Barbaresco: The Highs & Lows of 2016-2020
Italy: Piedmont, featured
, Oct 2020
Readers will find a wide range of wines from Barbaresco in the market ranging from majestic, soaring 2016s to the far more variable 2017s and the first 2018 releases. With its stunningly beautiful, hillside vineyards, Barbaresco remains a terrific destination for consumers looking for site-specific, Old World wines that won’t break the bank.
Vinous Table: St. John, Lodon, United Kingdom
Vinous Table, United Kingdom
, Oct 2020
Let’s put this on the record: St. John makes the best pies in the world. Don’t argue with me. Their pies are perfection. St. John is to pie what DRC is to Pinot Noir.
Vinous in London: Cappellano 1971-2012
Italy: Piedmont, featured
, Oct 2020
This retrospective of Cappellano back to 1971, held in London for a small group of Vinous readers, was a fabulous opportunity to revisit a number of wines during what was a very different time in the world. The Cappellano Barolos remain some of the most idiosyncratic and deeply personal wines in the world.
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Cellar Favorite: 2001 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin Grande Cuvée
cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites, France: Rhône & Beaujolais
, Oct 2020
Two thousand and one is, without a doubt, one of this generation’s greatest vintages for France’s southern Rhône valley, producing an abundance of rich but balanced and ageworthy wines that are now either in their prime or entering it.
Vinous Table: Endo At The Rotunda, London, United Kingdom
Vinous Table, United Kingdom
, Oct 2020
Endo At The Rotunda is the hottest ticket in town. Three friends already had reservations for the following fortnight when I visited in mid-February – word of mouth travels fast among epicures.
2016 Barolo, Part 2 & Late Releases
Italy: Piedmont, featured
, Oct 2020
As is our custom, we present our annual Barolo coverage in two installments. This article covers recently bottled 2016 Barolos and a number of other late releases that are in the market. Readers will find everything from benchmark producers to lesser-known growers who made some of their best wines ever.
Cellar Favorite: 1955 Maison Leroy La Romanée Grand Cru
France: Burgundy, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Oct 2020
Maison Leroy’s 1955 La Romanée Grand Cru is a historic wine for many reasons, and not just because of its age. It was the year Henri Leroy asked his daughter Lalou, then 23, to join the family business and help him select the wines for the maison’s portfolio. To this day, Lalou Bize-Leroy has an extraordinary memory of those early wines she tasted with her father.
Vinous Table: The Araki, London, United Kingdom
Vinous Table, United Kingdom
, Oct 2020
Don’t get me wrong: The Araki served a delicious meal and I must commend Lau for being chatty and personable when other sushi masters can either act imperious or ramble on so much that you feel you’re attending a lecture rather than dining out.
Twenty Years that Transformed the Argentine Wine Industry
Argentina, featured
, Oct 2020
Mendoza Malbec is synonymous with easygoing reliability. The enormous constituency of US consumers, which ranges from New Haven to Houston, Phoenix to Milwaukee, drank 82 million bottles of Argentine wine in 2019 and sees Malbec as something you can slip into like a comfortable pair of old slippers. For these fans, I have both good and bad news.
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Beyond Wine: Album Review of Pillow Queens – In Waiting
Beyond Wine
, Oct 2020
I doubt I will hear an album as good as In Waiting in what has been a strong year for new releases. I go as far to say that it constitutes one of the best debuts in recent years and it deserves a wide audience.