If you find yourself sitting alone on a weekend with a box of chocolate cake mix, fudge frosting and $20 to spend on yourself, I have an excellent suggestion. Make your chocolate cake (use Coke instead of water for a caramel-like taste and a fluffier batter) and spread lots of frosting over the whole [...]
If you want to learn about wine, food pairings, varietals, etc and yet also want to play around and not feel like you are learning, I have a recommendation. Give up on studying and just go play. In fact, play board games! To learn about wine though, you’ll need to play a particular game but [...]
My cousin got married this weekend. Yay. At the reception, they had 4 different (but similar) wines from Olivery Winery (yes, I was quite happy).
Camelot Mead (one of my personal favorites)
Soft White
Soft Rosé
Soft Red
The semi-sweet wines were an average-to-good choice for a diverse crowd. There was predictably no dry or semi-dry wines available thought it [...]
Wine should be enjoyed. But the difficulty can be in deciding which wine will match your palette the best. I’ve said before that price doesn’t always equal quality. However, often it is difficult to dig deep enough in a wine to find the best bottle. Do you want the 2004 or [...]
Alder Yarrow wrote a great piece in his monthly column at Gastronomic Meditations about the 5 stages of the wine drinker’s education:
STAGE 1: Red, White, Pink, or Bubbles
STAGE 2: Varietal Schmarietal
STAGE 3: Distinctions
STAGE 4: Depth
Vocabulary
Winemaking
Wine regions
Components of taste and aroma
Deliberate [...]
90% likely that if you’re drinking American, you’re drinking Californian.
The $45 billion industry for California is the 900-pound gorilla that has generally overpowered the rest of the nation in terms of small wineries getting known to the public. I have repeatedly shared my love for Oliver Winery in past posts. There are many others [...]
6 years ago, The Economist had a great article on very expensive wine. Not so much on what makes a wine justify a $100+ price tag, but instead, what purpose the marked-up wine serves to the wine community and to the casual wine folks.
During the mid-1980s and 90s, the south-Asian wine economy was on a [...]
Alder Yarrow wrote a great piece in his monthly column at Gastronomic Meditations about the 5 stages of the wine drinker’s education:
STAGE 1: Red, White, Pink, or Bubbles
STAGE 2: Varietal Schmarietal
STAGE 3: Distinctions
STAGE 4: Depth
Vocabulary
Winemaking
Wine regions
Components of taste and aroma
Deliberate [...]
The fall season has started encroaching upon us and the grilling season’s peak is ending (yes, you can grill all year long, but it’s best without snow on the grill). Saturday I had some excellent Lemon Pepper Chicken, grilled zucchini drizzled with olive oil, roasted red potatoes and green peppers, and of course, a spot [...]
Tim (of Winecast) has a good bit about his version of Virtual Wine Tasting. Given that he runs along the audio side of blogging, his tastings seem to have a more personal feel.
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