By JANE ANSON

WANT TO SELL YOUR WINE IN NEW YORK?
The week of meetings ended yesterday with a great tasting and dinner at the Roger Smith Hotel on Lexington, where we had a mix of journalists through the Wine Media Guild and some really great consumers through the site Cork’d (owned by Gary Vaynerchuk, a kind of Facebook of wine). They should be reviewing the wines on the site over the next few days.
The last wine trade meeting of the week had been with Millesima USA, a retail store that is part of the Millésima wine merchant business in Bordeaux itself. Millésima is the only licensed retail outlet of a French wine company in the US, and has a great range of both Bordeaux and non-Bordeaux wines, located on the Upper East Side. The director over here is Roger Bomrich, one of the first masters of wine in the US. I’m going to repeat here pretty much in full what he said, because it was just so interesting and helpful for the winemakers, and gave a great overview of the routes into the US. Read More