Shopping For Savoie? Here's Your Secret Trick!
And this week, speaking of easy peasy, I’m going to tell you the SECRET TRICK to finding a wine from Savoie. For realzies, you won’t even hardly need your brain.
The Enchantment (and Occasional Bummer) of Old Wine
In 1934 Adolf Hitler met Benito Mussolini for the first time. Franklin D. Roosevelt was pushing ahead with his New Deal and Flash Gordon made his debut in a comic strip…
Are You Drinking Your Red Wines Too Warm?
Are you drinking your red wines too warm? If you are drinking them at room temperature and if you have the heat blasting (or it’s mid-summer) and room temperature is above 65-68 degrees, then you are probably are!
Should I Be Decanting My Wines?
As I kid I was never very good at saving treats. If someone gave me a bag of candy, I would methodically work my way through it until it was gone. Once I’d started, I just couldn’t stop. Holidays were especially torturous.
The One Book Every Wine Lover Should Own
Some years ago I had a date coming over. I was going to impress her with a fish dish taken from a Raymond Blanc* cookbook (sophisticated indeed!). It offered a wine pairing. A Bourgogne. But wait. What the hell was a Bourgogne? A grape, a place, a winery, a person?