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From left, Sam, Stu and Charles Smith of Smith-Madrone. Meg Smith photo Smith-Madrone launches a year of 50th anniversary celebrations on May 14. It was on May 14, 1971 that founder Stuart Smith signed the paperwork to close on the purchase of 200 forested acres on top of Spring Mountain outside St. Helena. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Smith-Madrone has dug deep into its cellar and will be re-releasing wines on the 14th of every month through the anniversary year. In May there will be a six-bottle vertical of Cabernet Sauvignon, a horizontal collection of 2013 Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling and Cookâs Flat and several other unusual wines. The re-released wines are very limited in availability and will appear on a specially designated page on the wineryâs website. ....
Gregg SegalGetty Images When New York’s Le Bernardin reopened for indoor dining, all too briefly, this past fall, sommelier Aldo Sohm returned from a monthslong sojourn in Austria and Germany, where he had reacquainted himself with the pleasures of riesling, a white wine made from the eponymous grape. “People are so passionate about it there,” the World’s Best Sommelier of 2008 told me. The same cannot be said of Americans, however, who have been resistant to the charms of rieslings, especially those from Germany. But not long after his return, Sohm hosted a dinner for the Commanderie de Bordeaux. Instead of white Bordeaux the logical choice for a society dedicated to promoting the wines of that French region the group chose a German riesling to accompany the first course. Then, the following week, a group of Burgundy collectors dined at Le Bernardin, and they also ordered a German riesling. “I thought, What’s going on here? This would never have happened a y ....