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happenings BY LARA DOUGLASS Wine&Spirits & AUGUST 7–11/CO Photo by Team Player Productions Steamboat Wine FeStival Info: steamboatwinefestival.com Steamboat Springs’ 10th annual wine festival doesn’t stop at wine seminars—it mixes in some intense outdoor activities, like hiking seminars that lead to high-altitude tastings and single-track mountain biking with a cooldown Lodi wine lunch. August 2013 Vol. 32, No. 3 Publisher and editor Joshua Greene executive editor Tara Q. Thomas senior editor Luke Sykora tasting director Carson Demmond associate editor Lara Douglass senior corresPondents Patrick J. Comiskey • Patricio Tapia sPecial corresPondent AUGUST SEPTEMBER 3–4/NY Putnam County Int’l. Wine & Food Festival Patterson Info: putnamcountywinefest.com 15–18/AUSTRALIA Savour Adelaide Info: savour-australia.com 10–11/NY Finger Lakes Riesling Festival Canandaigua Info: rieslingfestival.com 19–22/CO Colorado Mountain Winefest Palisade Info: coloradowinefest.com 10–12/TX TexSom Conference Four Seasons Resort, Irving Info: 214-886-1665, texsom.com The TexSom Conference brings Texas sommeliers together for a weekend of intensive wine seminars dedicated to regions, grapes, styles and market research, as well as an annual competition that will determine Texas’s Best Sommelier. 20–22/RI Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival Info: 401-847-1000, newportmansions.org 25–29/NM Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta Info: 505-438-8060, santafewineandchile.org David Darlington art director Mike Rush director of digital media Elena Bessarabova-Leone contributing Writers Max Allen • John Anderson • Lou Bustamante Tyler Colman • Anthony Giglio • Jordan Mackay Fiona Morrison MW • David Schildknecht Bill St. John • Victor de la Serna regional corresPondents Bill Addison (Atlanta) • Ben Canaider (Australia) Victoria Pesce Elliot (Miami) • Jonathan Kauffman (San Francisco) • Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl (Midwest) David Tamarkin (Chicago) • Alan Tardi (Italy) contributing artists/PhotograPhers Bartomeu Amengual • Mark Brewer • Marvin Collins Matthew Farruggio • Michael Gross • Kelly Puleio Sergio Pérez Ramírez • Eric Wolfinger c i rc u l at io n & m a rke t i n g circulation director W. Charles Squires Website coordinator 26/NY Joy of Sake The Altman Building, NYC Info: joyofsake.com The largest sake tasting outside of Japan, Joy of Sake presents over 300 sakes in New York, alongside food from some of the city’s best Asian restaurants as well. Janusz Sikora distribution Curtis Circulation Company Subscriptions: 888-695-4660 $29.95 per year; Canada, add $10; Overseas airmail, add $30 (US funds). Send subscription inquiries and changes of address (old and new) to the editorial office. advertising advertising manager Samantha Groseth 415-255-7736 x2; Fax 415-255-9659 sales associate (east coast) Kate Grehl 212-695-4660 x32; Fax 212-695-2920 15–17/WA Auction of Washington Wines Woodinville Info: 206-326-5747 auctionofwashingtonwines.org Wine & sPirits magazine, inc. President Joshua Greene vice President Marcy T. Crimmins director of finance 16/HI Joy of Sake Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu Info: joyofsake.com 30–September 1/CA Sonoma County Wine Country Weekend Info: 800-939-7666 sonomawinecountryweekend.com 2 WINE & SPIRITS AUGUST 2013 Roy Schneider, Jr. Editorial and Business Office Wine & Spirits, 2 W. 32nd St., Suite 601, New York, NY 10001, 212-695-4660. Unsolicited manuscripts and photography should be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed return envelope. Email: info@wineandspiritsmagazine.com Wine & Spirits Magazine is published eight times a year by Wine & Spirits Magazine, Inc. 2 West 32nd St., Suite 601, New York, NY 10001 Contents © Copyright 2013 by Wine & Spirits Magazine, Inc. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced without written consent of the publisher. Printed in the USA http://www.steamboatwinefestival.com http://www.putnamcountywinefest.com http://www.savour-australia.com http://www.rieslingfestival.com http://www.coloradowinefest.com http://www.newportmansions.org http://www.texsom.com http://www.santafewineandchile.org http://www.joyofsake.com http://www.auctionofwashingtonwines.org http://www.joyofsake.com http://www.sonomawinecountryweekend.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Wine & Spirits - August 2013

Wine & Spirits - August 2013
Editor's Note
Happenings
Contents
Fined & Filtered
Spirits: Rum & Ginger Beer
Athens Wine Bars
The New Naoussa
California's Heritage Whites
Insider's Guide to Sonoma
Local Snacks, Local Bubbles
Extreme Values
Introduction
Summer Sparklers
US Pinot Gris
Alto Adige/Friuli
Vinho Verde/Albariño
US Riesling
Rosés
Greece
US New Releases
Imported New Releases
Last Sip

Wine & Spirits - August 2013