted last week. I was on a family vacation so having those preloaded provided me a brief respite–especially when I discovered I inadvertently left my laptop at home! Channeling my inner Nate Silver, the results of the survey were pretty interesting, so I thought I’d [...]
The most influential person in the New York City world of wine is Eric Asimov, chief wine critic of the New York Times. This is according to our survey of industry elites, where Asimov was the lead vote-getter by a wide margin. A graduate of Wesleyan University, and a nephew of Isaac Asimov, Eric Asimov [...]
Paul Grieco is the second most influential person in wine in New York City according to our survey of industry elites. Grieco is a partner at Restaurant Hearth in the East Village and in the Terroir wine bars that now have five locations in the city. Grieco cut his wine chops at his family restaurant, [...]
Michael Skurnik is the third most influential person in wine in New York City according to our survey of industry elites. Although he studied zoology as an undergrad, he got bitten by the wine bug while working at Windows to the World under Kevin Zraly. After a few other jobs in the wine world, he [...]
Daniel Johnnes is the fourth most influential person in wine in New York City according to our survey of industry elites. Johnnes, who has been aptly called the dean of NYC sommeliers, wears many hats. He made a name for himself at Drew Nieporent’s Montrachet in the 1980s and 1990s, building it into a not [...]
According to our survey of industry elites, polling for the fifth most influential person in NYC wine today was extremely close. But the award goes to Joe Dressner, the pioneering importer who died in 2011 after a battle with cancer whose influence continues to be felt. Dressner started importing wine over twenty years ago. He [...]
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