anniversary tasting!
Posted on May 13, 2008
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Our New York Store is two years old!
It’s been a tremendous honor to be received as well as we have in New York, and we’re looking forward to another great year.
To celebrate, we’re having an Anniversary Tasting:
Friday, May 16th
6 PM-9 PM
Moore Brothers Wine Company
33 E. 20th Street, NY, NY 10003
Come on by to say Hi, taste a bunch of hand-made, artisan, Old World, naturally-farmed wines, and meet Greg and me, and our New York staff.
Here’s a little video of Greg and I waxing philosophic while being filmed by Mike from Gotham Pictures:
sorry ’bout that…
Posted on May 12, 2008
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Ok, I know I’ve been strangely silent the past couple of weeks. Forgive my absence, I’ve been eyeball deep in working on a new point-of-sale software for our stores.
However, Susan’s actually been home, and we have had some great meals, and some wonderful wines
Working backwards, on Mother’s Day, we joined a bunch of my siblings at my mother’s Center city apartment. The three roast chickens from Whole Foods (barely enough for that cast of characters) was washed down with wonderful trocken and halbtrocken riesling from the Ratzenberger family, and some delicious bout d’zan from Hèléne Thibon.
Saturday, we scarfed down our last ‘06 Frülingsplatschen Kabinett from Werner and Frank Schönleber with a wonderful hunk of wild salmon - which was really good, but the eggplant/shiitake/arugula veggies I cooked was bangin’ (if I say so myself).
Osteria on Friday, was great too, and the have some of our wines on the list to boot! Starting off with the Sperino Rosé 2007 with the grilled octopus/grilled sepia/carpaccio was great, but even better was the roast pork and lamb entrées with Dolcetto from Anna Maria Abbona. We also ran into a bunch of customers there - clearly, this is one of Philly’s most happenin’ restaurants.
Now, Susan and I are gearing up for two weeks in Italy, visiting winegrowers, and enjoying some down time. I’ll be keeping up from Piemonte and Tuscany with updates, so be on the lookout. More stories later…oh, by the way, if you’re in NY on Friday the 16th, stop by for our anniversary tasting!
a mediterranean garden party
Posted on May 9, 2008
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On June 1st (there’s a rain-date, just in case), Claire and Toto Schiavone are opening their gorgeous, rambling home to raise money for SCAN, one of my personal “soapbox” organizations here in the Philly area.
Everyone who’s anyone in fine dining in Philadelphia will be there to ensure that Vivian Drayton can continue her work helping battered children (and families) break the cycle of violence.
For all the particulars, you can download the invitation (PDF format), or:
email Alice Dagit, the tireless fundraiser for organizations that can’t afford “development officers.”
We’ll be there, and hope you can make it too.
on the water…
Posted on May 8, 2008
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Champagne Bereche Reflet d’Antan
Only 60 bottles are on the water… expected to arrive in late May. At $100 per bottle on orders received and paid for before June 15* this very rare, great Champagne from an exceptional, well-located grower easily surpasses the quality of much more expensive cuvées from the famous négociant houses.
*Regular price $115 per bottle. No further case discounts apply in this offer.
The Champagne:
Assembled of equal parts of all three varieties (Meunier, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir), aged for several years in neutral barrels.
When the wine is bottled, only one third of each barrel is removed, which is immediately replaced with new wine. Like the solera system used for making sherry, the barrels are never emptied, which is why Reflet d’Antan is never a single “vintage” Champagne.
After the prise de mousse, the wine ages for three more years in bottles finished with natural corks held in place by large wire staples. Riddling and disgorgement à la volée are entirely by hand, and Raphaël tastes each bottle before topping up. Virtually all of the production goes to restaurants in France. These are the first bottles to be sold in the U.S.
Reflet d’Antan is deep golden, with apple, pear, grilled almond, and spices in the nose, together with a suggestion of the smell of the cool stone in an ancient cathedral. In the mouth the wine is rich and structured, with the flavors of ripe baked apples and stone echoing the nose.
The grower:
I have visited this estate and tasted with twenty-eight year-old Raphaël Bereche twice in the past eight months. He is an impressive representative of his generation: a talented grower of a very distinctive kind of wine that expresses a special terroir, who also has a clear understanding of the elements of quality in wine from other places.
Raphaël is gradually turning over the family estate in Craon de Ludes to biodynamic farming. He recognizes that it is a privilege to work in such great vineyards, and that his role is to provide the conditions that allow each vineyard to express its individuality. He only uses the natural ambient yeast, and there is no malolactic fermentation, so the wines retain freshness during the long elevage in wood and bottle.
We hope you take advantage of this special offer, and we thank you for your continued support.
‘nuther rave about temperature controlled wine
Posted on May 6, 2008
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A big thanks to Tom G for the heads-up on this article by noted British wine writer, Jancis Robinson.
Just a reminder (in case you didn’t know) - at Moore Brothers, whether the “shelf” price of a bottle is 12 bucks or a hundred, the wine was…
1: Produced by an actual person (no multi-national, publicly-traded corporations looking out for the next quarter’s stock price), in real vineyards farmed by that actual person.
2: Picked up at the winery in a refrigerated truck.
3: Transported, warehoused, and brought to our stores at 56 degrees (which are downright cold themselves, thank you).
The article above serves a reminder that what we do, and how we do it, is unique. To do otherwise would only prove incompetence, or something less flattering.
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