Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He was nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones (2009). Tucci's other recent celebrated roles have been in The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia. He has been nominated three times for Golden Globes, and won twice — for his title role in Winchell, and for his supporting role as Adolph Eichmann in Conspiracy, both from HBO films. He also received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Winchell. He was nominated for Broadway’s Tony Award as Best Actor in a Play for his role as Johnny in the 2002 revival of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
Ray Isle
Ray Isle is Executive Wine Editor of FOOD & WINE, the modern, stylish, trend-spotting, talent-seeking epicurean brand. In addition to overseeing F&W’s wine department, Isle writes the monthly column, Tasting Room, for the magazine, directs the title’s spirits coverage, and is the author of foodandwine.com’s wine blog, Tasting Room. Isle was promoted from wine editor in 2010, and has also served as deputy wine editor and senior editor. Prior to joining FOOD & WINE in 2005, Isle was managing editor of Wine & Spirits Magazine. He regularly conducts wine tasting seminars at epicurean events and appears as a wine and spirits expert on national television, including NBC’s Today and CBS’s The Early Show.
Emilie Perrier
Emile, Originally from Roanne, France in the Rhone Alpes, Emilie was raised in Burgundy. After becoming a cheese specialist at Mons Cheese Affineur in Roanne, she moved to New York City where she became a Certified Sommelier. Emilie has served as sommelier or Wine Director at a number of top New York restaurants, including The Modern Restaurant and Robuchon’s French Cuisine. When she was Wine Director of Sho Shaun hergatt in 2008, her 550 selection wine list received a macaron Michelin, in addition to many other awards from the New York Times, Zagat, Guyot, Glamour Magazine, and Esquire Magazine. In 2010, Emilie was honored by Food & Wine Magazine, receiving one of seven awards as “Sommelier of the Year.” She is currently Chief Sommelier at Ai Fiori.
John Benjamin Hickey
John Benjamin Hickey started his career on Broadway, starring in Mary Stuart, The Crucible, Cabaret andLove! Valour! Compassion!, for which he won an Obie Award. He then starred in the feature film adaptation of Love! Valour! Compassion! Since then, he has been in numerous films, including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Flags of Our Fathers, The Ice Storm, The General’s Daughter, The Anniversary Party, Infamous andFlightplan. On TV, he has appeared inBrothers & Sisters, Sex and the City,and Law & Order.
Mario Cantone
Mario Cantone's one-man variety show, Laugh Whore, opened to a flurry of rave reviews and was later taped for the Showtime network. An accomplished stage actor, he has appeared on Broadway in The Violet Hour, Assassins, and Love! Valor! Compassion! He is also well-known for his stand-up comedy and has performed at a wide range of venues, from Carnegie Hall to the Borgata in Atlantic City. In addition to his own TV special Comedy Central Presents Mario Cantone, he has appeared onLate Night with David Letterman, Oprah, and The View.
Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Bastianich is one of the best-loved chefs on TV, as well as a cookbook author, restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Her cookbooks include Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy and Lidia's Italy, both companion books to the Emmy-nominated Public Television series, Lidia's Italy. Lidia is the chef/owner of four acclaimed restaurants in NYC—Felidia, Becco, Esca, and Del Posto. Along with her son, Joe Bastianich, Mario Batali, and Oscar Farinetti, the team opened Eataly in 2010, the largest artisanal Italian food and wine marketplace in NYC. For more information on Lidia, visit www.lidiasitaly.com.
Domaine Dominique Mugneret
Domaine Clos Salomon
DOMAINE JACQUES PRIUER
DOMAINE DES PERDRIX
DOMAINE SYLVAIN PATAILLE
Maison Fougerary de Beauclair
Côtes de Nuits
Burgundy is perhaps, along with Bordeaux, France’s most famous wine-producing region and Côtes de Nuits is one of its main subregions. As such, it should be no surprise that wine from France’s Côtes de Nuits is among the world’s most coveted. Although a bottle’s label wouldn’t say so, any red wine with Côtes de Nuits on the label is made from Pinot Noir grapes. The Côtes de Nuits makes up the northern tip of Burgundy and some of the allure of the Côtes de Nuits lies in the difficulties of growing Pinot Noir at such northern latitude.
The weather is intensely seasonal and can vary dramatically from year to year, and this presents an enormous threat to an industry that thrives on consistency. For the winemakers of the Côtes de Nuits who manage to triumph over the area’s terrain, the rewards in both quality and profit are well deserved.
The wines of the Côtes de Nuits are generally classified according to their proximity to one of fourteen villages, and in a true expression of terroir, the wines tend to exhibit certain traits and qualities that are characteristic of the specific area within Côtes de Nuits where it was grown.
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Wine has been produced in Burgundy for 2000 years. Vineyards were in existence in the first half of the first century A.D. For more information on Burgundy wines visit: www.burgundy-wines.fr
The Dukes of Burgundy laid down the first policy for wine-growing and wine-making in history. In 1395, Philip the Bold issued an ordinance that set out the ecological principles for high-quality wine-growing.
Gamay vs. Pinot Noir: Philip the Bold banned Gamay from being planted in Burgundy and ordered existing Gamay vineyards to be torn out, so that the grape would not compete with the “more elegant” Pinot Noir. Happily, Gamay found a new home and today is the primary black grape of the Beaujolais region
In 1693, Louis XIV’s court physician Dr Fagon prescribed “old Burgundy wine” as part of his patient’s regime. Napoleon, who was also following doctor’s orders, only drank wine from Burgundy’s Chambertin appellation.
The phylloxera crisis hit Burgundy in the 1870s and 1880s and most of the vineyards were destroyed by the disease. Local vine stocks were replaced with naturally resistant stocks from the United States and these were then grafted with scions of traditional French grape varieties.