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With Memorial Day and the summer season kick-off around the corner, it's that time of year when we begin to crave rosé wines.

"Nestled among the foothills of the Coast Range of mountains at Rutherford, in Napa County, about sixty miles from San Francisco, in the State of California," wrote the editors of The Illustrated American in 1891, "is the famous Inglenook Vineyard, where are produced what the Wine and Spirits Traders' Society of New York a few years ago pronounced the best Californian wines ever placed on the market.

Join us at in the private dining room of Pizzeria Locale for an en event with François Xavier Barc of Complices de Loire in the Loire Valley.  F.X. is the former winemaker for the prestigious Domaine Charles Joguet in Chinon.  His skills with producing wines from Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, and Cabernet Franc are unparalleled and this is the first opportunity to purchase these wines in Colorado.  F.X.

Here's the thing about having dinner at the fabulous Del Posto on the west side of Manhattan, Lidia Bastianich, Joe Bastianich, and Mario Batali's flagship restaurant.

You don't just see celebrities (they're there, too). You see FOOD celebrities.

On the night I dined there this week, my party and I happened to bump into Scott Conant, chef, restaurateur, Italian gastronomy expert, author, television star, and one of the coolest dudes in the industry.

We really loved Eric Asimov's column this week in the New York Times, "A Wine Critic’s Realm Isn’t a Democracy."

"Should wine critics allow their personal preferences to color their critical views?" asks Eric. "Or should they remain neutral on questions regarding a wine’s style, regardless of how they feel about it?"

We all know the story of Jesus turning water into wine at Cana, as recounted in the Gospel According to St. John.

The miracle is significant, of course, because "it is the first of the seven miraculous signs by which Jesus's divine status is attested, and around which the gospel is structured" (Wikipedia).

Today finds me in Proseccoland, traveling the "Strada del Prosecco" or "Prosecco Route" between Conegliano, Valdobbiadene, and Asolo, the three townships that make up the Prosecco DOCG.

In 2009, the Prosecco grower and bottler association (the Consorzio del Prosecco) obtained a DOCG that covers the three townships above.

They share a common topography: Morainic hills that jut violently out of the plains below, with the Dolomite Alps just beyond to the north.