Sometimes what you really want is familiarity, consistency, and simplicity. Like the comfort foods that we often turn to as the holidays approach, there are some wines that also fit this description. These are wines that are made to be consistent crowd-pleasers. They create a simple background for the meals, conversations, and festivities to take […]
Maybe you are most familiar with vermouth as the often-maligned but necessary ingredient in a martini, manhattan or negroni – one that you would no sooner pour a solitary glass of than the angostura bitters that are often overlooked as well. Drink vermouth straight? Not you! Or maybe you are much more in touch with […]
Wine, by definition, is fermented fruit juice. So, maybe I’m going a bit beyond the scope of this column by including a “honey wine.” I hope you’ll agree that it is well worth a diversion to discover something new – a taste adventure with Floralia Botanical Mead.
When you think of French wines, Corsica may not be the first (or even the third) place that comes to mind. That’s one of the reasons I was happy to try this wine. That, and the fact that it was highly recommended to me by the good folks at Kermit Lynch as a good gift […]
Long Island is east of New York City and may be best known for its seaside getaways for a century of rich and famous. Also, it is a large bedroom community of “The City”. For ages, the North Fork of Long Island has been an agricultural community where wonderful potatoes, sweet corn, and happy oysters […]
Navarra is located in the north of Spain, separated from France by the Pyrenees Mountains. Winemaking in this region pre-dates Ancient Rome. Aside from its wines, the region is probably best known for the famous “running of the bulls” in Pamplona.
The Vacqueyras is located in the southern Rhone region of France. Once part of the Cote du Rhone Villages, it was awarded its own AOC designation in 1990 because the region produces consistently distinct wines of good quality. The wines of Vacquyras are considered to be similar in character to those of its neighbors, Chateauneuf-du-Pape […]
Maison Jeeper was founded in 1949, just after World War II by Armand Gourtobe. M. Gourtobe came from a family of high-quality Champagne producers.
The Syrah grape, also known as Shiraz, is most common in the Rhone Valley of France and eastern Australia. It thrives in the most challenging soil conditions and climates and requires hot weather to ripen evenly.
