Posts Written OnMarch 15, 2006

"Welcome to LENNDEVOURS…my new food- and wine-related blog. Here you’ll find stories and news on my adventures in the culinary world, including restaurant reviews, wine reviews, commentary on food trends, tales of my fun serving as a recipe tester for various outlets and anything else that comes to mind. My goal is to eventually make money (maybe even a living) as a food writer…and this is just the first step toward making that goal happen." Two years ago today, the above was written as the first-ever post on LENNDEVOURS. That’s right folks, LENNDEVOURS turns two today. It’s hard to believe…

Recently, The Modern, the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) fine dining restaurant started pouring “M” as its house red. Every restaurant has a house red, so what’s the big deal? Well, The Modern boasts a wine list of over 900 wines, but instead of choosing a wine from France or California as its house red, it stayed much closer to home — the North Fork of Long Island. Richard Olsen-Harbich, winemaker at Raphael in Peconic, and Stephane Colling, wine director at The Modern, developed “M,” a custom blend of 95% merlot and 5% Malbec from the 2003 vintage. Colling, a…