Jamie and I had tickets to Fuerza Bruta this past Friday in Union Square, and wanted to take advantage of one of the many fine dining experiences in the area. Still riding high from our Babbo experience, we were interested in trying another restaurant within the Mario Batali pantheon. We settled on Casa Mono, the [...]

What if instead of reading one of the influential media outlets, such as “The Wine Spectator,” or Robert Parker in the “Wine Advocate,” you opted to invite 507 of your closest friends to sample over 6,000 glasses of wine blindfolded. Wouldn’t the traditionally more expensive wines favored by Robert Parker logically still come out ahead?

Well, there you go. No sooner do I see the controversial Alice Feiring speak, and begin reading her great new book, The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization, have my own views about wine been subtly altered, in fundamental ways.