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Looking for a Weekend Cocktail? Let The Polo Bar Provide
Looking for a Weekend Cocktail? Let The Polo Bar Provide
By Elise Taylor August 6, 2020 Want a drink right about now? You might as well make it one from The Polo Bar. Since opening in 2015, the midtown restaurant has held steady as one of the hottest reservations in New York thanks to its stylish equestrian decor, scrumptious offerings, and celeb-heavy crowd. (It helps that Ralph Lauren has hosted many a launch there.) But while the food—order the burger!—and reputation may be what brings you to The Polo Bar, their exquisite cocktail menu is what will keep you coming back. General manager Darnell Dodson has curated a list of...
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Cool Hunting: The Pink Experience From Provence’s Chateau Gassier
Cool Hunting: The Pink Experience From Provence’s Chateau Gassier
"Radiating from the base of France‘s Mount Sainte-Victoire, the estate vineyards and winery for Château Gassier produces some of the most exemplary rosé wines in the Provence region—from fresh and fun to round and complementary. In fact, their unique microclimate and position within the Arc Valley affords all of these wines the specific designation as a Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire—a sub-appellation recognized since ’05. And here, Château Gassier welcomes guests into their home, granting lovers of rosé a detailed, dynamic and quite pink peek into their produce and products. Across their 40-hectare estate vineyard—planted with Grenache, Cinsault, Rolle and Syrah—a terroir of clay and limestone gives way...
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8 Gorgeous Wine Regions to Visit in France That Aren’t Bordeaux
8 Gorgeous Wine Regions to Visit in France That Aren’t Bordeaux
"Bordeaux is to France what Napa Valley and Sonoma are to the States—a wine country paradise along its country's southwestern coast home to some of the world’s most famous vineyards. There's more to France, however, than its most-visited vino locale. From the birthplace of rosé to the sparkling capital of Champagne, here are eight wine regions that should definitely be on your radar... Provence: Hike the trails surrounding Château Gassier’s organic vineyards, nested at the foot of Mont Sainte-Victoire, or embark on a 155-mile cycling and yoga tour with Ride & Seek, pausing to sample Provençal specialties like tapenades and truffles along...
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Meet Your New Favorite Summer Wines (for Under $20)
Meet Your New Favorite Summer Wines (for Under $20)
"With the end of summer too soon in sight, every ray of sun, every minute of PTO, every drop of wine seems precious. But you don’t have to dry up your bank account to quench your thirst. From Italy to Argentina, tremendous values can be found in every corner of the wine world. Here are eight summer favorites, no more than $20 each, that sacrifice neither complexity nor your savings. 6. Château Gassier Rosé Côtes de Provence “Esprit Gassier” 2016 (Côtes de Provence, France) "No wine hue has come to emblemize warm weather quite like rosé. But with more of the pink stuff flooding...
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The rosés of Provence
The rosés of Provence
"#DrinkPink #ThinkPink #PinkWineMakesMeHappy #RoséTime #RoséAllDay #RoséEveryday – The hashtags for rosé wine abound! With summer here, the shelves are lined with various shades "of pink. "Rosé is so refreshing, so delicious and the perfect wine to pair with just about anything. Rosé wines are made all over the world but the home of rosé is Provence, France. As the sun shines, the "temperatures rise and I open a bottle of rosé, I recall my recent visit to Provence and to Chateau Gassier. "Provence is a large region in the southeast of France. There are three main AOP (Appellation d’Origine Protégée)...
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Rosé All Day… and All Year
Rosé All Day… and All Year
"The Vins de Provence wine tasting at Chicago’s Sepia did not occur on the blue-skied sort of day when one might typically call for rosé, but this only further supported what Vins de Provence set "out to do. Rosé is no longer pigeonholed into summertime and garrigue-seasoned white meats. Americans take rosé seriously now, and this can mostly be attributed to the one region that’s been "treating rosé as a formidable wine since the 14th century—Provence. There, rosé accounts for over 89% of wine production, and many vignerons tend to favor the direct press method. This, "combined with a sunny...
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Berger on wine: Rosé on the rise in California
Berger on wine: Rosé on the rise in California
"One of the most important long-term trends in California wine over the last decade has been the dramatic rise in both the quality and volume of rosé wines. The fastest growth in the category "seems to be in the last three years, with almost every winery that has a tasting room making at least a small amount of rosé, and many making a lot of it. Rosé has been around for decades, but "great rosé is a recent phenomenon. Today, it has reached a pinnacle of quality that is hard to describe. I first discovered that rosé was better than...
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Should You Drink Yacht Rosé?
Should You Drink Yacht Rosé?
"Is any pink wine worth $100? There’s a musical genre from the late '70s/early '80s dubbed yacht rock: smooth, heavilyproduced music made by virtuoso musicians in expensive recording studios. "Think Steely Dan, Hall & Oates and the Doobie Brothers. And to drink on your yacht with such music? There can be only one candidate: Provençal rosé, the more expensive the better. "You can’t "miss these wines in your local store. They come in a bewildering array of bottles resembling amphorae and bowling pins, with squaredoff shoulders and some even entirely square. "Then there’s the distinctive color: Provençal rosés have to...
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Know Your Wine: Celebrate summer with this French Rosé
Know Your Wine: Celebrate summer with this French Rosé
WINE OF THE WEEK2015 Gassier Côtes de Provence Sables d'Azur Rosé “Pink is the new white. Dry Rosé has become one of the hottest trends in wine in the past five years due to its popularity and consumption. “The Rosé wine category was up 34 percent to $63 million in the 52 weeks ended May 23, according to Nielsen, with volume rising 29 percent to nearly half a million cases, about double the category’s 2012 total. “You might have also noticed there are many more Rosé selections readily available today at your local wine shop or on the wine lists...
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A Pair of Perfect Pink Potables from Provençe
A Pair of Perfect Pink Potables from Provençe
“For decades, many Americans who professed to take their wine drinking seriously reacted with indignation or disgust on being presented a glass of rosé. This prejudice against pink wine probably harks back to a time when the best that hosts could muster was a bottle of Lancers. Only in the last decade has rosé begun to be rehabilitated in the eyes of the country’s oenophiles… “Another release that exhibits Provençal rosé’s perfections is Château Gassier 2015 Le Pas du Moine Rosé ($25, chateau-gassier.com), which comes from an estate in the foothills of Montagne Sainte-Victoire currently managed by the fifth winemaking...
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