Posts Written OnApril 2010

Guest Post: A Bottle’s 20-Year Journey Reflects the Wisdom of Patience, the Resilience of Friendship

Editor's note: We encourage guest posts and op-eds from any member of the New York wine community. We thought that Morten's story so strongly exemplified the power wine can have on our lives that it would make for a lovely guest post.  By Morten Hallgren, Owner and Winemaker, Ravine Wine Cellars Back in 1990 while a graduate student in Boston, I purchased two magnums of Chateau Palmer 1981 (AOC Margaux). One bottle I put in my wine cellar for future consumption. The other bottle I gave as a birthday present to my friend, Hernan, from Mexico City. Months later, a thief broke into…

Did He Say Malolactic? Spotlight Shines On Lamoreaux Landing’s Single-Vineyard Rieslings

By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor You have never smelled a riesling like this — because you have almost certainly never smelled a malolactic riesling. That's not marketing hyperbole. When you bury your nose in a glass of the  Lamoreaux Landing 2009 Round Rock Vineyard Riesling, you'll find an entirely new riesling aroma. For me, it was salted ballpark peanuts. For winemaker Paul Brock, it's… dairy. "A good kind of dairy," he enthusiastically told me on a recent visit. The list of riesling aromatic descriptors has just expanded. There is a reason for this wine's unique profile. Brock explained that…

Wine 101: The Things I’ve Learned About Wine

By Tom Mansell, Science Editor About a year ago, I started my own blog. About six months ago, I became the science editor for this publication. Several years ago, I was a scientist (I still am), but I knew next to nothing about wine culture. Luckily, I read a lot of magazines and websites so that I could learn all about things that didn't quite make sense to me from a scientific point of view. Wine needs to breathe. People say wine is a living thing, right? So living things have to breathe! Getting oxygen into wine actually softens the…