Bush-trained vines during the fog in the Palisades Vineyard Ten years. Ten years to get a vine just right, according to the heritage way of growing premium wine grapes. Old Petite Sirah vine First, the rootstock goes into the soil. Two years later, the vine is grafted onto the rootstock….

Alain Ducasse has opened his latest restaurant in Italy; plus, Ruth’s Chris opens new steak houses in Florida and Minnesota, and Marc Forgione moves his namesake NYC restaurant Who’s behind it: Il Ristorante Alain Ducasse is a new endeavor from celebrated French-born, Monégasque chef Alain Ducasse, who owns Wine Spectator…

“`html The globe’s best wines for $20 or less were recently crowned at the Decanter World Wine Awards. Drinkers who love a wine bargain will want to pay attention to the Decanter World Wine Awards “Value” category. Newly expanded this year to include 20 instead of 10 wines, the category…

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Most of us think of wine pairings and automatically start picturing juicy steaks next to glistening glasses of red wine. Or, perhaps we’re conjuring up images of wine and cheese spreads on an hors-d’oeuvres table. However, sometimes you want something…

SUMMERTIME, with all of its dappled delights, is in full flower. We can see that in the powerful sunlight and the lovely later nights, for starters, as well as the variety of produce on the market shelves. Another sign of the dazzle-iest season may be found in the sorts of…

As restaurants are once again flourishing, more than 3,700 dining spots earned honors for excellence in their wine programs. Restaurants are not only thriving, but reinvesting in themselves and their future, not just in the obvious ways, but also by deepening their relationships with winemakers near and far. And those…

Nearly two years after detailing plans for a location in Huntersville’s Birkdale Village, Foxcroft Wine Co. is finally closing in on its debut there. The restaurant and retail shop is set to open June 26 at 16915 Birkdale Commons Parkway, according to Foxcroft’s website. ALSO READ: East Charlotte bar fined…

Ask most wine aficionados about wines from France or Italy, and they’ll wax poetic about the differences between the two. Ask about Japanese wine, and you’ll likely get a blank look, or even, “Do you mean sake?” Japan has taken on many Western drinking traditions. Beer is Japan’s go-to drink;…

At last weekend’s North Coast Wine & Food Challenge in Santa Rosa, Allison Weakley of Burlingame plotted her path with a map of the 102 wineries pouring. She was determined to try a range of wines in the double digits. The wines poured at the festival earned a gold medal…

The Burgess Cellars winemaker tells us about her journey from the NFL to Chile’s Clos Apalta to Michel Rolland’s team in France to California’s Napa Valley, and the “crazy ideas” she’s implementing at Burgess A few days after winemaker Meghan Zobeck started her new job at Napa’s historic Burgess Cellars,…