Eggs Florentinesque

Swapping the hollandaise sauce for a sour cream mixture and cooking the eggs in spinach makes for an easier, updated take on the classic.

A Sherry with Sea Legs

Manzanilla recalls brine and minerals.

The Expanding World of Pinot Noir

New Zealand gets in on the Pinot action.

Times Are Changing for Languedoc

Next-generation quality wines.

A very broad reply, I know, but I’ve found lately that Sicilian reds have a great mineraly taste, as do some vineyards near Vesuvius. Great stuff, IMHO, but don’t have a whole lot more to offer there. I guess look for...

wet springtimes. They murmur of the minerals in the soil: chalk, limestone, granite, the clay of the soil in which the vines grow, the hillsides that look year after year onto the habitations of the humans who live near them. I...

-Montrachet. The chardonnay-based wines from Puligny tend to show more of this character than the wines from Meursault to the north. The limestone soils give a fineness to the wines and the french believe this terroir imparts a...

, that since we weren’t spitting the notes degraded significantly after the first round. However! People were really engaged and talking about subtleties and comparing impressions ("I’d call it - soil?" "Maybe —...

the chalk/limestone soil that gives Champagne a specific nuance.

In S.C. you can most likely tell what kind of BBQ sauce you’ll be eating by looking at the soil you’re standing on. I know this may sound strange to folks from other states but it’s true. If you get BBQ in the...

residue from 30 years of constant fighting near these plots are clearly expressed in Chateau Musar’s wines. The age of the vines for the reds ranges from 25 to 60 years; the whites are 100 to 150 years old. The soils are...

a small plastic tub with a slotted inset to wash my Riedels in — that way I don’t risk banging them against anything hard when I’m soaking them. I use a microfiber cloth to “scrub” any soiled spots...

will tell, I suppose. In the Feury brothers’ own words, their menu draws on "the rich culinary traditions of Scandinavia, Alsace and the abundance of natural resources afforded by the East Coast’s fertile soils." Their...

, a 2005 Chateau Latour? Not only do you have different climates and soil in which the oak TREES are grown (creating differences in the “raw material” just like climate and terroir affect wine grapes), but you also...

've ever seen though. Chalk it up to a bad year all around lowering the quality across the board but this year Harry’s isn’t worth it for me. I’ll give them another go later this season though and hope...