Testarossa Winery is Serious About Its Soils
Tuesday October 2, 2012 by Ryan Fernandez
Testarossa Winery showcases its soils in its tasting room to stress the importance of all parts of the winemaking process.
Just up the street from downtown Los Gatos, California is the 124-year old Jesuit Novitiate (pronounced "no-vish-ut") winery. Testarossa Winery has been using the three-floor, gravity-flow winery since 1996.
We dropped by the tasting room on a bright and hot late summer day, where they had not only wines but samples of their soil from their different vinyards. Testarossa partners with more than a dozen California vineyards, each producing a different kind of wine. Even the earliest French winemakers believed that soil, through such factors as drainage and root structure support, had influence over the amount of minerals and nutrients to which a vine is exposed.
Here is one soil sample from the Pisoni Vinyard.
For a more throrough explanation of their winemaking process, stop by Testarossa next time you're in NorCal!
5 Years of Craft Los Angeles
Tuesday September 18, 2012 by Ryan Fernandez
Tom Colicchio, who recently designed a special menu for a Game of Thrones food truck, is also ramping up for the official Top Chef Cruise which he'll be hosting in April 2013. Being so busy, how has his original business - Craft Restaurants - kept up?
Back when MenuGem first launched - that is, back when I first began to really write about restaurants in earnest, I remember Craft in Los Angeles being sort of my de facto benchmark for what fine dining was supposed to represent - an impeccable experience, memorable from the moment you even approached the restaurant, all the way through to your after-dinner chatter.
And why not? I of course have always associated Tom Colicchio with Top Chef, but the man had a strong career even before the popular TV series premiered in 2006. As a partner at Gramercy Tavern in New York, he opened the original Craft location one block away in 2001. Craft Los Angeles was opened in 2007 and there is also a Craft in Dallas, not to mention Colicchio's other concepts Craftsteak, Craftbar and 'Wichcraft.
Judging from the amuse-bouche and dishes pictured here, I think it's safe to say that the delivery of experience and quality control at Craft is doing just fine.
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