Author: Moris Senegor

Last night I said farewell to an old friend. It was the bottle you see in the photo to the left, a 1995 Chateauneuf du Pape, Vieux Telegraph. I brought it to my Friday night wine group where it was uniformly well received.1995...

More than a decade ago I found myself in a then swank new restaurant in San Francisco for a business dinner. The occasion was a convention, and I was to meet a VIP CEO of a surgical implant company, who was hosting me, a valued...

The San Francisco Chronicle just published a long article about efforts to break up the Sonoma Coast Appellation into regions that make more sense. The area designated as “Sonoma Coast” can be seen on the larger...

Marital disputes are fortunately rare in my household. A recent one arose over an unusual subject: coq au vin.My wife Julie loves this dish and orders it whenever it’s listed in a menu. Recently she decided to make it at...

We recently had lunch in a popular spot at Sonoma Square called “The Girl and The Fig”. It is a homey looking place set within three rooms of a converted house. One has a magnificently ornate bar with dining tables;...

For most Bordeaux drinkers sampling old ones, really old, is a rare and sporadic experience. Some who are old enough to have aged them in their own cellars can do this with ease. The few wealthy enough not to mind 3 or 4, even 5...

Those of you who follow my wine postings, by now know well that I have a love and hate relationship with New World Chardonnay. On the one hand I am sick and tired of it, and have been so for over a decade, on the other I...

It appears that there is a sequel to my recent blog of 2/23/11 entitled “Wine Evolution on Fast Forward”, and more lessons to be learned. Recall that I was struck by the speed with which domestic pinot noir evolved...