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Wine-and-Food Pairings for a Long Football Weekend
For the first time in National Football League history, the league will stage a six-game “Super Wild Card Weekend,” with three playoff games on Saturday and three more on Sunday. That’s television...
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Raise a Glass While You Root, Root, Root for the Home Teams
It’s the best time of the year for a football fan. The national collegiate football championship was decided Monday night, and this coming weekend, eight remaining teams will take part in the National...
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Countdown to the Super Bowl With Delicious Food-and-Wine Pairings
Last week we shined the spotlight on the home teams in the NFL Playoffs, and shared some wine pairing suggestions for fare you’d be likely to encounter in those cities. In three of the four games, the...
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Much More Manageable New Year’s Wine Resolutions
If you’re like most people — including this one — you’ve already broken any New Year’s Resolutions you may have made. So don’t beat yourself up over it; you’re among friends! A much more manageable...
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A Taste of the Caribbean With Your Favorite White Wine
A single ingredient can almost completely change the personality of a dish. This is particularly true of spicy ingredients, such as jalapeno peppers. A “legit” Caribbean Chicken recipe utilizes those...
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A Delicious Meal to Enjoy After Furniture Shopping
So many of our most vivid memories are focused on food. When I was I kid, I recall our family visiting a Swedish smorgasbord on a fairly regular basis. My favorite food there was a delicious light rye...
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How to Make This Mother’s Day the Most Memorable Ever
Those who are fortunate enough to still have their moms around could take her out to breakfast or serve her breakfast in bed for Mother’s Day. But if you go out, you’ll be battling for tables with...
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New Vegas Resort Offers a World of Wine Opportunities
It’s always a big deal when a new resort opens in Las Vegas — a city that is constantly reinventing itself. A major remodeling of the venerable Hard Rock Hotel and Casino was completed during the...
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Great House Wines… for Your Home
Do you like to entertain at home? A little bit of planning can make for some great parties. But we may not always get as much notice as we’d like when friends or family are going to be in town. So...
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The Language of Wine: What Is Meant by ‘Minerality’?
It could happen with a glass of German Riesling from the bucolic Rhine region. It could happen with a glass of white Chablis from the Burgundy appellation of France. A person with some knowledge of...
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Getting to Know the ‘Feeling’ of Wine
Have you ever thought about how wine feels in your mouth? Have you struggled to come up with words to describe that feeling? The most common terms are similar to those used to describe coffee:...
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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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