Carlo Mondavi is enjoying a bit of lunch, before heading out for some appointments among clients who love the wine he and his father Tim Mondavi have made each year since 2005. It is called Continuum, for ample reasons, not the least of which is Carlo’s
Jimmy McEwan began his career at the illustrious Bowmore Distillery on the island of Islay, the southwesternmost part of Scotland, in 1963. He was an apprentice cooper. An aptitude for all things single malt whisky was one thing; a gift for communicating
He finds it impossible to contain his delight in pouring wines from his home region, the Lirac, near the right banks of the Rhone River. Rodoplhe de Pins made his first wines here in 1995, after spending years at Henschke in Australia, and at the illustrious
The son of two chemists, himself trained as a microbiologist, Joel Peterson may not be the most likely winemaker and brand marketing executive, but that’s how it all shook out. He founded, with then-partner Reed Foster, the Ravenswood winery, in
Jefferson Alvarez loves to travel. "Because then I can eat in a lot of different restaurants, try all the best places." He pauses, and smiles. "We get paid to cook, so you need to keep learning." Jefferson is executive chef at Fraîche,
So many things we might take for granted when we choose a drink to begin the evening, came from the apothecarial exigencies of the ecclesiastical orders in France, as in other parts of Europe. Herbs, roots, flowers, moss, almost any kind of vegetation