Sushi, seared ahi, and Austrian biodynamic white wines are very fine!
Can you taste RESPECT in your glass of wine? How? Continue reading
The Taste of Respect in Austria’s respekt-BIODYN
Category Archives: adventures in wine
The Sea in Chablis and the Tragedy of Premox in William Fevre #Winophiles
Chablis and the sea in the barrel room at Cantara Cellars in Camarillo
Premox– premature oxidization.
That was the explanation I was given for what I was tasting. Continue reading
For Teachers, Moms, Friends: Show Appreciation with Organic Corvezzo Prosecco and PortoVino Purses
Corvezzo
It’s time to celebrate! After a year of lock downs during the COVID 19 pandemic, now that so many people have one or both vaccines, it feels like the world is starting to open up again. And so yes it’s time to celebrate and what better than sparkling wine and hugs for hard working moms, teachers, and friends?
Well that MIGHT be a bit over the top but you get my drift. Continue reading
So Africa’s Organic Reyneke Syrah and Chenin Blanc with Instant Pot Persian Lamb Shanks #WinePW
Success often comes at a price, but at Reyneke, it’s important that their success does not cost the earth or people. So says Johan Reyneke. Instead, the goal of Reyneke wines is for both planet and people to flourish.
To achieve this goal, Reyneke ONLY produces organic and biodynamic wines– Continue reading
Comparing Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough’s Mohua and Napa Valley’s St. Supéry for #SauvBlancDay
Sauvignon blanc
St. Supéry may have invented Sauvignon Blanc Day in 2010 to call attention to this refreshing, citrusy wine, the event quickly took off and New Zealand has taken over leadership for #SauvBlanc Day, a global, virtual, day-long celebration each year on the first Friday of May, which this year is today, Friday May 7, 2021! Continue reading
Slow Wine Guide USA New PRINT Edition and New 2021 Field Rep: ME!
The 2020 Slow Wine USA Guide covers 285 US wineries; Deborah Parker Wong is the US Coordinating Editor
“Speed became our shackles. We fell prey to the same virus: ‘the fast life.'”
“In the name of productivity, the ‘fast life’ has changed our lifestyle and now threatens our environment and our land (and city) scapes.
“Against those – or, rather, the vast majority – who confuse efficiency with frenzy, we propose the vaccine of an adequate portion of sensual gourmandise pleasures, to be taken with slow and prolonged enjoyment.” Carlo Petrini, SLOW FOOD MANIFESTO
Earth Day is Every Day,
so they say.
But it isn’t always easy
to live that way…
Fortunately, there are Continue reading
2017 Aldo Clerico Barbera D’ Alba with Anchovies, Pizza, Sausage Orecchiette #ItalianFWT
Aldo Clerico Barbera d’Alba imported into the US by Verovinogusto
Do you know Barbera?
If you do, you already know about this high acid low tannin, full bodied, intensely colored and flavored red wine that in 2000 was the third most planted grape in Italy!
And if you don’t know Barbera yet — or very well — you’re in luck because this month here at Wine Predator we’re hosting the Italian Food Wine Travel group for “It’s All About Barbera.” Read the invitation post here with a California Barbera in “5 Reasons Why We Love Barbera“ and the Preview post here with an organic Tomisa Barbera. Scroll down to see the titles and links to the ten participants as well as the prompts for the 8am May 1 twitter chat.
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