March Madness may be drawing to a close, but another intense rivalry extends into April as a group of Master Sommeliers go head-to-head in the Pinot Noir Tasting Challenge, another pre-Gala Cotes du Coeur event. Master Sommeliers Drew Hendricks, ...
Are you ready for a drink with some firepower? If you’re too nervous, just answer “no,” take another sip of your designer latte, and go about your day. But If you’re still reeling from last night for no good reason other than it was just ...
Winemaker Alfred Tesseron of Ch. Pontet-Canet We Texans pride ourselves on many things, including our hospitality, friendliness and our delicious beef. Good thing these elements were not lost on 2010 Tête de Cuvee Honoree Alfred Tesseron during his ...
I’m a simple guy. I love to eat, I love to laugh and I love to drink. Like George Costanza, if I can do all three, I’m in heaven. For me, a perfect meal consists of one part good food, five parts great wine and ten parts salubrious ...
The odd thing about playing golf in Alabama, a state in which I know almost nobody, is how identical it is to playing golf on a course at which you know everybody. So it was recently, on more than a handful of almost-too-beautiful golf courses on ...
WAKE UP…and drink? For some of you, this may not seem like an odd statement (just for the record, you are my kind of people), but to others, this is violating the social taboo of drinking before noon. Don’t worry; our forefathers have us covered ...
Your name could be on this bottle In the movie Sideways, the character Miles runs on about Pinot Noir and unwittingly compares himself to the grape when he says, “temperamental, thin-skinned, ripens early.” Most of us would rather be like ...