Recent content by Taze Rowe

I haven't been in a number of years, but I still crave the focaccia de Recco from Manuelina, which appears to be just up the coast. I would put it as one of the great regional food specialties. The focaccia is the star, but we actually had a nice full meal there and I recall some bargains in...

It has to be 1980 Pichon Lalande, no?

I'm new to town and have searched hard for my Chambers. Red and White, as mentioned above, is best for natural wine. My second favorite is Independent Spirits for a wide variety of wines, many unusual (think Balkan wines from the '80s priced to sell), at good prices, and Lush is similar if...

There was a fair bit of this wine floating around at auction about a year ago and I ended up with a case. Pete's description sounds right, although there is a bit of a greener streak that says more Loire than Bordeaux to me. I paid something like $10 per bottle and though that was a good deal...

Road from the Past is truely an amazing book. Anyone who visits the Loire or Provence should read it, or even have a copy along, but it would be a worthy beach read as well.