It’s #ThirstyThursdays & we’ve got some great #wine ready to open from #wfmwine pic.twitter.com/czymxqjIkH
— Gwendolyn Alley, MA (@ArtPredator) June 27, 2013
Today, Thursday June 27from 4-6pm is one heckuva Thirsty Thursday! We’ve got 8 bottles of wine to open, taste and tweet about!
What comes to mind when you think about Riesling? Sweet? Or too sweet?
Guess aga
in!
What about Alsace?
If you’re a typical American, I’d bet you probably don’t know that…
Alsace is a region in the Northeastern corner of France, right next to Germany and above Switzerland with 38,300 acres of vines, with over 13% organic or biodynamic, making the region one of the greenest in France. In 2011, Alsace produced 12.5 million cases of wine.
Alsace has 13 different and very distinct types of soil from volcanic to limestone to clay, the most diverse terroir in France.
Alsace is in the rain shadow of the Vosges Mountains making it the second driest region in France with around 20 inches of rain per year. Alsace also experiences a lot of sunshine with 1,800 hours annually. Warm days and cool nights allow for slow ripening, which produces complex, aromatic and balanced wines.
Alsace produces mostly white wines: still, sparkling, and sweet, but also Pinot Noir.
Crémant d’Alsace makes up 24% of the production and is produced in the tradition method from Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir (all Crémant d’Alsace Rosés are 100% Pinot Noir) or Chardonnay (only for Crémant production).Yum! Read about the Lucien Albrecht Cremant d’Alsace we opened for Mother’s Day!
So what should you pair with that Riesling from Alsace now that you know that it’s not necessarily sweet? Continue reading
Which cheese should you pair with which wine? Which wine goes with which cheese?
This wine/cheese pie chart from Wine Fetch offers a few ways to answer that question.
I’m preparing for a Twitter tasting of four Rieslings from Alsace on Thursday from 4-5pm (more on that in tomorrow’s post!) so Annie AnyDay and I were discussing today what we should fix to pair with them.
Since Paradise Pantry is now open Continue reading
Don’t you just love this wine map of California by DeLongWine.Com? This is one in a series of Wine Maps with these regions available currently:
They’re $25 unframed or $100 framed; I think they should turn them into boxed note cards or postcards! In fact, I’m going to suggest to them to do postcards of California for the Wine Bloggers Conference in 2014 in Santa Barbara for the gift bags.
They also offer a number of free resources including Wine Tasting Note Forms.
This map is part of a series of fun posts using infographics, tables, charts, and maps. Here’s an infographic about the evolution of PR. Coming up: a pie chart about how to pair wine and cheese, and an inforgraphic about reisling. And then I hope to have my series of posts about Tinhorn Creek in BC ready to post!
I don’t know about you, but I love Infographics and various graphic representations of data.
In fact, I am so enamoured of them that I’ve signed up for Vizify which has made an infographic about ME which you can see here.
I’ve come across a few great ones recently so I’m going to post a series of them.
Today is “The Evolution of Public Relations” which I found here. I appreciate how this infographic emphasizes permission marketing and social media strategies including blogging.
Tomorrow is a fun variation of a wine map of California.
Then I’ve been holding onto a handy pie chart that pairs wines with cheeses so that’s next.
Finally, I’ll post an infographic about Riesling in advance of the Alsatian Riesling twitter tasting that I’m participating in on Thursday.
And then I hope I will have my series of posts about Tinhorn Creek in British Columbia ready for publication…
As I’m moving into my 10th year of marriage, my son is heading into 5th grade, I’m in my 15 year of teaching writing at the community college level, I’m 12 years into a 30 year mortgage, and I’m almost done with my second year of my PhD (about to earn a second Masters, this one in Depth Psychology), I sometimes see opportunities and say, hmmn, I wonder, I wish. What if.
Shoulda coulda woulda. Continue reading
We’ll see!In the meantime, the perfect time to check out Lambrusco is today Friday June 21, 2013–the first day of summer and Lambrusco Day!
I was sent a sample of the IL Mionetto Lambrusco so Annie and I opened it up yesterday in anticipation of Lambrusco Day. Annie said,
“This is a lot of fun for 10 Bucks!”
And I agree! Continue reading
wine predator.............. gwendolyn alley 