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Pair Chocolate Delights with Vibrant Wines and Fruity Lambic Beer

Ask any restaurateur about Valentine’s Day bookings, and their eyes roll. The crush of reservations pushes kitchens and servers to the brink. Overlapping bookings can create chaos through the evening. Menu selections typically become depleted. Customers and restaurant staff often find their patience sorely tested. This year, why not defer going out for a romantic […]

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Ruppert-Leroy: Sensational, Vibrant Wines With Beautiful Bubbles!

Spouses Bénédicte Ruppert-Leroy and Emmanuel Leroy are dedicated biodynamic farmers and winegrowers, first and foremost. But since they live in the village of Essoyes in Champagne’s southernmost region of the Côte des Bar, their delicious wines happen to have tantalizing bubbles. Read Ruppert-Leroy’s full, fascinating story in my recent article in Glass of Bubbly. The

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The late Irv Kotovsky’s Wines and Spirits Auction Extraordinaire at Christie’s

It was a pleasure and honor to write this article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the late Irv Kotovsky and the auction at Christie’s of Irv’s spectacular wine cellars in both Pittsburgh and Paris. Thanks to Irv’s spouse, Cher Lynn Kotovsky for sharing your terrific memories about enjoying marvelous wines and food with Irv in

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Ruppert-Leroy’s Beautiful Sparkling Wines Spotlight Southern Champagne

The quiet French village of Essoyes seems an unlikely place to discover some of Champagne’s most intriguing and delicious wines. Afterall Essoyes is over 100 miles from the epicenter of Reims, Champagne’s unofficial capital. And with just over 700 inhabitants, Essoyes is best known as Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s summer home. He painted memorable scenes on

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Talented Duo Delivers Delicious, Affordable Red Hautes-Côtes de Nuits

In the village of Vosnse-Romanée, Bourgogne’s most famous vineyards of La Tâche and Romanée-Conti produce red wines with prices in the thousands, if not, tens of thousands of dollars per bottle. Few drinkers can afford to taste these wines. Fortunately, other delicious and affordable options readily exist literally from just nearby. Go west up a

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