Wine Reviews
FBI, Scotland Yard, Billionaire Pore Over Suspect Wine: Review It was the most expensive bottle of
wine ever sold, a 1787 Chateau Lafite supposedly owned by Thomas
Jefferson. After heated bidding, the Forbes family paid $156,000
for it at a 1985 Christie's auction in London. But was the wine
for real?
Petite Sirah (Not Syrah!) Gets Fan Club as Growers Get Serious You know a wine has an image problem
when it needs its own advocacy group. Which is why there is the
California-based PS I Love You Inc. The PS stands for petite
sirah, a grape whose principal problem is that wine lovers too
often confuse it with syrah, now increasingly called shiraz.
Bankers, Stars Battle Over Wines as Hong Kong Restarts Auctions Jason Boyer, managing director at
Cantor Fitzgerald (Hong Kong) Capital Markets Ltd., pulled a matt-
black American Express Co. card from his wallet and clinked it
against a wine glass.
Chateau Petrus Stars at 1st Hong Kong Wine Auction in a Decade Hong Kong's first wine auction in a
decade raised about HK$11.5 million ($1.5 million), as bidders
battled in a WWII bunker for rare Burgundies and Bordeaux.
Saber-Wielding Collector Sells Rare Cristal, Krug in Hot Market Slim, curly-haired Robert A.
Rosania, champagne collector extraordinaire, is sharing a bottle
of rare 1979 Salon Le Mesnil with me at New York's Cru
restaurant.
St. Regis's Les Saveurs Trumps Work With Wine: Singapore Dining St. Regis Singapore is the city's
first new hotel from a top business chain in 11 years, yet the
flagship restaurant, Les Saveurs, is much more a place to discuss
wine than work.
Tribeca Bar Guide: Where to Go During De Niro's Film Festival Robert De Niro's Ago at the new
Greenwich Hotel (which he also co-owns) is fully booked at peak
dinner hours for the duration of the Tribeca Film Festival in
lower Manhattan (through May 4).
Bonhams Holds 1st Hong Kong Wine Auction for a Decade in Bunker An underground bunker used by the
British army to store explosives in Hong Kong's 1941 fight
against invading Japanese troops will witness another battle
tomorrow: for fine Burgundies and first-growth Bordeaux.
Texas Wineries Grow Up, Beat the Heat, Seek Their Own Styles Before you start scratching your
head over the idea that Texas even makes wine, consider these
stats: Texas is the fifth-largest grape- and wine-producing state
in the U.S., with more than 220 family-owned vineyards in a $1
billion industry. It has eight appellations of origin, including
the Hill Country Viticultural Area spread over 15,000 square
miles in 22 counties -- the second-largest in the U.S. The state
produces more than 2 million gallons of wine annually.
Beaune's Appeal Includes Cachottiers, Lo-Lo, Wines: Elin McCoy ``Call me Lo-Lo,'' says our white-
aproned, long-haired waiter, who also happens to be the chef at
Caves Madeleine, an all-in-one wine shop, wine bar and bistro in
Beaune, my favorite wine town in France.