Wine Dinners Done Well: The Secret
I've attended a lot of wine dinners. I really enjoy them. And I organize and present at least two wine dinners a month for tasting...
Open That Bottle Night
Around 2000, Dorothy J. Gaither and her husband John Brecher used their wine column in the Wall Street Journal to found what they called...
A New Year...
The first month of 2017 is almost over...and I have posted nothing. To some degree, I've been hibernating. Hibernating from...
Blackberry Farm
We recently returned from Blackberry Farm in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. If you love food and wine you probably already know that...
Chateau Musar
Field & Main, the outstanding new restaurant in Marshall, Virginia, recently hosted a wine dinner featuring Gaston Hochar of Chateau...
But First, Champagne...
This week, David White launched his new book, But First, Champagne, in a series of dinners in and around the DC area. I attended dinner...
You Have to Take a Look...
Recently, I wrote about special occasion wines and that two of my three categories of special occasion wines are marked by the fact that...
Thinking About Wine....
There's lots of wine in the world. In her recent guide to wine grapes, Jancis Robinson identified 1,368 different varieties. Multiply...
Field & Main Grand Opening: A Triumph
Last night, the walls of the lovely ~two-hundred year-old renovated building on Marshall's Main Street pulsed with energy as Neal and...
Endless Summer
Those of us "of a certain age" remember Endless Summer, a film that celebrated surfing around the world and the search for the perfect...
