Wine Sediments

It will be “very fruity and full…with tastes of raspberry and currant,”  the news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur tells us here in France. The “promising”  2006 new wine is a success, according to journalist Carole Bianchi – although the title of the article refers to the “persistent economic crisis”  facing French wines.
Le Monde, in an article simply entitled “Le beaujolais […]

We have had Earl Grey. We have had chili and cardamon. And now wine.
Apparently the latest trend in chocolates is infusing them with wine. The recent New York Chocolate Show had truffles and
ganaches spiked with everything from Chardonnay to Shiraz.
Chocolatier J Emanuel offers the Napa truffle range flavoured with various wine grape varieties; Zinfandel from […]

The AP reports that the small town of Tracy in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California recently earned itself a marketing tool. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, a division of the United States Treasury Department, granted approval label wine from the region as unique. The region is called “Tracy […]

Most days, I have some wine with dinner, say, “Hmm, I like that,” and then go on with my life. Once in a while, I stumble on a bottle that makes we want to grab strangers by the lapels, shake vigorously, and then recite a treatise on delicious fruitiness and notes of pineapple.
The 2004 Planeta […]

My good internet buddy, Lenn, had the enviable task of supplying the wine tasting notes in this new book. Penned by Clotilde, a famous name on the food blogging scene, Chocolate and Zucchini - Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
On one side of the Atlantic you can order […]

Well, worship may be too strong a word. But I have been a Wine Spectator subscriber for several years, and have really come to appreciate and look forward to Matt Kramer’s words. Sure, Jim Laube and James Suckling are enjoyable as well, but Kramer always manages to say something that leaves me thinking, “yeah, he’s […]

That great publication, Inside Bay Area, has a great little article on Zinfandel and using it in cooking. While this may seem a waste of your precious icnonic bottles laying gracefully in the rack, the recipe does sound rather good.
The are specifically looking at the Rancho Zabaco Zinfandel and, although the article is aimed at […]

I have just finished getting the last e-mails of the kind I don’t want to get anymore. They went like this:
Dear Italian Wine Guy,
Thanks for setting us up at Castello di Greatness. Got delayed at the Prada outlet and never made it. I never realized that Piedmont was so far away from Tuscany. Thanks. We’ll look […]

Who doesn’t love a good list, right?  Terry Kirby of the The Belfast Telegraph taps into the ease and familiarity of a list and provides what he considers to be the best ten red wines for Autumn.  Here are the top three and what Kirby has to say about each.  Check out the full article […]

The Sacramento Business Journal’s Celia Lamb reports that interesting things are afoot in California’s El Dorado County.  Growers there have decided that just growing Merlot or Chardonnay isn’t going to cut it anymore.  As a result, they have decided to venture out and try growing grapes that are “something to appeal to people’s inquisitiveness,” according to […]