Who’s behind it: Celebrated chef John Fraser—best known for veggie-forward, Mediterranean-inspired dishes—has arrived in Boston with beef on his mind at the newly opened Vermilion Club. Fraser’s collection of Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winners spans the country, from Ardor in Los Angeles to North Fork Table and Inn on New York’s Long Island. Vermilion Club is the first Beantown restaurant …

Andrés Sánchez made wine in Italy before moving back to Chile and working with his winemaker wife Daniella Gillmore at her family’s winery in Maule’s Loncomilla Valley.  We visited them on our last visit to Chile, and Andrés showed us his experimental plots of 18 Italian varieties.  The results of those experiments are now found in several new wines under …

Chandon winemaker Pauline Lhote. ‘The first pick of 2024 for us at Chandon came from our home vineyard in Yountville, which is our warmest estate vineyard and we believe Napa’s northern limit for growing exceptional sparkling wine grapes,’ said winemaker Pauline Lhote. ‘We picked about 57 tons (52 metric tonnes) of Chardonnay on Wednesday from two different blocks in Yountville, …

Volcanic rocks in Tokaj. In partnership with Wines of Hungary Hungary may no longer have active volcanoes, but it does have a spectacular volcanic history, which continues to shape its wines to this day. The Pannonian Basin, nestled in the Carpathian Mountains, was an area of intense volcanic activity from shortly after the time of the dinosaurs to just a …

Vines in the island’s Timanfaya National Park Though the holiday island of Lanzarote seems an unlikely source for artisan wines made by hip and happening young winemakers, the island’s fast-developing wine scene is worthy of attention. Lanzarote has produced wine since the Spanish conquistadors colonised this Atlantic outpost in the 15th century. Scroll down for a selection of wines from… …

Clayton Fox is a sommelier at the Creole-contemporary restaurant Brennan’s in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, where he works under wine director and Advanced Sommelier Sam Bortugno. Clayton has twice had pieces selected for the jancisrobinson.com writing competition and can be found on Instagram @clayfoxsomm. He loves wines of soul and the people who make them. Has white …

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It has been said that 93% of California winegrape acreage is planted to only eight varieties. Those numbers may have shifted slightly since I last heard that statistic quoted, but they’re still not materially different. This fact represents several things simultaneously: the narrow-mindedness (or conservatism if you want to be kinder) of wine producers, the lack of curiosity possessed by …

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