The Secret History Behind the Royal Love Affair with Champagne
From coronation galas to Louis XIV’s health cure and the spoils of war, Champagne bubbles up everywhere royalty roams.
From coronation galas to Louis XIV’s health cure and the spoils of war, Champagne bubbles up everywhere royalty roams.
The Presidents’ favorite foods tell us something about them—and ourselves…
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Washington, D.C., is defining a new mid-Atlantic cuisine…
The center of the emerging mid-Atlantic cuisine, Washington, D.C., is now on the map as a true dining destination. Since the turn of the century, the nation’s capital has become known not only as a United Nations of menus but also for developing its own distinctive food style—dubbed mid-Atlantic cuisine—which was acknowledged by Michelin last […]
Master sommelier Ian Cauble talks about bottles to drink, bottles to age, and bottles to avoid…
Château-Grillet is restored to its former glory thanks to its new owner and his team at Château Latour. Winemaker Alessandro Noli and I chat at the shaded end of a narrow lane that leads to a farmhouse compound below a natural amphitheater of stacked terraces planted with rows of gnarled grapevines. As Noli turns […]
It is a drizzly April morning at Château Margaux, one of the four premiers crus of Médoc, an enclave of largely Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot vineyards that carves a crescent northwest of Bordeaux city along the swales of the south bank of the Gironde River. The elegant, tree-lined estate sits on the edge of the […]
The return of the long-lost sibling is a dramatic device thoroughly exhausted by novelists from Dickens to Dumas; yet this well-worn formula provides a plot twist in the ongoing story of Black Bowmore that will excite the palates of discriminating whisky drinkers around the world. Four expressions of this rare, unusually dense and dark whisky […]
Though unsure of my exact altitude, I am certain—based on my surroundings and shortness of breath—that I am nowhere near sea level. Of course, my gasping also might owe to the precipitous drop directly in front of me, a sheer cliff that plunges into one of Earth’s deepest valleys. Snowcapped volcanic mountains rise above me, […]
Breaking the seal on a bottle of rare, extra-aged, single-malt whisky often summons the ghost of years past. Indeed, much of our pleasure in owning such a spirit derives from the recollections it awakens of the happenings in the world and our own lives in the year that it was made. In 1965, when the […]
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