May 17th, 2012
Grape by grape, cheese by cheese-- this is your guide for how to pair them up. Check back often and much as new pairings are added...
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May 16th, 2012
For their Connoisseur Wine Club, Williams-Sonoma paired up our Moric Reserve Blaufrankisch 2008 with a recipe for pork loin chops with roasted rhubarb. We have to hand it to them: this is an excellent match-up.... Recipe included
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May 14th, 2012
Phylloxera Vastatrix sounds like the stage name of a frowsy screen-starlet appearing in low-budget S&M movies. And oh, what we folks in the world of fine wine wouldn’t give if only that were the case, and this critter—also known as Daktulosphaira vitifoliae—were really a cinema-performer of indifferent talent....
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May 11th, 2012
Five Spice Shrimp is no friend to wine, and has always been a really good reason to reach for a bottle of lager or pilsner. If you've got to drink a white with it, Grüner Veltliner from a liter bottle is not horrible—but nothing in my experience wraps its own flavors around those of the spices as well as this light St Laurent...
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May 9th, 2012
One very welcome feature of 2011 is that after the small quantities produced in 2009 and 2010, there are not only good wines in 2011, but enough of them to quench even this nation's mighty thirst....
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May 1st, 2012
We are making a small amount of Zalto Champagne sets of 4 and 6 glasses available in a wine value pack that essentially gives you a bottle of the stunning Marie-Courtin Resonance Champagne (93WA) at no extra cost (2 bottles if you opt for the 6 glass deal). Check out these Champagne Survival Kits...
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April 26th, 2012
For his NapaStyle Wine Club, Chef Michael Chiarello selects our Winzerkeller Andau Gruner Veltliner, and then whips up a recipe for Beer & Chipotle Battered Fish Tacos to go with it. Read about it here, along with the recipe and then links to check out his club...
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April 25th, 2012
Wherein James Wright travels to Vienna, goes to his favorite haunt and pairs up Spargel (asparagus) with something other than the always-suggested Gruner Veltliner...
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April 23rd, 2012
Wine director Chaylee Priete has put together a list such that one almost cannot go wrong- ranging from grapes you know (hello Pinot Noir) to grapes you likely don't (buon giorno Vuillermin), and all of them the very best examples of what they can be....
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April 20th, 2012
Sommelier Justin Vann of Oxheart restaurant in Houston gives us our latest idea of what to drink with it...
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