Wine

Relax. It's Rosé.

Every so often, I come across the argument that rosé lacks merit as a wine, and, therefore, has become over-hyped. I disagree--why manufacture controversy over a drink as pleasurable as rosé? To the residents of southern France, rosé equals lifestyle; I doubt they would agree their Provençal exi ... More >>

Arthur on Smith's Joe Isidori Prefers Italian and Long Island Wines

Food and wine are natural companions, so I'm polling some of New York's most illustrious chefs to find out what kind of wine they are drinking off and on the job. After establishing they actually drink wine (a surprising number prefer beer!), I'm asking a few questions to find out who's got a pencha ... More >>

10 Bottles of Sherry to Drink Right Now

To understand sherry, you must drink it! And if you were paying attention during my interview with New York's Queen of Sherry, Carla Rzeszewski, then you know to drink it with food. Here's a simple formula for exploring the umami flavors of sherry: Chill the bottles. Meanwhile, invite over some fr ... More >>

What's Happening: Harmony of Beer and Cheese and Cassoulet Cookoff

Monday, January 7th The Harmony of Beer and Cheese: If you're sick of pairing cheese with wine, Murray's Cheese is offering a beer and cheese pairing class for $75. The experts at Murray's say to pair German smoked Rauchbiers with a "meaty washed rind cheese" to create a "bacon bomb." Sounds delight ... More >>

8 Not Bad Boxed Wines to Pour at Your Next Party

My last memory of drinking boxed wine is from a college football game. A friend duct-taped a Franzia Chardonnay bladder under khaki pants like a wino's version of a flask. During the game, he would roll up his pant leg, flick the spigot and fill-up nearby students' cups with the plonk. Given this w ... More >>

Help! What's the Best Gift for a Wine Lover?

What's a really awesome gift to get for a person who knows way more about wine than me? I don't want to spend a ton of money on some fancy bottle, especially if I'm not sure it's to their taste ... Help! It can be a bit intimidating to pick out a gift for a wine nerd, but it shouldn't be. Defini ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Aki Matsuri, An Apple Festival

It's the first week of October and we have for you a round-up of a lot of great restaurant deals and specials. Check it out: Tuesday, October 2 Pulled Pork @ City Grit. City Grit will be hosting a pulled pork dinner. Tickets are $55 and there will be a slow roasted bo ssäm snack, some fried chick ... More >>

Are Organic and Biodynamic Wines Worth It?

Last week I attended a panel about biodynamic and organic agriculture and its influence on the wine industry. Roger Cohen's recent op-ed in the New York Times was a hot topic -- the one in which he enthusiastically (and myopically) applauded a study by Stanford University that concluded organic food ... More >>

Ladies, the Wine Industry is Courting You!

Considering women now buy more than half the wine that ends up on the American table, a few companies have devised marketing tricks to stand out. I submit the following: Exhibit A The wine purse. No, there aren't pockets for your cell phone, mirror and gloss. That might make the packaging useful as ... More >>

Rare Wine Dealer Arrested for Selling Counterfeit Burgundy

The FBI has entered the the esoteric world of rare wine collecting, arresting a Los Angeles collector who was influential enough to hike up international prices of wine, and accusing him of fraud.

What's Happening This Week: Charity Wine Tasting

Maslow 6's Charity Tasting At this Tribeca wine shop (211B West Broadway), a tasting will help fund a music education non-profit -- the Harmony Foundation. Starting at 6 p.m. Monday, attendees can sample wines, meats, cheeses, and live music. Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated to the group ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Turkey Leg Ball

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Turkey Leg Ball 2011 This boozy foodie event might be sold out, but you can still try to win tickets to Wednesday's dining and drinking fest. Just sign up on Immaculate Infatuation ... More >>

Winton's Champagne Bar's Brian Gefter Talks Bubbles

Bubbly Brian Gefter​ It might not be your average, run-of-the-mill, everyman's bar. But if you're looking for the city's most carefully curated list of rare and grower Champagnes, Winston's Champagne Bar (420 Park Avenue South) is it. And if you don't know your Cristal from your Krug, no worri ... More >>

The House Wine Is Finally Ready at Brooklyn Winery

jessicamelling/flickrA wine by any other name...​When you start a winery, especially one that makes reds, you have to account for some lag time between launching the business and seeing profit. It takes time for wines to, well, age. Brooklyn Winery, which launched last year, has also been oper ... More >>

You Can Now Booze It Up at Joy Burger Bar

Lauren ShockeyIt's time for semi-alfresco drinking​Joy Burger Bar now has even more reason to be joyful. After a month or so of being open, it now has its liquor license, completing the burger-fries-beer trifeca.

