— Gwendolyn Alley, Art and Wine Predator (@ArtPredator) August 31, 2016
Have a Bodacious and Naked Cabernet Day?
Is that a bit odd to say? No not at all if you are celebrating Cabernet Day with a bottle of Napa Valley Bodacious Cabernet Sauvignon
or a bottle of Oregon’s Naked Cabernet Sauvignon! Or like me, BOTH plus…
Naked Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 . Columbia Valley This Naked promises long legs and a smooth complexion.
we’re going to be enjoying a bottle of Andis Cabernet Franc from Amador County and a red blend “Midnight” with a lot of cab from Lange Twins! It’s Cabernet Day, right? Not Cabernet Sauvignon Day! Continue reading →
What do you know about South African wine? What about South African cuisine? Have you ever tasted either?
If you are typical Americans like Que Syrah Sue and I, you may never have had wine or food from the region! While I had tasted wine in Egypt when I went there January 2011 just before the revolution, I don’t think I’ve had wine from that continent.
But this is changing rapidly as more wine is produced for export. You can even find tasty, inexpensive South African wine at Trader Joes like the one below.
When I heard that Wine Pairing Weekend was focusing on South African wine and food to pair with it, Sue and I got very excited: we had recently tasted and wrote about South African Sauvignon blanc wines for Sauvignon Blanc day, and we were eager to try more!
Sue in particular was engaged by the jalapeño jelly notes in the wines and we were curious how that herbal spiciness might play itself out in other wines from the region.
Right away I contacted the media agency who had sent me the first wines asking if they could send me any others –and they said yes!
Sue got right on to researching the foods and what she found Continue reading →
South African wine and food that Sue researched and prepared for August’s Wine Pairing Weekend post
and more!
And now I’m headed to the International Food Bloggers Conference in Sacramento with great food of course and wine too. Then I attend the Wine Bloggers Conference in Lodi which, believe it or not, has even better food and lots more wine!
I have always been fascinated and amazed by what happens when you pair wine with food.
Because while I love wine, and certainly enjoy wine with or without food, there’s something magical that happens when you combine the aromas and the flavors of wine with food! Continue reading →
— Gwendolyn Alley, Art and Wine Predator (@ArtPredator) May 6, 2016
because Cinco De Mayo is a day where a lot if us, myself included, take a moment to enjoy tequila, the truth is that July 24, for some inexplicable reason, is National Tequila Day.
