3 vinho verde with a family style Portuguese inspired dinner of tuna and orzo with zucchini fritters
Vinho Verde: Green Wine That’s White from Portugal Paired with Tuna, Tomato, Basil Orzo #WinePW
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Invitation To Re/Consider Harvest: how will global warming change what we drink, eat, grow? #WinePW
The excitement of verasion in the vineyard becomes the high intensity of harvest.
Picking began already in one vineyard in Ventura County! And I was there in the Mitchell vineyard in Saticoy where volunteers were picking chardonnay to go into the Clos des Amis Chambang sparkling wine!! Time to celebrate!
As with all farming, there’s many questions at harvest including: Continue reading
Moldova: Bubbles, Red Blend, and …Pizza? Yes! #WinePW
Who is the eleventh largest producer of wine in Europe and in 2014 the twentieth largest wine producing country in the world?
Tiny Moldova!
While most of the wine from Moldova is exported, very little lands in the United States; instead it heads to Russia. Once part of the Soviet Union, Moldova Continue reading
Two Riesling from the Finger Lakes Paired with a Potluck #WinePW
As summer gatherings become more of a reality after a spring of staying home, you may wonder what to bring to that potluck on the horizon.
Riesling is a great choice for a potluck because it goes with such a wide range of foods. Especially easy drinking and affordable riesling from New York’s Finger Lakes region!
“Orange” Wines from CA and Italy by accident and on purpose with pairings #WinePW
You know about red wine: you know that it’s red because “red” or dark skinned grapes get pressed and the juice and the skins hang out together for a little or a long time.
You know about white wine: you know it’s white because “white” or light skinned grape get pressed with little contact with the skins and the juice gets fermented.
You drink rose all day and all May and you know that rose can be made by quickly pressing red grapes so there’s almost no skin contact OR it’s made by mixing red and white wines.
But what about ORANGE wine?
Simply put, an orange wine is a wine made from a white wine grape like chardonnay that then has been made more like a red wine by leaving the juice on the skins for an extended period.
Orange wine is short hand for extended skin contact white wines.
Ancient Wine for Modern Times: Slovenia’s Jarenincan and Calamari with lemon caper sauce #WinePW
Now that many of us have some extra time on our hands to complicate life, love, and wine in the time of the corona virus, one question about wine may have crossed your mind:
Where did wine originate?
If you guessed Italy, and specifically Sicily, you wouldn’t be far from the truth. Wine has been made on that island since 4000 BC.
But even earlier than that wine was made further east, in Georgia. According to Wikipedia, people began making wine there in 6000 BC.
Not quite as old as Georgia, Slovenia Continue reading
“A Taste of Ojai” with Chef Robin Goldstein and Topa Mountain Wines #WinePW
To visit the Ojai Valley in Ventura County, California, whether you take the 33 from the Pacific north or south from the Los Padres National Forest or the 150 from Santa Paula west through Ojai or east from Carpinteria, you will slowly wind your way 15 miles or so among the chaparral and the orchards, with much of the hillsides still showing how it burned in the 2017 Thomas Fire.
Unroll your windows and let the scent of citrus blossoms fill the air. Smell the sage in the chaparral or the dampness of the sycamores along the creeks or Ventura River.
At the end of the day, watch the sun paint the Topa Topa Mountains with splashes of color in a display famously known as “The Pink Moment.”
The Topa Mountain Rose of Grenache shows Ojai’s famous “Pink Moment”
While my Aussie version of Siri pronounces it Oh-JI, it’s actually pronounced “Oh- Hi!” and that’s what it feels like in this small town of about 8,000– everywhere you go, you’ll be saying “oh, hi!” The word Ojai, however, comes from the Chumash: ‘Awha’y means moon, and the area is spectacular by moonlight.
By bright moonlight or abundant sunlight, Ojai Valley inspires and invites artistic expression — whether the medium is paint, pastels, words, or music with the Ojai Music Festival continuing to go strong since 1947. Artist Beatrice Woods, the Mama of Dada, famously shocked herself while living here until she died in her 90s in the 90s, attributing her long life to beauty (in men especially!) and chocolate.
wine predator.............. gwendolyn alley 