Eating is like a pass time for many North Americans. We pursue this activity with the same passion professional athletes devote to exercise. The difference is that it costs us lots of money to eat well and no one pays us to do it (usually). Meanwhile, our waistlines expand while soccer players and hockey stars [...]
Call me shallow, but my latest taste-test sits on my desk because the bottle was irresistable. The Dunavar Pinot Gris 2010 from South Africa is stunningly packaged. Clearly, design has an impact.
There are many grapes which have been dated back to antiquity, but World of Wine suggests that Muscat de Frontignan could be the oldest. It first grew in Ancient Greece before being planted in small crops around the world.
Christopher Waters at the Toronto Sun recommends that the flavors on our wine racks should shed layers in the same way that we do during warmer weather. In other words, those rich reds will probably be eschewed in favor of lighter flavors. He had some suggestions as to what wine-lovers might want to try as well.
One reader indicated an interest in reading more about historic wine bars after reading about Gordon’s in London. Pubs are more common, of course. There is one on every major street corner in every village. Schools and churches may empty-out, but the pubs remain and continue to attract business.
Gayot has provided a list of 10 wine bars their reviewers think are the best in Seattle. This list includes (in alphabetical order) Bin on the Lake, Black Bottle, Bricco della Regina Anna, Grand Cru Mixologie Lounge, Portalis, Purple Cafe and Wine Bar, Sip Wine Bar and Restaurant, The Sitting Room, Smash Wine Bar and [...]
Just about every kitchen is home to at least one special cook book. I was fascinated with the Betty Crocker cook book my mother owned (and which fell apart as a consequence of frequent usage, sadly).
With a seafood and wine festival approaching in the McLaren Vale, it seems like a good time to discuss which wines go with particular seafood dishes.
It’s ironic that, while it is actually winter in Australia, I would rather be there right now. Ours has been the coldest, wettest spring since 1955 and is actually fractionally colder and wetter even than that dreadful spring (a bit before my time, but records show…)
Wine tourism is booming in parts of the United States, Canada, Spain, Australia, France and other countries around the world. There were questions some years ago as to what would replace certain disappearing industries; how we could boost our economies without polluting the earth.