New York Wine; French Bubbly (That Isn't Champagne)

​Looking for a locavoric gift this holiday season? Brooklyn Winery, Brooklyn Oenology, and The Red Hook Winery are among hyper-local wine producers right here in New York City. [NY Post] Champagne isn't the only French bubbly. Eric Asimov samples a Huët Pétillant sparkling Vouvray, Langlois ... More >>

Adour's Didier Elena Talks Katz's and Champagne (Though Not Together)

Bubbly type​ Before coming to New York in June, Didier Elena spent five years in the calm, bubbly-producing region of northern France, where he worked as executive chef at Hotel Le Château des Crayères, which boasts two Michelin stars. Preceding his Chateau stint, he was under Alain Ducasse' ... More >>

Mezcal Still the Next Big Thing; Pinot Grigio Makes a Comeback Among Snobs

​Officials are moving forward with plans to replace the dated bar cars on Metro-North Railroad's Connecticut trains with new cars that look more like a sit-down pubs on wheels. [Wall Street Journal] VinPerfect, a new type of screw cap that regulates air into the wine bottle, joins the synthet ... More >>

Download Holly Miranda's Set Sunday Night At In Vino

​We are not immediately predisposed to the Vino in Vino concert series -- which "matches artists with winemakers for a night of music and vino" -- but we are fortunately extremely predisposed to sharp-edged dream-pop belter Holly Miranda, whose show at Bowery Ballroom a few months back was one ... More >>

Terroir's Riesling Evangelism Taken to Task by Frank Bruni

Basheertome, FlickrNo other choices for you, white wine fan​ Riesling fans wanting to persuade their friends of its charms: Apparently Terroir has your back -- in a major way. The wine bar and restaurant co-owned by Paul Grieco and Marco Canora has taken the rather ferocious step of eliminati ... More >>

Vyne Wine Bar's Kaasknöpfle

​Vyne recently opened in the West Village, offering a wine list that's weighted towards white wines, and a number of requisite small dishes and snacks.

Josh DeChellis of La Fonda del Sol Suggests You Try Grilling on a Wine Barrel

Carne de vino.​You know what it's like: you're about to grill a beautiful cut of meat a plancha when, lo and behold, you realize you've forgotten the plancha. Josh DeChellis, executive chef at La Fonda del Sol, found himself in just such a predicament while in wine country when he came up with ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Harvest Menu and Austrian Wine

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! First Anniversary Week Spina June 21-26 The East Village fresh pasta house is celebrating the big one with a week of special menus and wine-pairing dinners. Thr ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Spanish Wine Dinner; National Hamburger Day

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! 3rd Annual Metromix Hot Plates Live Chelsea Market Monday, May 24, 6-9 p.m. Metromix's restaurant editors round up their favorite picks for this year's "Hot Pla ... More >>

Pot-Smoking Chefs Fuel Stoner Cuisine Movement; P.F. Chang Launches Private Wine Label

​When "infamously gluttonous" Mario Batali jumps on the Meatless Mondays bandwagon, you know the campaign has legs. [Washington Post] The trend toward over-the-top fatty, carb-heavy foods may be fueled in part by chefs who smoke weed and the munchies marijuana induces. [NY Times] P.F. Chang' ... More >>

Asians Love Scotch; Brits Make Bubbly

​While overall sales of Scotch in Asia have dropped, exports of higher-end Scotch have grown steadily over the years. [Wall Street Journal] The Brits invented sparkling wine, although the French get all the glory for it. Now, British bubbly is on the rise due to better winemaking techniques a ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Pig Tuesdays and a Bourbon Dinner

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Pig Tuesdays Vareli Tuesdays, 5-10:30 p.m. This newish Mediterranean-inspired wine bar by George Zoitas of Westside Market is now hosting a weekly three-course ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Calçots Festival & Housing Works' First Tasting Event

