Despite Recession, California Resort Thrives - NPR News
The luxury hotel market around the country is hurting: several are on the block; others have slashed prices or made package offers that they ordinarily wouldn’t. But in Southern California, one place refuses to cut prices. The rooms start at $700

A Famed Paris Restaurant to Auction Its Wines - New York Times
The French capital sprawls over an older version of itself, a vast warren of tunnels and stone chambers, many dating from the Middle Ages and now housing anything from pantries to jazz bars. After the gold vaults of the Bank of France (and the

The ’scandal du jour’ from Bordeaux - Napa Valley Register
I am not merciless. I am just being reasonable. For years, the French have been working with the importers with big wine chains to push the top Bordeaux prices higher and higher. Note: 2000 was the vintage of the century, then 2005 was even

Chatter: What we’re hearing - GlobalPost
Want to know: Perhaps the most famous piece of subterranean Paris real estate is the wine cellar at La Tour , stretching for 27 rooms and holding 450,000 bottles. Of that immense collection, 4 percent or 18,000 bottles will be sold Monday and