Champagne This year we toasted the new year with a bottle of one of our favorites – Perrier Jouet Brut. Every now and then you serve a wine that you’ve had many times but for some unknown reason the bottle you’ve just opened is far better than any of the others. That was our experience [...]
10 Wines for Your New Year’s Celebration What’s not to love about Champagne? It goes with every type of food, it’s perfect all by itself and it makes any occasion special. Going into the next decade of the 21st century certainly calls for a drink – of something special! Cheers! Top 5 Best Selling Champagnes [...]
Fruit, Cheese and Wine The season for comic pears is short. If you can find these pears at the grocery store – buy them.They are wonderful – sweet and very juicy! They bruise easily though, so be careful when you’re handling them. Choose fruit that is still firm and after a few days they will [...]
World’s Oldest Champagne In July, divers began salvaging the wreckage of the two-masted schooner Jönköpin that was sunk by the Germans off the Finnish coast in 1916. (Read about it here) What was the treasure they were seeking? 4400 bottles of 1907 Heidesieck Champagne “Goût Americain”, 67 large barrels of Cognac and 17 regular barrels [...]
Traditional Pairings Lately, it seems like whenever you ask an expert for wine pairing recommendations for turkey or chicken they encourage you to try Pinot Noir or syrah. Yes, they both can go wonderfully with turkey, but because there are syrahs that are more powerful than some Cabernets and some Pinots that are too sweet [...]
From BBC News 30 September 2010 French thieves steal entire Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard Thieves in France have broken into a vineyard and stolen an entire crop of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, say police. They struck in Villeneuve-les-Beziers on Sunday night, taking advantage of a full moon and using a harvesting machine to seize 30 tonnes of [...]
Louis Latour 2007 Pouilly-Fuissé This French chardonnay is a favorite. One of the white wines that can be aged – 2 to 5 years. Unlike American chardonnays, this Burgundy region of France produces a mineral flavored wine that leans toward ‘crisp’ rather than ‘buttery’. Perfect for summer. Light straw color. Aromas of apple, honey and [...]
Rainy Day Wines It’s been raining, on and off, for a couple of days, and for some reason rain and soup just seem to go together. They had some nice leeks at the store so I decided to make leek & potato soup. It’s pretty simple to make and goes perfectly with European style chardonnays. [...]
3 Wine Price Points – One Great Winemaker While searching out the next “diamond in the rough” of good, affordable wine, it’s best to take in two considerations: the land the grapes are grown on and the style of the winemaker. One of the top winemakers in the world is 71 year old Aubert de [...]
2007 Domaine Lafond Roc Epine Lirac As Twisting Vines has previously noted, 2007 was a great year for Rhone wines. The three grapes that go into the region’s famous Châteauneuf du Pape are Grenache, Mourvédre, Syrah. The Domaine Lafond produced a terrific Châteauneuf du Pape that received 91 points from Robert Parker. Although the wine [...]
