The Perfect Pairing for Smoked Turkey It’s time to prepare the feast for my favorite holiday. This year we are having a hickory smoked turkey so I’ve decided to serve a Gewurztraminer. A bit of sweetness is needed to stand up to the smokey flavor of the meat. Fetzer Gewurztraminer 2010 Tasting notes: Lovely golden [...]
2008 Kendall-Jackson Monterey County Riesling Vintner’s Reserve California State Fair Double Gold winner – Best of California Riesling! 98 Points. One of the few winners that is still available to buy. Tasting Notes: Aromas of honeydew and peach with hints of citrus and apple. Flavors of apricot, pear and orange blossoms with hints of pineapple. [...]
German Riesling Now that the weather has finally warmed up, we’ve put the cabernets and zins on the back shelf and moved the lighter whites to the front. We tend to drink more of the lighter wines because their alcohol content is quite a bit lower than the reds. Rieslings average 10.5% alcohol while some [...]
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, [...]
Trestle Creek Riesling The AstraPouch From Glenora Wine Cellars, New York Finger Lakes region. From the Glenora website: The 1st U.S. wine available in this lightweight, environmentally-friendly, unbreakable package The AstraPouch is a sleek, durable, and efficient pouch that is the new alternative to the heavier glass bottle and bulky bag-in-box standards. Used to package [...]
Albariño Now that the weather has warmed up, we’ve been able to eat our meals outdoors on the patio. The photo above isn’t my patio. It’s actually Al and Tipper Gore’s patio at their new home in Montecito, CA. If it were my patio, I would be sitting there right now. Our patio backs up [...]
Muscadet Summertime and the livin’ is easy. It doesn’t matter if you live near the ocean, a lake, a cool river or a swimming pool, when the weather heats up we all enjoy being by the water. A very dry, zesty white wine from France, Muscadet is perfect for sipping on a hot summer day. [...]
A Great Summer White On our recent trip to Napa, we made a point to stop by the Robert Sinskey tasting room. Here they do it right – a flight of 4 reds served with a small plate of munchies to match the wines. The small servings of perfectly matched food make for a wine [...]
Plastic Wine Bottles Let’s face it. It’s all about cost savings, not taste. If you expect your Australian Shiraz to come in a traditional glass bottle, enjoy it while you can. Fosters is shipping their Wolf Blass wines in recyclable plastic – now on sale in your local grocery store. The new Wolf Blass ‘Green [...]
