Wine Tasting and Dinner Celebration! On Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 7 PM. Le Chene will be featuring the following wines: Domain Barat Chablis Premier Cru Les Fourneaux 2002 to start, paired with Baby Mixed Salad with Apples, Olive Oil and Meyer Lemon plus Coquilles St. Jacque with Leek au Gratin. Followed by Lous Max…
Well wine fans, after over 4 months of work, the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition has officially come to a close. The final portion of the annual competition ended with the Public Tasting event held at Fort Mason in San Francisco, California, on the 18th of February. It was a beautiful day, great weather…
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So The Wine Enthusiast Magazine comes out with it’s annual Top 100 Picks for 2011… and wouldn’t you know it – A few more missed opportunities from “Chef Mike” for Seek, Find, Buy, and Enjoy Wines that now may or MAY NOT be able to be obtained! Among a the 100 here are few that…
A taste of a few remarkable wines that ended my 2011: 2000 Chateau Destieux Bordeaux Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 13% alcohol Appearance – The darkest of garnets, to a black glassy edge, opaque. Aroma – From a foot away, while pouring, I got a blast of juicy fruit. Upon closer nosing came, ripe berries and stems,…
Monday, December 05, 2011, die hard GOTN members put on their winter clothing and went to Valencia Wine Company to taste and learn about the various differences and nuances of Malbec wines. This cold winter night was a perfect venue for the full bodied characteristics of this varietal and good friends. As Christmas was at…
For this Grape of the Night gathering the selected varietal was Meritage or Claret. Since we sampled French Bordeaux wines at our October GOTN, I thought that it would be interesting to venture to the New World as a comparison. It was interesting there were no labels that had the name Claret all were Meritage….
Winemakers in Happy Canyon (Santa Ynez Valley) celebrate a stellar harvest and hope to attract consumer and industry attention during a tough year for better-known AVAs While heavy rains late in the harvest season have raised eyebrows and concern about the outcome of the 2011 vintage in some of Northern California’s wine regions, the Golden…
ROLL YOUR LEG OVER – CHEF MIKE IS “BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN!” by Michael Fraschilla (A Postscript from Barbara Ringuette can be read in Part 2 on 12/1/11) As October 1 drew close I felt my nerves getting the best of me…. It had been years since I did the role of “Chef Mike”…….