Thanks, everyone, for your well-wishes around the books. The talks have begun and I’m excited to see where they lead. Needless to say, I’ll keep you all informed. In the meantime, though, I thought I’d throw out a post on a fun party theme . . . a Blind Wine Tasting. No, it doesn’t involve […]
With the Wine Spectator debacle this week—where Robin Goldstein submitted a fake restaurant (with application payment) to Wine Spectator and was awarded their Award of Excellence seal of approval—coupled with Goldstein’s book The Wine Trials and the reaction of media and the public to both, it’s got me thinking. And you know me well enough to […]
Okey dokey guys, we’ve got nada from our own this week. So I bring you the words of author H. Warner Allen, which back up my own feelings about how the context within which we enjoy a wine contributes as much to our experience as the quality of the wine itself:
The wines that one best remembers are […]
Bravo to my Alaska buddy Jacqueline Church from The The Leather District Gourmet for joining in on Wine & Words.
Read about her adventures at Astor Wines (the place I cut my wine teeth, btw) in pursuit of a lesson on Spanish Txakolina. Let’s just say the stalking paid off.
Share your wine stories—on pairings or ponderings, seeking or sipping—by […]
I just got tagged by Foodette of Restaurant Review World for a fun meme. The theme is two-fold . . . one: are you a morning person or a night owl and two: what would you do (related to food and/or drink) if you could change your ways and become the opposite?
Oh, Foodette, if only […]
Okey dokey, here we go again. Last month, I launched the Wine & Words Blog Event, only to head out to Alaska and Maine and leave it languishing in my absence. So this month I’m going to do an official re-launch.
This time around, though, I’ve loosened the format a bit. I mean, who needs structure? […]
Hey gang. I mentioned that I was going to talk to Clos du Bois about raising money for WomenHeart as a tribute to Sher, and they enthusiastically agreed to help. Clos du Bois will match the amount we raise through the end of August September 15 . . . up to $10,000! So we have the […]
I did not plan this post. And I wish I weren’t writing it, quite frankly. As you know, I’ve been on the road quite a bit lately, and a lot of things happened while I was out and about. But I wasn’t prepared for the news that we lost fellow food blogger, Sher, from What […]
Hey all . . . seeing as these are the first few weeks of Wine & Words, and because I just returned from Alaska and am leaving for Maine this weekend, I’m going to extend this first installment of Wine & Words. So get the skinny here, cast back to your most life-altering food and […]
Nope, this isn’t a new dish. I had heard that Copper River salmon were the creme de la creme of salmon, so I came to Cordova, Alaska, just north of the Copper River Delta and east of Prince Williams Sound, to learn more. And within an hour of talking to fisherman Bill Webber I was […]
