THE U.S. SPARKLING WINE MARKET CONTINUES TO SEE overall growth, adding roughly 460,000 cases to its total last year, according to Impact Databank. Consumer interest is widespread, with Prosecco leading the import category and domestic sparkling wines priced above $15 a 750-ml. showing the strongest growth by far on the domestic side. Even amid the pandemic, sparkling wines have far outpaced table wines in growth terms, consistently registering strong double- digit gains in the off-premise market. Prosecco continues to boom as sparkling wine’s image evolves. “What I’ve seen happen in this business over the last 25 years is that the...

Dwight Casimere | 7/22/2020, 11:49 a.m. Tucked away in the south of Italy's famed Tuscany is one of its true treasures, the Maremma wine region. Far less well known than its famous neighbor, Chianti Classico, Maremma only gets a fraction of the notoriety. Yet, it is no less important. For those in the know, Maremma is for serious wine lovers. Those who gain access to the scant number of tasting rooms and cellars that are open to the public are doubly blessed, for they not only have an opportunity to drink in the rustic beauty of the land, but to...

This week's roundup of the hottest dining news. Sarah Murrell Simplicity cold-pressed juices has teamed up with the Hotel Tango folks on three new bottled cocktails made from fresh juice and locally made spirits. The niche cocktails don’t have any added sugars, which basically makes them health food. You can pick up the ready-to-drink cocktails—Whiskey Smash, Paloma Perfection, and Pink Vodka—at the Carmel Market District, and be ready for cocktail hour with the twist of a cap and a glass of ice. Greiner’s owner Lisa Moyer has purchased the rights to Der Pretzel Wagon food truck. Cunningham Restaurant Group has...

From food pairing wines to celebratory bubbles, all sorts of bottles to bring home Posted by CH Editors Posted on 20 July 2020 Read — Food + Drink Scroll down to see more content For the curious wine drinker—those of us who ask for a different bottle every time an order is placed—the unending list of regions, releases, vintages, distributors and prices can blanket the brain and inhibit decision-making. That’s part of wine’s allure, though: the magnitude of knowledge surrounding each varietal and how it corresponds to flavors. We’ve fallen for so many delectable wines recently—including all of those by...

by L.M. Archer | FWS, Bourgogne + Champagne ML <img data-attachment-id="821" data-permalink="https://lmarcher.com/2018/11/25/the-hedonistic-taster-willamette-valley-holiday-wines/cropped-lmagrey/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/lmarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-lmagrey.png?fit=216%2C216&ssl=1" data-orig-size="216,216" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="LM Archer Tastevin" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/lmarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-lmagrey.png?fit=216%2C216&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/lmarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-lmagrey.png?fit=216%2C216&ssl=1" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-821" src="https://i0.wp.com/lmarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-lmagrey.png?resize=216%2C216&ssl=1" alt="LM Archer Tastevin" width="216" height="216" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/lmarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-lmagrey.png?w=216&ssl=1 216w, https://i0.wp.com/lmarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-lmagrey.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/lmarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-lmagrey.png?resize=50%2C50&ssl=1 50w, https://i0.wp.com/lmarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-lmagrey.png?resize=160%2C160&ssl=1 160w" sizes="(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px" data-recalc-dims="1" /> Wine should not be regarded simply as a beverage, but as an art of living, a pleasure.” – Henri Jayer The Hedonistic Taster provides an intimate format to share industry trade samples with you.   Enjoy this affordable sampling of food-friendly French wines that pair well with any ‘socially-distanced’ situation this summer. Disclaimer: No compensation...

BY ANTONIO GALLONI | JULY 09, 2020 The annual presentation of new releases from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in early March was the last tasting I attended before lockdown. Initially I thought I would publish this article as a bookend, when things returned to normal. Back then, I could have never imagined where we would be today. After reading Neal Martin’s article Complex, Not Complicated: 2017 DRC in Bottle chronicling the London edition, I decided to shamelessly rip off his format. So, here you have my version… The complete lineup of 2017s from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. 6:00am: It’s Thursday...

Register for the online event today, and pre-order all the wines we'll be drinking at the tastings. By Ray Isle July 06, 2020   There’s one really great thing about Food & Wine's digital Classic At Home wine tastings: instead of shelling out cash for a plane ticket to Colorado, hotel rooms, an actual festival ticket, and all that, they’re free! And not that Aspen isn’t a nice place to be in the summer, but tasting wine in your own home has its benefits, too. This year's virtual Classic is on July 23, and we decided to do two lively versions of the more...

From the Aug 31, 2020, issue Two excellent vintages await lovers of California Chardonnay, with the highest-rated bottlings reflecting the stylistic evolution that has driven winemaking over the past decade. The move to produce more structured, elegant and pure-tasting wines has been particularly evident in the state's leading cellars, and the two vintages currently on tap, 2017 and 2018, showcase this new style at its best. In 2017, California fully emerged from a multiyear drought with a deluge of rain in the winter months. A pivotal event was the intense Labor Day heat wave that cut yields slightly and sped...

By: Alex Schrecengost, AVP Wilson Daniels   Sharing food and wine is, at its heart, a celebration of culture and history. As an industry, we believe that we can make a lasting difference by focusing on the people we work with and how we choose to respond to national and international crises like the protests in support of racial injustice awareness, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Black employees in the restaurant industry have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic during a time of national reckoning, and we stand unequivocally by their side in the fight for permanent, lasting reform during...

BY JILL BARTH The cellar at Baker-Bird Winery in Augusta, Kentucky/Photo by Bronze Photography From coast to coast, the United States has a rich agrarian history, and wine plays a central role in that. Some Native communities produced fruit wines and ciders, and European colonists and missionaries planted vineyards for economic and religious purposes. Commercial cultivation of the vine magnified this scope, as vineyards and wineries popped up eventually in all 50 states. Of course, the wine industry has changed wildly these days, but many wineries maintain and conserve elements of historical value. Here are nine U.S. wineries that valiantly preserve...