Veni, Vino, Visa: A Peek Into The World of Wine Auctions
$232,692. On October 29, 2010, a lot of three bottles of 1869 Châteaux Lafite-Rothschild moved across the auction table at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. When the hammer fell, the total price for the lot was...
View ArticlePairing Up To Get Down At Hop Woo BBQ
Eddie Lin, of Deep End Dining and NPR’s “Good Food,” recently asked a group of food bloggers to join him for a special off-the-menu “romantic dinner” hosted by Chef Lupe Liang. Each dish—prepared with...
View ArticleSummer Sipping: Get Acquainted With Gavi
How quickly can you name four white wines from France? If you’re reading Palate Press, you’ll probably have no trouble with that one: Chablis, Sancerre, Condrieu, Sauternes … the list goes on. So now...
View ArticleHow Sweet It Is: Discovering the World’s Most Famous Dessert Wines
Human beings, as a whole, love sweet. Studies have shown that newborn babies, when given a choice, prefer sugar water over milk. We begin life with a sweet tooth, even while that bud is still locked...
View ArticleGlimpses From A Lost Colony
North Carolina’s first commercial winery was established in 1835 by Mr. Sidney Weller, in the community of Brinkleyville, in Halifax County. But that wasn’t the beginning. The post Glimpses From A Lost...
View ArticleA History of Washington Wine
From a space buried under 2500 feet of obvious winter, the earth suddenly spasms as an opening is ripped through a giant glacial barricade three miles long and ten miles across. Thunder pounds across...
View ArticleThe Race of the Rooster: How Chianti earned its famous emblem
According to legend, in the early 1200s, it was decided how the borders of Chianti would be settled. Two horseman should set off at cock’s crow on a designated day, and the boundary would be set where...
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