Soup and Wine As winter approaches and the weather begins to get cooler – or colder, depending on where you live, soups are easy and delicious to have for lunch or dinner. When I was at Costco last week they had small bags (6 large onions) of sweet Mayan onions that I thought would be [...]
White Wines That Are Better with Age Usually when we think of wines that age well we most often think of cabernet sauvignon, Barolo, Brunello di Montelcino and fortified wines like Port and Madeira. But, there are white wines that are better with age. Red or white, there are certain conditions that allow some wines [...]
State Fair Medal Winners The California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition is the oldest and most prestigious wine competition in North America. Each year, thousands of California wines are entered into the competition for the chance to win one of many coveted awards from the State Fair’s panel of expert wine judges. After the competition, [...]
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. [...]
Gallo’s Turning Leaf Gets Makeover From Financial Times: Napa Valley, the seat of California’s wine industry, is not exactly a fashion mecca. The pastoral towns dotted around the vineyards are more Buddhist than Burberry, more caps-’n’-culottes than Chanel. So slightly tipsy heads turned from cellars to catwalks when it was recently announced that Basso & [...]
Gallo Wine E. & J. Gallo is the largest winemaker in the world. Since 1964, we’ve known Gallo for it’s top selling ‘jug wine’ – Hearty Burgundy. According to Gallo spokeswoman, Kristina Kelly, “The wine was a favorite of winery founders Ernest and Julio Gallo because it was the kind of hearty red wine they [...]
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 [...]
Bev Mo’s Wilfred Wong When you walk down the wine isles of Beverages and More, you can’t help but notice the majority of wines are rated by Wilfred Wong. On my first visit to the local store, I wondered: Is this a real guy? What does he know about wine, anyway? Wilfred is a real [...]
Crème de La Crema By Virginia Boone – Press Democrat Back when Melissa Stackhouse was studying winemaking at UC Davis in the 1990s, she figured any serious California winemaker would go to the Napa Valley and make cabernet sauvignon. Making high-minded hearty reds, she thought, would be the path to glory. And for a time, [...]
