By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief This week, the tasting table post is a little shorter than usual, but I've got a big tasting planned for Super Bowl Sunday. In the meantime: Fox Run Vineyards 2007 Merlot ($20): Ripe blackberry and plum with vanilla and smokey (American?) oak. Even smokier on the palate with vanilla covering up what is a nice core of ripe, concentrated fruit. Blueberry pie peeks through with time in the glass. Medium body, ripe, medium-low tannins. Great fruit, with a little too much oak. (3 out of 5 | Recommended) Ravines Wine Cellars 2007 Chardonnay ($19): Toasty oak,…
Posts Written OnFebruary 05, 2010
New York Well-Represented at NYC Debut of the Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival
By Andy Freedman, New York City Correspondent Some of my favorite things in life begin with the letter 'B': there's basketball, and brunch, and, of course, bars. Last weekend my wife and I encountered 3 other Bs close to my heart when we attended the "Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival" at LA.VENUE in Manhattan with some 5,000 other beer and bourbon-drinking, bacon-crazed porkophiles. Having successfully traveled up and down the East Coast the past three years, BB&B finally made its Manhattan debut. What's there not to love about a walk-around event that features unlimited tastes of 60+ beers, 40+ bourbons and all the southern 'cue you can handle,…