Posts from — May 2008

What if instead of reading one of the influential media outlets, such as “The Wine Spectator,” or Robert Parker in the “Wine Advocate,” you opted to invite 507 of your closest friends to sample over 6,000 glasses of wine blindfolded. Wouldn’t the traditionally more expensive wines favored by Robert Parker logically still come out ahead?
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Jamie and I had tickets to Fuerza Bruta this past Friday in Union Square, and wanted to take advantage of one of the many fine dining experiences in the area. Still riding high from our Babbo experience, we were interested in trying another restaurant within the Mario Batali pantheon. We settled on Casa Mono, the Spanish tapas restaurant styled to bring authentic Barcelona Boqueria food to the U.S..
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I have to tip my hat this afternoon to my compatriot Alfonso Cevola, who has written a long, rambling post on the inevitable changes taking place in the Italian wine making industry now that big money has gotten involved in the process. This piece just absolutely blew me away…
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