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The article offers information on the Germain-Robin Single- Barrel V384 Muscat wine, reports on the relocation of Grace's Marketplace store in Second Avenue, New York City, and chocolate skulls from Woodhouse Chocolate.

In 2002, Etude, a Napa Valley winery that specializes in pinot noir, bought property in the Carneros district for its tasting room and visitor center. The property had once been a distillery and came with barrels of unfinished, aging brandy, some more than 20 years old. Jon Priest, the winemaker at Etude, sampled and selected the brandies, and now he has made two blends, one that is 100 percent pinot noir from various vintages, and another that is assembled from eight varietals, including pinot noir, French Colombard, muscat, ugni blanc and chenin blanc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At Passover Seders, which begin on April 8, Teal Lake's aromatic 2008 sparkling muscat can serve as the first of four cups of wine and can accompany desserts later. This semidry Australian white appeals to traditionalists who love sweet Manischewitz and modernists who prefer dryness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Torrontes is Argentina's most planted white grape, and the source of its signature dry white wine. Dominio del Plata's 2008 Crios de Susana Balbo torrontes is scintillating. Tasting of honey, melon and peaches, it is best drunk young and lightly chilled. Fans of charming whites like alberino, muscat and viognier can taste similarities in this complex aperitif wine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Domaine de Blanes has produced a beautiful 2007 dry white by blending muscat blanc a petits grains, perhaps the oldest known grape variety, with deeply aromatic muscat of Alexandria. This so-called vin de pays (country wine) from Cotes Catalanes in Languedoc-Roussillon, in southern France near Spain, is as light as chiffon. Drink it young with spicy paella. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Describes the taste of the Muscat of Alexandria wine.

Features the muscat wine of Heidi Schröck.

Focuses on Australian fortified dessert wines, muscat and tokay. How the wines are made only near Rutherglen, Australia; Praise for the Australian wines; Flavor and intensity; Views of Denis Horgan, owner of the Leeuwin Estate in Western Australia; How the methods of making these wines have changed very little in more than a century; Comments of master blenders, Bill Chambers of Chambers Rosewood and Mick Morris of Morris Wines; The vineyards at Rutherglen; Dining out in Rutherglen.