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Album of the Month: David Bowie - Blackstar

Neal Martin's January 2016 review of David Bowie's last album....

Neal Martin • 01 Jan 2016

Interview with Virginia Willcock, Vasse Felix

Among Margaret River's oldest properties, established by Tom Cullity in 1967, Vasse Felix makes outstanding Cabernet Sauvignon based reds and has emerged in recent years as one of Australia's finest...

Lisa Perrotti-Brown • 01 Jan 2016

australia travel wine

Robert Parker's Guide to the Best of 2015

As you know, Robert Parker covers the wines of Northern California and is our Wine-Critic-at-Large. Here is his Guide to the Best of 2015!...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Jan 2016

travel restaurant wine

South African Winemaker's Teenage Anthems

"If music be the food of love, play on," observed Bill Shakespeare. Obviously, this was before Celine Dion, so I can forgive him (just). Personally, I find a more intimate...

Neal Martin • 08 Dec 2015

wine album music

Magdalena Restaurant - The Ivy Hotel

By and large, the California Chardonnays performed overall better than the white Burgundies, although I was super-impressed with Louis Latour's 2009 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru White Burgundy, with loads of quince,...

Robert M. Parker, Jr. • 01 Nov 2015

wine foodie restaurant

Jade Palace, Singapore

Located in the basement of a shopping mall, this small Cantonese restaurant was recommended to me by my colleague, Lisa Perrotti-Brown. I liked it so much, I went back for...

Jeb Dunnuck • 01 Oct 2015

restaurant wine

RN74, Seattle

This is one of my favorite restaurants in Seattle and I continue to eat here once or twice a year. It has an upscale, yet casual feel and the food...

Jeb Dunnuck • 01 Mar 2015

wine restaurant

Guigal

One of the reference point estates for top quality wines in the world today, the family-run Guigal operation was created in 1946 by Etienne Guigal. Today, Etienne's son, Marcel, and...

Jeb Dunnuck • 01 Dec 2014

wine rhone syrah

Wine In the Time of War

Despite Edwin Starr's sage advice that war is good for absolutely nothing, mankind's wilful ignorance and boundless stupidity means that we still cannot resist a 'good old' war. In 2014...

Neal Martin • 15 Sep 2014

wine winelover

Great Wall, Great KFC & Great Pomerol

Have you ever been shot at point blank range by an opera singer? It happened to me in Beijing. Sitting within a few feet of one of China's most celebrated...

Neal Martin • 06 May 2014

china wine opera

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