Wine Media Guild of New York

From L to R – Jonathan Levine, Theresa Evans, Julia Alunan, Joseph Lopez, Prof. Roger Dagorn, M.S.

By Jonathan Levine

The Guild as a whole (I am the scholarship committee chair) decided to use some funds to give back to the NYC community. We wanted to encourage young people to pursue an interest in oeonology and an oenological education.

We selected City Tech since it is part of City University of NY which has a long standing commitment to NYC. City Tech (officially NYC College of Technology) has had a hospitality program for about 60 years. All hospitality majors must take the basic wine course and the college offers three additional wine courses. (more…)

Video is now available from the annual dinner! Unfortunately it is on Facebook, not youtube, thus we are not able to embed it. But here are the links:

Peter Sichel speaking about Andre Simon

Bartholomew Broadbent speaking about Michael Broadbent

Dan Berger acceptance speech

The annual dinner at the Four Seasons restaurant was a big success! Over 100 people attended to witness and celebrate the latest class of inductees into the Wine Writers’ Hall of Fame. Dan Berger attended and Bartholomew Broadbent accepted on behalf of his father Michael. Karen MacNeil was also inducted as was André Simon with a posthumous award.

Several members have written about the event. See Dr. Vino’s wine blog, Cynthia Sin-Yi Sheng, and Brian Freedman thus far!

For now, here are some photos:

The theme of May’s lunch was Taurasi, Campania’s red DOCG wine, which is usually 100% from the Aglianico grape.

The first member in with a summary is Tom Maresca. Is Aglianico actually from Greek origin as is widely understood? Click through to find out that and more…

Also, the tickets are nearly sold out for the annual dinner at the Four Seasons restaurant…see you there on June 7?

Pietro Ratti led the Wine Media Guild lunch discussion and tasting of Barolo 2005s.

Charles Scicolone has a write up.

And so does new member Karen Ulrich.

In a packed room, the WMG members and their guests enjoyed a lineup of 2000-2007 vintages from two adjacent Bordeaux estates: Domaine du Chevalier and Chateau Haut-Bailly. (Three white vintages from Chevalier were included with the 2001 drawing much praise in the first two posts below.) Winemakers from both estates were on hand to discuss the wines.

For member write ups of the event please surf over to their sites:

Tom Maresca, “good gravel!”
Robert Simonson, “Chateau Haut-Bailly and Domaine de Chevalier Meet in New York”
Charles Scicolone, “Tasting Domaine de Chevalier and Chateau Haut-Bailly”
Peter Hellman mentions the tasting in a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal.
As others appear, we will link to them here. UPDATE: and John Foy on NJ.com
UPDATE: and Louisa Hargrave on 27east.com

Thanks to member Mark Golodetz for organizing this lunch!

So far, only one member has a roundup of the recent Champagne lunch. And it’s John Mariani. Surf on over to Bloomberg for his notes.

If other members have other postings or stories, send them in and we will link them up!

UPDATE: Charles Sciccolone also has a roundup of the lunch

UPDATE: Louisa Hargrave also has a post based on the lunch, with a Valentine’s twist.

For the November lunch, members of the Guild were delighted to welcome Lidia and Joe Bastianich. We have held our monthly lunches at Felidia for many years now.

A few members have posted about the event on their blogs: Charles Scicolone, Robert Simonson, and Marisa D’Vari. Check them out!

Next month’s lunch: Champagne with Ed McCarthy.

Tom Maresca, a WMG member since “time immemorial” (by his own account), has a posting on his brand new blog about the St. Emilion lunch meeting. Check out his take on the event.

If other write-ups are forthcoming, we will post them here!

UPDATE: Member John Mariani writes up the event in his column at Bloomberg.com. It’s a contrast to Tom’s so check them both out!

And stay tuned for next month’s lunch meeting: Bastianich wines with Joe and Lidia.

The schedule for the coming year of Wine Media Guild lunches is taking shape! Check out the lineup:

October 7- St. Emilion – two dozen wines; speaker Olivier Nouoet, President Adams French Vineyards
November 4 – The wines of the Bastianich Family. Speaker will be Joe Bastianich and Lidia will attend. The winemaker from Friuli may also be present.
December 2 – Vintage Champagne with Ed McCarthy.
January 22 – Bordeaux. Another amazing paired Bordeaux tasting (remember the Two Pichons?) organized by Mark Golodetz. Domaine de Chevalier and Ch. Haut Bailly will present veritcals of their wines discussed by principals from the wineries. [Note date is a Friday.]
February 3 – Australian Cabernet Sauvignon. The US leaders of Wine Australia are putting together a tasting of Cabernet Sauvignon from around Australia, including older vintages. Two or three wine makers will be invited to speak.
March 3 – Barolo with Pietro Ratti. Pietro will come to speak to us. He will arrange for wines from each of the main Barolo communes.
April 7 and May 5 tastings are not final as yet.