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It’s been an exciting year for us! Whether you’re looking to attend more of our wine and cocktail mixers, wine tastings and dinners or our upcoming wine destination trips…we look forward to sharing our love of wine and Beverly Hills! Be sure to visit our website often for local news, insights and exclusive offers. Happy Holidays! The Wine Team
John Malkovich’s Double Life in Wine
The actor-vintner, a late-blooming enophile, shares favorite wines, memorable moments and his fascination with fakes in part 2 of his interview with Wine Spectator contributing editor Robert Camuto. Growing up in the mining town of Benton, Ill., John Malkovich says, he “never even heard” of wine. “My parents would have a kind of spiked eggnog once every 20 years and that was about it,” he quips dryly. “In college, my friends were drunk 24/7 or they were on acid or something else. I was just never a drug taker or drinker.” In… Read More
Toasting To Beverly Hills’ Top Hotel Bar
An insider explains why the ambiance and spiked apple cider are so special at The Club Bar. Attention is nothing new for The Peninsula Beverly Hills. The Santa Monica Boulevard property is a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star institution. Its newly renovated spa is a Four-Star delight. The sublime Belvedere is a Four-Star foodie paradise. Its rooftop pool may not have an official award designation, but it’s such a tranquil urban escape that world-famous designers and top actresses reserve cabanas for midday meetings. So, when the sophisticated Club Bar was recently named to… Read More
Chef Curtis Stone’s Maude Rotates Its Menu One Wine Region at a Time
Over the past year, Stone looked to various regions around the globe to inform each menu and wine pairing. At Los Angeles fine-dining restaurant Maude, owner-chef Curtis Stone serves transformative iterations of one ingredient or theme. “When I opened Maude in 2014, the idea was to capture a moment in time with monthly tasting menu experiences that were inspired by a single hyper-seasonal ingredient,” Stone recalls embarking each month on a new conquest—from pistachio, to tomato, to passion fruit. Constantly evolving and never repeating an ingredient (aside from truffles… Read More
The Reign of Fred Dame | SevenFifty Daily
Wine professionals from Court of Master Sommeliers, GuildSomm, Daou, The Sardine Factory, Corkbuzz, and others weigh on Fred Dame MS’s legacy. The founder of the Court of Master Sommeliers Americas created a career path for stateside wine pros; in doing so, he elevated American dining for everyone. In a San Francisco home full of items that reflect a lifetime of hard work and play—rifles and fishing rods, trophies and medals, a 1956 Chevy Bel Air in the garage beside many cases of wine—Fred Dame opened a Daou Chardonnay. Hushing his hunting dog,… Read More
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