Hot Date
Kathie Lee Gifford, co-host with Hoda Kotb of the fourth hour on NBC’s Today, is signing bottles of her new GIFFT wines on Saturday, April 12 from 1 to 3 pm at Stew Leonard’s Wines in Yonkers. There’s the 2012 GIFFT Chardonnay, which displays richness, depth, and complexity balanced by a lively acidity, and the 2011 GIFFT Red Blend, a smooth wine with a core of red fruit that’s a blend of 42 percent Merlot, 25 percent Petite Sirah, 12 percent Syrah, 10 percent Petit Verdot, and a small percentage of other varieties. The $15.99 wines are produced in the Scheid Family Wines’ Salinas Valley vineyards.