I go bicycling in Burgundy, sit down with foie gras and a glass of wine at lunch, and say to myself, "George, remember, you're working".
Wine retailers' fall catalogs show some meaningful price changes; higher-priced Bordeaux and Burgundies are down, as is almost all high-end Champagne.
In Father Ryan's tiny office, shaded by a burgundy roll-down shade held up with a paper clip, he reflected recently on his nearly 70 years in service.
There's Laurent Ponsot, the cashmere-clad, third-generation doyen of Domaine Ponsot, a Gallic Sherlock Holmes determined to cleanse the "dirt on the integrity of Burgundy" by tracking down the source of Acker's counterfeit bottles.
ON our trip through Burgundy and down the Rhone Valley last summer, we kept running into Guy Roulot's marc.
She drives a yellow 1977 Trans Am with a burgundy stripe down the center and a 1973 Mercedes 450 SL, and lives in a spare, Japanese-style cabin in Laurel Canyon.
A smile goes a lot further in fostering trust a key component in the sommelier-guest relationship, he says, especially when leading die-hard burgundy lovers down a slightly different path.
I have Bordeaux and Burgundies to lay down for 20 years and other wines to lay down for five years".
He ordered the best coffee and crate after crate of wine (though, odd reminder of another time, he drank his Burgundies and laid down his Beaujolais).
Julien Sunier is an ambitious, intense young man who makes delicious wine practically in the open air on a damp hillside, using burgundy hand-me-down barrels.
