DRINK CULTURE Older Napa Valley
Vintages Galore PRESS Restaurant in St. Helena,
CA has added to an extensive list of older Napa Valley wines rarely available with two recent acquisitions by sommeliers Scott Brenner and Kelli White. During the past few months, the restaurant has purchased more than 2,000 bottles, bringing its off erings to 1,200 diff erent Napa Valley wines. Th e lineup focuses primarily on cabernet sauvignons from the '60s, '70s and '80s, as well as some whites and sparkling wines. Th e pair of sommeliers has mainly focused on older wines, staying true to the vision of owner Leslie Rudd, of Rudd Winery, of being a "repository for rare and older Napa vintages." Among the older wines that
PRESS recently purchased are a 1970 Mayacamas, 1974 Freemark Abbey Bosché Vineyard, 1982 Mondavi Reserve and 1962 BV Georges de Latour.
The interior of PRESS (top) and sommeliers Kelli White and Scott Brenner
(to the left and right above). .
Christie's Bar at Forty 1° in Newport RI will feature homemade honey in its drinks from the apiary (pictured in the inset) on the hotel's roof.
New England Rooftop Apiary
The Newport, RI hotel Forty 1°
North recently announced it will be serving house-harvested honey next year thanks to a rooftop apiary. The boutique, waterfront hotel installed a hive this fall, which will be home to 40,000 honey bees that are slated to produce 100 pounds of honey each harvest. The fi rst honey collection is planned for May 2012 and will be available to guests and visitors in the hotel's culinary and cocktail offerings.
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