Nicolas Boissonneau with a customerI stopped by 801 Chophouse early yesterday to see if the World Wine Tour was really serving more than 300 wines. It was. The tour opened to the public at 5:30 p.m. but from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. was an industry-only event that resembled a street market, not a hoity-toity wine tasting. In each and every corner of the massive steakhouse was the cacophony of deals being done and great wine being poured.I talked with wine producers from Argentina to New Zealand -- as we
JJ's Restaurant on the west edge of the Plaza (910 West 48th Street) hosts a wine dinner tonight with Adam Sbragia, whose family owns vineyards all over California. His family's wine is called appropriately Sbragia Family Vineyards. The dinner will take place in JJ's Saber Room starting at 7 p.m.The five-course menu is heavy on game and seafood. The first course is grilled scallops with salsa martini served with a sauvignon blanc, and the second course is lobster panna cotta with a chardonnay. S
The muddy water of the mighty Mississippi River doesn't immediately conjure up images of wine. But vineyards in four Midwestern states are trying to get their land designated as an official appellation area called the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Appellation law works so that wineries from a certain geographic region can distinguish themselves from wines of another region. Napa, for example, has more than 300 wineries. Those wineries are technically the only ones allowed to use the words "Nap
