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Palate Savvy/Sud de France Instagram Live Wine Basic Seminars: Cahors!
Cahors was one of the first French wine regions – other than Bordeaux, Burgundy, or Champagne – that I came to know by name. If memory serves, my acquaintance came courtesy of Kermit Lynch in the late 1980s. I had heard of Cahors and was fascinated by the moniker some
Palate Savvy/Sud de France Instagram Live Seminars
Hello everyone! Taking advantage of all the out-of-the-office time we have been given, I am conducting a series of short (15-20 minute) Instagram live broadcasts on Wednesdays and Fridays, at 1pm EST (that’s 19h in France, 10am in California) on the wines of the Occitanie region in the south of
Continuity & Renaissance: Long Island Enters Its Second Generation
It occurs to me as I post the article on Long Island wine that I wrote last fall for Gilbert & Gaillard International now, that Long Island wine launched my career as a wine writer. In 1999, I was working at the New York Times website www.nytoday.com (now defunct) and