Entries tagged with 'wine'
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Jason's Wine Blog does a regular "Best of Trader Joe's Wine" feature. This reminds me of a boozy Christmas project I undertook with my sister where we rated TJ's 2005 red wine offerings under $4. The quality really jumps if you opt to spend $6....
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On Fridays, Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 drops by with Serious Grape. This week, the wines to have in reserve for winter entertaining. Photograph from tomsaint11 on Flickr As running to the store for "last minute" items becomes more and more stressful, wouldn't it be nice to know that you had the right wine on hand this holiday? Here's a shopping list for a mixed case of wine that will satisfy most needs for things that sparkle, refresh, warm you, and tickle your sweet tooth. What's even better is that only two bottles in the case will cost you more than $20, and most will cost you under $15. Hopefully, this means there's one less list you have...
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From the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board comes Cheese Cupid, a site to help you pair wines, beers, and spirits with cheese. [via AdFreak] Related Sommelier To Go: Pairing Wine with Cheese Classic Wine and Cheese Combos...
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The winter holidays are about a lot of things. Not unimportant among these many meaningful sentiments are two predominant aspects of the holiday season: staying warm and getting drunk. Ursula of Jane Spice, Mulled Wine combines the garnet Christmas red of Burgundy wine with the tart spike of Thanksgiving's cranberry juice, dressed up with the spices of the season. It looks, and must smell, like December in a glass. Plus, it delivers the warm and drunk part with a single punch. Just be sure not to serve Santa—he may be old enough, but a reindeer DUI would seriously interfere with presents....
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On Fridays, Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 drops by with Serious Grape. I've got so much tryptophan in my blood stream and chaos in my house that all I can manage this week is to scrape myself off the couch long enough to tell you where you can go to do some Friday-morning wine quarterbacking. If the site traffic here on Serious Eats and on my own blog was any indication, Americans were seriously concerned about what wine to serve with Thanksgiving. Despite my own best efforts to keep it low-key and relaxed, people worried. You all did great--at least that's what the data on CellarTracker!, my preferred online cellar management program, tells me....
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Here's a handy primer on
how to serve wine, including how to chill wine quickly, proper serving temperatures for a range of popular wines, and whether or not you should let red wine breathe. You can use this advice all year around—but it's especially nice during the holidays to cross one worry off your list.
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Photograph from jetalone on Flickr Every year on the third Thursday in November, corks pop at midnight in celebration of the arrival of the year's Beaujolais Nouveau, a light, fruity red wine from the Beaujolais region in France. While the wine's debut is a celebration for its home country, in the United States this wine symbolizes Thanksgiving. It's also cheap, easy to find, and very drinkable. Gary Vaynerchuk, author of 101 Great Wines, described the wine as having, "Aromas of fresh rhubarb pie and little hints of black pepper." The flavor, he wrote, is, "Full of beautiful, complex fruit, with a slight soapy quality. It's like Mr. Bubbles meets Smucker's jam." Even with that slightly off putting description, Vaynerchuk actually...
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Lazarus Wine is made by people who are blind and uses the Braille alphabet. Madrid-based agency Baud designed the beautiful, innovative label, which comes in black or bright yellow. [via Swissmiss] Related: Braille on Beer Cans in Japan...
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On Fridays, Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 drops by with Serious Grape. This week, she stands up for cheapo wines. Photograph from filtran on Flickr In today's Wall Street Journal Tastings column, two of the country's most distinguished and level-headed wine journalists (Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher) announced their annual wine gift pick for the holidays. Usually, this wine is expensive, hard to find, or both. This year, it's a case of Gamay from the Beaujolais—one of the world's best wine bargains. Gaiter and Brecher explain why they made this unorthodox choice: "a single, very expensive bottle of wine seems as dated as bloated executive bonuses." Is America ready to put aside its love affair with $100-plus...
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On Fridays, Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 drops by with Serious Grape. This week, she "drinks" the words of historic wines. My new wine addiction isn't about drinking—it's about reading. These days, my favorite glass each day is the wine I'm drinking vicariously through the reviews of Michael Broadbent, quite possibly the world's most distinguished and experienced taster. You may know of Robert Parker, founder of The Wine Advocate. You also may recognize the name Marvin Shanken, who founded The Wine Spectator. But you've probably never heard of Broadbent. That's because he tastes and reviews wine that will never touch the lips of most people on this planet. The old stuff. The rare stuff. The stuff of legends...
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