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In case you're not familiar with the Coravin, it's a tool that allows wine professionals to extract wine from a bottle without breaking its seal or removing the cork. The device itself is a high-tech syringe that's inserted into the bottle through the cork. Because it doesn't allow any air to enter the bottle, the fitness of the remaining wine is not compromised.

Danny Meyer, Jonathan Waxman, Jacques & Claudine Pépin, Marcus Samuelsson... Reading the schedule of events and seminars for the first day of the Aspen Food & Wine Classic (June 20-22) is like reading a who's who of America's leading chefs and food personalities.

It seems like just a few years ago that you would offer someone a glass of Prosecco and they would invariably light up and say, "oh, great, Champagne!"

Today, the exact opposite is true. Prosecco is so ubiquitous at social events that most people will just assume that the sparkling wine in their glass is Prosecco.

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.