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Daily Wine News: Need To Know
Posted by Wine News | Posted on 04-30-2014
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In Food Republic, Chad Walsh lists “The 9 People You Need To Know In American Wine Right Now.”
“”Dan Petroski is… part of a wave of restless, sometimes radical winemakers expanding Napa’s repertoire beyond big, powerful reds.” In Wine-Searcher, Elin McCoy suggests five “alternative whites for spring” from California.
In Wine-Searcher, W. Blake Gray wonders whether the French Laundry has the world’s highest corkage fee. Bill Ward comments, saying, “what’s especially galling about this snotty arrogance is that the markups on the Laundry’s wine list are truly beyond obscene.” Tom Wark tries to imagine how it’s justified.
“Four lady somms. Four bottles of txakolina. Two porrons. One big city. Meet Jordan Salcito, Ashley Santoro, Pascaline Lepeltier and Michelle Biscieglia. Watch them perform the feat of urban porroning.”
Ben O’Donnell offers some thoughts on “How to Buy Bordeaux Bordeaux.”
Reporting from the Pebble Beach Food & Wine, Lily Elaine Hawk Wakawaka celebrates Bob Travers’s tenure at Mayacamas.
“This Mother’s Day, sommeliers will be on hand to help you select just the right wine to go with that special meal out. And some of those somms will be moms.” In the Associated Press, Michelle Locke reports on the growing number of female somms.
On Slave to the Grape, Mick Cameron chats with Marcus Garcia of Fleur de Lys in two segments (Part One; Part Two.).