The Connoisseur

Three wines priced just right for the summer Our friends at Wine.com are back with another set of wines perfectly priced for summer fun. These wines offer great value and better drinking, particularly when combined with...

On Sunday, July 26, the Meadowlark Service League will hold its 22nd annual ‘A Taste of Camarillo’ Wine and Food Festival from 1 to 4 p.m. on the lawns of the historic Adolfo Camarillo Ranch House at 201 Camarillo...

Always a good question, Eric. When I was first in the throws of burgeoning wine passion I would try to perfect meals and wine combinations with bottles that would be worth thousands of dollars now and would light up the...

About this time in 1999, I took an unknowing, impassioned first step into what has now turned into a ten-year love affair with wine.  Today I find myself back in my old stomping grounds of New York City pouring wines at...

While open that bottle night is still on we've had to change venues. Saturday February 28th, Our new venue is the North Square Restaurant on Washington Square Park with a new price - $80 We will have the private Deco...

Well we did it. It's official, Open that Bottle Night will celebrate its tenth anniversary in Style as Astor Center and Snooth work together with Wilson Daniels to deliver an evening filled with fine wine, friends, a...

I enjoyed The Accidental Connoisseur - it's basically a book version of the themes of Mondovino and it's well written. http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Connoisseur-Irreverent-Journey-Through/dp/0865476330

I have prematurely become an old man in at least one respect, I yell at mass media devices when I am angry or upset. I haven't crossed the line to where I am screaming at horror movie characters to not enter rooms that are...

Jay McInernery, yes. Also "The Accidental Connoisseur" book by Lawrence Osborne, who writes now for men's (gasp) Vogue. I've also been browsing through Ruth Reichel's edited vertion of "history in a Glass: Sixty Years of...