Finger Lakes wine tour: Seneca Lake road trip
The best wineries to visit on a tour of Finger Lakes...
Howard G Goldberg is a wine writer and critic based in New York City. He made his name writing about wine for The New York Times, where he worked for 34 years. He has written various books on food and wine, including Prime: The Complete Prime Rib Book and All About Wine Cellars. He compiled The New York Times Book of Wine – a collection of the publication’s best wine articles.
The best wineries to visit on a tour of Finger Lakes...
Bucolic vistas, activities aplenty and arguably the best Riesling outside Europe are the drawcards of this exciting region.
A US wine appraiser offers tips on wine shipping, spotting counterfeits and en primeur
Auction News by Howard G Goldberg, from Decanter Magazine July 2012 issue, as Mel Brooks’ famous creation looks back on 2,000 years of wine.
Daniel Rogov, Israel's most influential wine and food critic, died on Wednesday in Tel Aviv.
New auction houses in Chicago and San Francisco are a boon for wine buyers
Morrell & Company sold all 58 lots from Bernard L Madoff's wine and spirits holdings for US$41,530 on Wednesday.
Morrell & Company will auction 58 lots of wines and spirits owned by the convicted fraudster Bernard L Madoff on 18 May.
Burgundy bacchanal
Abdallah H Simon - ‘Ab’ to the Bordeaux and American wine trade - died on 1 January aged 88.
New York became Hong Kong on 12 November when five different Asian bidders snapped up nine of Sotheby’s top 10 grossing lots at an auction featuring Bordeaux.
Howard G Goldberg looks at an auction catalogue that caters to its audience
Bonhams is entering New York City’s hotly competitive wine auction arena.
Sotheby’s has gone into the retail wine business in New York City.
Stanley A (Bill) Wagner, a major pioneering Finger Lakes vintner, died on 26 June aged 83.
America’s wine producers and wholesalers have begun high-stakes political warfare.
Cornell University is conducting a detailed study into Finger Lakes Riesling.
Meet my imaginary friend Joe Sixpack. In 2007 he moved up from booze to wine. He plunged into buying at auction. Now he wants to sell there. But Sixpack knows, unhappily, from other investments, that past performance is no guarantee of future results
An extra dose of glamour shone in two auctions this month.
The new decade’s early auctions have begun with a bang, with Acker Merrall & Condit’s first Hong Kong auction of 2010 grossing US$7.6m in back-to-back sales on 29 and 30 January.
In a decision that could go all the way to the Supreme Court, a US appeals court has ruled that Texas can continue to regulate alcoholic-beverage sales under its established system.
The political battle over allowing wine sales in New York State’s 19,000 supermarkets, grocery and convenience stores has resumed.
Hong Kong is becoming more and more important in the international auction world, with Acker Merrall & Condit leading the field, and Sotheby’s claiming the region is its most important wine centre.
David Lake MW, a pivotal pioneer in Washington State’s wine industry, died Monday. He was in his mid-60s.
The American wine-and-food world was stunned to learn today that the publisher Condé Nast was closing Gourmet magazine.
Powered by two Sotheby’s auctions, Hong Kong gained further clout in the international auction market last weekend.
American auction houses’ autumn-winter season has opened with a bang, especially in Hong Kong.
Despite a defeat last spring, New York State lawmakers have quickly introduced new legislation that would permit wine and liquor sales in supermarkets and grocery stores.