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Ray Isle

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Food & Wine Exec Wine Editor / Wine & Spirits Editor, Travel + Leisure. On Instagram as @rayisle. Did I get to taste tequila with The Rock? Damn straight I did.
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10 Red Bordeaux That Prove Great Bottles Don’t Have to Cost a Fortune Original

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By Ray Isle Verified
| Food & Wine Verified
Somehow, somewhere, people got it into their heads that all Bordeaux is pricey. Or, maybe, fancy. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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The Secret Behind One of NYC’s Most Unforgettable Dishes Starts With a Grandmother’s Recipe

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By Ray Isle Verified
| Food & Wine Verified
Sixty-three floors above the bustle of Manhattan, in Saga’s serene dark-toned dining room, mid-way through executive chef Charlie Mitchell’s 10-course, $315 tasting menu with the lights of the city twinkling magically below, you will be served potato salad. It happens to be a layered composition involving almonds, capers, lemon, chives, a silky white-verjus sabayon, and caviar, and it arrives in a handcrafted German porcelain bowl, but it’s still, absolutely, 100% potato salad.
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This French Wine Is Chardonnay — Just Not as You Know It

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By Ray Isle Verified
| Food & Wine Verified
Chablis is located at the northern tip of Burgundy, just below Champagne, and its cool (even cold) climate and Kimmeridgian limestone soils push Chardonnay to produce precise, seashell-minerally whites, often with a distinctive rain-on-warm-pavement aromatic note. Gone are the days when Chablis was firmly out of fashion and its great wines could be had for a song.
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