Wine ChroniclesA Star, a Steal… and a Splurge: Lunch with Clos Sainte Hune
Because sometimes “economical” ends at the wine list By Panos Kakaviatos for Wine-Chronicles 16 October 2025 It was a treat to have enjoyed lunch with Don and Pam Cornutt and Jürgen Steinke at the new location for a one-star Michelin restaurant in Alsace that began its life in 2018 in the Strasbourg suburb of Schiltigheim […]
In praise of white Burgundy
Dry white outclasses all else By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 10 March 2018 Over dinner at the excellent Charlie Palmer Steakhouse in Washington D.C. this past January, which I can only highly recommend, a few wine loving friends put blindfolds on but we would have picked the white blind or not. As with “blind wine […]
Terroirs at Trimbach
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 25 May 2017 Earlier this month, it was great to meet Julien Trimbach, son of Jean Trimbach, and nephew of winemaking director Pierre Trimbach of the celebrated Trimbach Estate in Ribeauvillé in Alsace. Trimbach wines are “go-to” in the sense that you can always rely on a pure, dry expression of Riesling, […]
No more Jubilee
Hugel’s trend towards terroir, over brand 11 October 2015 By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com As we have seen with Trimbach, in a previous post from these pages, the historic Alsace estate Hugel also has been critical of the grand cru AOC system established in Alsace in 1975, and revised in the 1980s. Both estates have long preferred […]
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