Clos Rougeard Saumur-Champigny 2005: Best Wine This Year

I am fortunate to taste more than one man’s fair share of special wine every month.  Tonight, in the context of a business dinner at Momofuku Ssam Bar with a young, smart, scrappy, web marketing guru from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we experienced the most compelling red wine I have tasted this year, and most probably one [...]

Clos de la Roilette: Age Worthy Gamay from Fleurie

An Easter ham dinner set the legitimate stage for tasting one of several newly acquired bottles of Coudert’s 2008  Clos de la Roilette from Louis/Dressner Selections.  Tinged with intrigue and mystery, the vineyard was originally classified Moulin-a-Vent before Fleurie was declared into existence back in the ’20s, causing an angered owner to spite France’s wine market by [...]