I got this recipe via my WhiskeyNotes e-mail newsletter subscription to MaltAdvocate.com – And it’s making me very hungry! Enjoy! Eve Ingredients 1 cup Arborio rice 3 cups chicken broth + 1 cup water 1/2 lb. clean shrimp, tails removed 1/4 yellow onion, finely diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 3 tbsp whiskey 2 tbsp tomato…
Epoch Estate Wines How does a winery achieve immediate cult status? I first heard about Epoch perhaps a couple of years ago, maybe a little less. Lots of buzz on the erobertparker. com message boards and elsewhere. I signed up for the mailing list and was offered a small allocation. They sold out, I think,…
The last time I co-chaired a big wine event, Pour Into Haiti with Roman Weiser and David Schutz, I counted on these two very capable men to harness the winery help while I could focus on being the social networking butterfly. With the Circle of Hope (COH) taking over the Betty Ferguson Foundation’s Vine 2…
My mother-in-law gave me Campbell’s Soup Back Label Cookbook, a joke to her, but I used it. Some days I’m just plain lazy, and finding a recipe on the back of a can, having all ofhe the ingredients on hand, works. This was one of those days where I only had to thaw a few…
I thought I had twenty more years to go before I started to fall apart, bit by bit, part by prosthetic part. I thought the pain in my right big toe was just due to wearing stilettos and every woman had them. (As in Carrie’s line to her mother in the movie of the same…
Sent by reader Chantel Kilmer, look who has their AVA now: LANCASTER – It’s official. Antelope Valley has been declared an American Viticultural Area – a prestigious honor in the world of wines. An American Viticultural Area is a designated wine grape-growing region in the United States distinguishable by geographic features, with boundaries. Efforts to…
Ingredients 5 cups diced watermelon, divided 6 ounces gin, divided 8 tablespoons lime juice, divided 1 1/3 cups ginger ale, divided Lime wedges, for garnish Directions 1. Freeze 1 cup watermelon for garnish. Puree the remaining 4 cups watermelon. Strain; divide the juice among 4 ice-filled glasses. 2. Top each with 1 1/2 ounces gin,…
It was Saturday afternoon, and we were wrapping up our visit to Paso Robles. The previous day, we had spent much of the afternoon with Neil Roberts of Clavo Cellars, tasting through the wines he had in barrel. It was now time for our last stop of the weekend, visiting the Clavo tasting room…
Phylloxera – Want to sound smart? Throw out this tidbit I stole from class: The grape Phylloxera/aphid/louse succinctly took out all of France’s wine growing when they used our vine cuttings there in the 1850s. Our little bug, that our vines were resistant too, ate their way through French vines. They had to either rip…
Please join us for a Tasting of Italian Wines paired with cheeses, charcuterie and Italian-inspired appetizers. Co-hosted by Sommelier & Importer Justin Gallen of Rinascimento Wine Company, he will introduce some of his favorite Italian wines, remarkable wines because of the “blood, sweat and tears that are shed working with nature to make something…
