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Follow Your Muse When Pairing Food and Wine
Music festivals can provide a wonderful opportunity to see singer/songwriters and groups with whom you’re not familiar, yet surprise your ears in delightful ways. At one such festival over the...
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Grapevine Identification: There’s a Science for That
Among the many things that the television game show “Jeopardy” has taught us is that in the category of “Science,” relatively simple topics can have some rather fancy and complicated names. The...
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Start Planning Today for a Stress-Free Turkey Day
In case you haven’t looked at the calendar lately, Thanksgiving is just nine days away. In other words, it’s time to panic. No, check that. It’s time to implement your plan for a stress-free Turkey...
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Welcome to Pinot Noir Week!
This may be Thanksgiving week, but around here we think of it in a different way. Around here, this is Pinot Noir week. Through years — no, make that decades — of experimentation, we’ve come to the...
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Seeking Your Favorite Wine-and-Cheese Pairing
Figuring out what kind of cheese you’d like to try or what kind of cheese you’d like to share with friends can be quite confusing because of the variety of flavors and textures involved. It’s kind of...
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The Top 4 Wine Stories of 2021
From supply chain challenges that delayed the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau to the lingering impact of wildfires on two continents, 2021 was a challenging year for many people who depend on wine to...
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Rams Fan? Wine Choices Abound for Big Game Food-Pairing Partners
Unlike the Cincinnati Bengals, the Los Angeles Rams were among the pre-season favorites to make it to the Super Bowl. And now, they have. If you’ve decided to root for the Rams during the big game,...
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Using Tapas to Find a New Food-and-Wine Pairing Favorite
In Spain, they are known as tapas. In Italy, it is known as antipasti. In Japan, it is known as yakitori. In the Middle East, it is known as meze. And here in the United States, we refer to them as...
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Soup and Wine: The Perfect Autumn Match
The arrival of autumn at our house, among other things, means a gradual transition from salads to soups. Honestly, I’m ready. While there are dozens of imaginative ways to transform the traditional...
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Breaded Pork Chops: White, Red or Rosé Choices Abound
Remember those commercials in which pork was described as “the other white meat”? Allow us to refresh your memory. What wine drinkers love about pork is that relatively simple preparations — i.e.,...
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