Part 1: Old world 09 Domaine de la Quilla, Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie – Loire Valley, France Color – clear, pale yellow. Aroma – grapefruit, lemon, hints of honeydew. Taste – high acid, lemon, stainless steel, green apples, nice viscosity. Finish – mid length. Conclusion – DiMaggio suggested a pairing of cold seafood salad. …
In a search under Healthy/LowFat/Easy/Quick/Painless/Chef 101/Dimwit/Blond… I found a nice recipe that only called for about three hours minutes of chopping, crushing and dicing, to which I just did the dicing. Duh. But boy howdy, was this good. I invited our Canadian-Transplant friends over to try the recipe as well as they are always very…
Mourvèdre The Grape of the Night for the month of May was fantastic. Everyone pulled out all of the stops and brought some terrific examples of a very unique wine known as Mourvèdre. This wine originated in Spain and is also called mataro or monastrell. It is the principal black grape of the five appellations…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few weeks, you should already know that Jeff Jacobson, wine chair of the former SCV Wine Classic, has taken on the Vine 2 Wine CLASSIC event being held on Sunday, June 12, at the Mann Biomedical Park. He added the word “CLASSIC” to the title to…
Big news hit my inbox last week. Rumors of All Corked Up wine club members being shuffled over to Vino 100…prompted a whirlwind of rumors on my Facebook page when I posted the news. I contacted Lil Lepore, owner of Vino 100, and found out that… …There was an e-mail notification sent out by All…
We haven’t used a wok since our old kitchen in our old house because we had an electric stove in the new one. (And, to clarify, that “we” was just Eddie over our old gas stove.) I never could figure out how he did it. But, with my NEW gas stove, and my NEW wok,…
Once again we had a fantastic Grape of the Night adventure at Valencia Wine Company. The varietal for this adventure was Petite Sirah. I was corrected by many of my readers for posting the incorrect spelling. I am glad to see so many detail oriented readers in our group actually read what I write. Petite…
Two completely opposite wines reviewed in one post! Somebody stop me! A sancerre (French sauvignon blanc for my wine 101ers) and a “Rosato” (Really a rosé but you know how we like to fiddle with the names of blends) from Napa. Starting with the sancerre: 2009 Pascal Jolivet, 13% alcohol, real cork in good condition….