Entries tagged with 'wine'
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When we're lucky enough to celebrate good fortune with champagne or sparkling wine, we tend to do it before the evening begins. We gather at someone's home before dinner to break open bottles of bubbly.
These salty, spicy, and crunchy nibbles pair perfectly with celebratory wines.
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A cheat sheet of wine suggestions, based on your other beverages of choice. If you like your coffee dark and strong, you might also like an equally robust Shiraz or Malbec. And if you're into Coronas, pour yourself a glass of the light, not-too-sweet Torrontes.
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Although alcohol is more commonly used in stir-fries containing meat,
pairing wine with vegetables is an easy way to build complexity of flavor without exerting any effort. Compared to just a stir-fry with salt and garlic, adding wine as a finishing touch to the dish infuses a heady perfume in the greens. Try it just once and you'll be keeping the bottle on hand for more than just an accompaniment to your meal.
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Pad thai is one of my all-time favorite comfort foods, but I never quite know what to pair with those complex, spicy dishes. I asked
Todd Knoll, the executive estate chef at
Jordan Vineyard & Winery for his take on wine pairings with three Thai dishes. Knoll was raised in Hawaii and draws upon flavors from his home state, as well as Asia.
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A Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, allows locavores to snap up shares in all manner of produce, meats, cheeses, and more local harvest bounty.
including wine. Here's how it works: thirsty supporters sign up, committing to purchase a share of the product when it becomes available. The benefit is clear for small-scale vintners—they are guaranteed a market for the product when it becomes available. And for the buyer,
the benefit is the opportunity to support local producers and secure a limited-edition wine that may be available for retail purchase only in very limited supply.
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Having a personal sangria recipe is a hallmark of the thoughtful summertime entertainer. The basics I follow include chopping the fruit, marinating the fruit in sugar and alcohol, adding wine, chilling and serving. However, sangria can be a risky enterprise with pitfalls. Here are my tips and recipes for making sangria.
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Grab your charcoal and corkscrew, grilling season has arrived. We asked a wine and grilling expert to recommend what to pair with ribs, burgers, brats, grilled veggies, and more.
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I've witnessed what could be the beginning of the latest, greatest trend, and it's holding a wine glass. Over the past week I've been to a couple of events that put winemakers in the hot seat as cooks—the results were phenomenal.
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Hands off my bottle, buddy. A new bill might impact what's in your wine glass—and soon. the
HR 5034 bill could put an end to accessing wines directly from the source. Congress introduced the bill back in April, and it's currently going through the House of Representatives. Will it put an end to an entire swath of America's artisan wineries?
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Do millennial wine drinkers prefer something different from imbibers over the age of 35? We're about to find out, when the
NextGen Wine Competition takes place between June 14 and 15 in Santa Rosa, California. Although this strikes me as an exercise that might be easily addressed in standard market research, it still should be fun to watch from the sidelines. I imagine the larger wine and spirits companies will be particularly excited to find out which vino appeals most to the tastebuds of younger drinkers, at least those of legal age.
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