Taking the world one wine at a time.
Even though Bordeaux remains the Old World wine of choice for many with new money to burn, their tastes are no-doubt changing. When people think of Bordeaux, sweet wine is more than likely the LAST thing on their mind! Sauternes and Barsac, in the Bordeaux region of France, make a very different kind of wine than people have come to know Bordeaux for; namely, sweet and white. But growers in the region have slowly started…
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Grapes 100% Cabernet Facts There’s Napa and there’s Napa. The term “Napa Cabernet” is all too often used to refer to any wine that hails from “The Valley.” This rhetoric quite effectively tars all wineries with the same brush: from the behemoth brands, supplying many of the large grocery stores with their generic-tasting wine-flavored alcohol; all the way through to the small estate properties, producing miniscule quantities of truly hand-crafted wines each year….
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This was sent to me by a school-teacher friend a couple of days ago. She thought I might enjoy it. She was right! According to her text messages, the exact conversation went as follows: Kid: “Why are you taking a picture of my work?” Teacher: “Because my friend sells wine…” Kid: “Your friend sells wine?” Teacher: “Yes. He’ll like this…”
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I was asked to write an article for Jacksonville Magazine a few weeks ago, and I figured – since my postings here have been kind-of “slack” of late – I would share it with my wonderful readers. The beers – in case you don’t recognize them – are all local Jacksonville breweries. Chicken Since many chefs view chicken as a “blank canvas” on which to exercise their culinary creativity, the type of BBQ sauce…
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Ok! The long-awaited second part to my: Pairing Wine with the Cast of Downton Abbey series! Once again, just so we’re all on the same page, if you haven’t seen Downton Abbey, this is all going to make absolutely ZERO sense to you! Then again, if you haven’t seen Downton Abbey, this is a perfect reason to do so! I would like to point-out that there are a few “spoilers” lurking within this article…so read…
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I couldn’t help but post this….with the particular students’ permission of course. As some of you may or may not know, I have spent the past year teaching a wine class at the local Art Institute here in Jacksonville. It’s only part-time, which turns-out to be perfect, since it enables me to keep my other “side-gigs” going, but it’s also actually extremely rewarding. Seeing students go from literally never tasting a wine before, to being…
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