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Annual Calçotada Festivals Savoy and Back Forty May 10 & 11 Forget ramps. In Catalonia, the seasonal onion that gets everyone excited is the calçot. Sample gr ... More >>

A Night With the Noble Rot

Keith WagstaffSake consumption fosters a certain bond.​This is not a normal wine tasting, suited older men smiling near dump buckets, quiet murmurs as people swirl their wine glasses around. It's the Saturday night after Tax Day and bespectacled Michael Daves is playing the hell out of his gui ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Tipsy Trivia Night; Organic Wine Dinner

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Hungover Happy Hour Trivia Night Housing Works Used Book Café April 12, 7 p.m. Bring your friends or make new ones at this trivia night for a great cause. Ther ... More >>

Botta di Vino Will Indeed Open in Red Hook

gcfairch/Flickr​Back in February, there was something of a kerfuffle in Red Hook over Dry Dock and Botta di Vino, two competing wine shops on Van Brunt Street; it later escalated when the owners of Botta di Vino were denied their SLA license following an objection based upon something on the s ... More >>

Rioja Winemakers Try to Make Medicine Out of Vino

katielips/flickr​Rioja winemakers may be promoting the fruits of their labor in New York this week, but back in Rioja, it's business as usual. And, in some cases, not so usual. Bodegas Riojanas, which just happens to be one of the oldest wineries in the region, is one of nine wineries particip ... More >>

What Do You Have To Do To Get a Bottle of Wine Around Here?

Why you still can't buy wine with your groceries in New York

Through the Drinking Glass: When It Comes to Glassware, Sometimes Bigger is Better

​Nearly everyone who has ever done a Riedel "glassware tasting" says the same thing: size and shape matter. The surface area of the glass combined with the circumference of the rim work together to point whatever liquid is inside to just the right place in your mouth. Riedel has made glasses ... More >>

Booze News--Beer Lao Coming to a Beer Fridge Near You; Invest In Wine Now, Say Experts

Now is the time to invest in wine, say experts, as prices of collectible vintages fell from 20 to 40 percent in the last four months of 2008. But collectors should act fast: prices are already on their way back up. [NY Times] A Thai brewery has enlisted former backpackers and other foreign fans of ... More >>

Drink This--Terras Gauda O'Rosal From Rias Baixas

We like to drink the sort of wines Alice Feiring is always on about: wines made naturally, fermented using spontaneous yeast and with as few additives and interference as possible. Terras Gauda's O'Rosal is one such wine, a crisp and aromatic albarino-based blend that also incorporates loureiro and ... More >>

What to 'B' to Alfanoose

Every week or so in 'What to B When You BYOB' we ask a local wine shop to recommend a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, we talk to Jamie Wolff of Chambers Street Wines about what to bring to nearby Middle Eastern eatery Alfanoose. We start by br ... More >>

Keeping It Kosher--Wine Recommendations for Passover Meal

It's that time of year again, when everyone likes to round up the best kosher wines to pair with traditional Seder fare. The Feed lists several Israeli Cabernet Sauvignons, including one from Bazelet Hagolan in the Golan Heights. Tasting Table offers up a couple less conventional options, such as ... More >>

Win Our Contest!

Don't forget to enter our music wine pairing contest, inspired by City Winery's Michael Dorf's idea of pairing wine to music.Send your serious, or your comical, music wine pairings to nybites@gmail.com. Our favorite pairing will win a blind tasting and a Vinofile Membership at City Winery.

Dirty Blonde: Jon Bakhshi's Eco-Friendly Greenhouse; A Pitchfork 500 Party

Soho gets a "green" nightclub, plus a swank winery that sticks mostly to red and white

Bottle Shock: Great Concept, Not Great Movie

Sietsema revisits Landmarc

NYC Wine and Food Fest: Tickets On Sale Monday!

Liquid Thanksgiving

Sampling Turkey and Stuffing Flavored Soda

Party On!

Cocktails are flowing from the moment you wake up

Sommelier Than Thou

Dessert Oasis: A New Downtown Bar Pairs Cocktails & Treats

Château 'New York Times'?

Times Co. Digital to court wine-swilling cultural elite

Soho Abcedarius