What’s more fun than a cocktail competition? In New Orleans I stopped in at the Amarula Experiment Throwdown at Arnaud’s, to see the top 5 bartenders from around the country, winnowed down from 300 entrants. An interesting flavor combination won: fig with coffee. The cocktail was created by Emilio Tiburcio, from Fusion Bar from the [...]
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Came back from a presentation of Greek wines last night that left us so excited we all went home to check Orbitz for cheap flights to Athens. It’s not just that the wines were all well-crafted and made sense to our palates, it’s that the presenter was incredibly enthusiastic: Theresa Paopao, wine director of Oleana [...]
Say you meet one of the scions of a great wine-producing family that also distributes great Italian wines – and fine wines from many other areas of the world. I don’t know about you, but it’s kind of not fair for this scion to be thin, blond, have a husband and several adorable children AND [...]
