2 Organic Wines from Cantina de Frignano paired with Sicilian style pizza
Tiny Cantina de Frignano in Emilia-Romagna produces around 22k bottles, at most 2k cases a year. While quite small, they grow a wide variety of organic grapes, specializing in a few which grow nowhere else in the world, Continue reading
Five of Sicily’s Native Grapes
An active volcanic island off the toe of the boot of Italy, Sicily is surrounded by the sea.
These two factor into the origin of Sicily’s native grapes, but it’s the combination of island’s location just over a mile from Italy and less than 100 miles from Africa that make the cuisine unique.
I was sick, sick, sick all of fall of 2022. At least that’s what it seemed like. After almost three COVID years of avoiding people and wearing masks, it’s as if this cold and flu season has hit us with a vengeance. There’s even a name for it: “immunity debt.” Honestly, I’m still coughing, which is hard because I am typically a robust, healthy, strong, active, and fit person. Like just about everyone else, I hate being sick. It’s annoying. It’s exhausting. I want to get on with my life.
Worse, when I’m sick, usually wine tastes bad. Coffee too, but that’s not a problem for someone who writes about wine as often as I do.
Orange wines for summer times with tasty bites
Clink different with sparkling wine secrets from around the world
Happy New Year! On New Year’s Eve, more than any other except maybe a wedding day, all minds go to sparkling wine. Sparkling wine is one of my favorite beverages and I drink it all year– and not just on special occasions! So as I’m preparing Top 10 2022 lists from Sue and I, I thought I’d take a look to see what we did with sparkling wine in 2022 and I came up with this Top 10 Sparkling Moments for 2022:
Chile’s Vermut Flores and Italy’s Organic Corvezzo for Cocktails
“I don’t like wine,” said my friend Maria. “It tastes sour, like vinegar. But I do like wine cocktails!” As much as I love wine, the idea of making a cocktail with it seems a waste of good wine. However, there is much more to making cocktails with wine than putting gin in it like one guy did on a date saying “I know you like wine but it doesn’t do much, so here” as he poured gin into my red wine which I was enjoying with my steak just fine. Wine as a component might also offer a lower alcohol alternative to a more powerful drink– just the opposite of what that long ago date wanted. Continue reading
Durello DOC’s Dynamic Durella Sparkling Wine from Sandro De Bruno
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