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Summer Wine ... and the Sipping is Easy 5 Aug 2013 | 03:58 am
Am enjoying some wonderful wines this summer that remind me of how simple and enjoyable wine drinking can be when you strip away all the trappings of so-called "serious" wines (translated: pricey Cabe...
Holiday Gifts to Sip and Use 1 Dec 2012 | 06:51 am
Emeril Lagasse is the latest celebrity chef happy to winnow down the ever-expanding world of wine choices for you before you decide what you really like or what pairs well with your food. The Food Net...
Telluwhat 26 Jul 2012 | 04:43 am
Photo credit: Telluride Tourism Board/Ryan Bonneau If you haven't been to Telluride, Colorado, you may not know that it is a town of almost year-round festivals: the Telluride Film Festival, Brews a....
Eastern Townships, Quebec 21 Jul 2012 | 04:28 am
I had never heard of the quiet, rural area east of Montreal known as the Eastern Townships before I visited in late June, but I went there in search of the local wine. What I found was much more. .....
Wines That Love Oysters 11 Jul 2012 | 11:58 am
You've probably enjoyed Champagne with oysters, maybe a California Sauvignon Blanc, a French Sancerre or perhaps a dry Chenin Blanc. But if you have not tried Muscadet from France's Loire Valley with ...
Oysters By the Bay 22 Jun 2012 | 06:23 am
For a City by the Bay (and the Pacific Ocean), you might think San Francisco would have quite a selection of oyster bars, but I only know of about half a dozen, including the venerable Swan Oyster Dep...
Culinaria in San Antonio 27 May 2012 | 09:41 am
San Antonio's annual Culinaria festival: The first-ever food truck event on May 17, 2012 offered lots of food trucks gathered in one place. The trucks, such as Rickshaw, Duk Truk and Say-She-Ate, dish...
Untitled 3 May 2012 | 07:53 am
Rosé Roundup A rose is a rose is a rose, as Gertrude Stein wrote, but a rosé can be even better. This spring and summer, when you want the refreshing quality of a white wine but with more weight and...
Carmel-by-the-Sea Wine Walk 30 Jan 2012 | 02:36 pm
Last month, I stayed at a great family-run inn, Hofsas House, in Carmel-by-the-Sea where I went to experience the new Carmel Wine Walk. Eight tasting rooms within six blocks of each other in the centr...
Ways of Wine 16 Nov 2011 | 02:32 pm
"The Ways of Wine" is a new film by Argentine filmmaker Nicholas Carerras about Miami-based sommelier Charlie Arturaola, who travels to the Mendoza wine country in Argentina to participate in a typica...
