Crisp white wines from France’s Loire Valley make a good choice just about any time. But don’t forget to consider Loire Valley red wines. They, too, deliver plenty of delicious, fruity refreshment served slightly chilled.
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Pennsylvania Macaroni Company Soldiers On
Pasta, cheeses, ham, olive oil, bread, fresh produce….faithful customers of Pennsylvania Macaroni Company, founded in 1902 in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, have long enjoyed a wide selection of these staples. With the current Coronavirus situation imposing mandatory social distancing, the “Penn Mac” team has adapted to soldier on in serving customers both locally and nationwide.
Dave’s Wine Tips: Tasty, Affordable Northern Italian Wines
With northern Italians now living in virtually complete lock down, show your support by appreciating and enjoying delicious wines and recipes from the region. Most Northern Italian recipes use ingredients readily available here. And the region’s wines offer plenty of high quality, tasty bottles at reasonable prices.
Dave’s Wine Tips: Fun with Bocksbeutels!
Enjoying a tasty wine in a distinctive Bocksbeutel bottle always provides a sure fire way have some fun. Who couldn’t use a little fun right about now?
Dave’s Wine Tips: Tasty Wines From Ventoux
In France’s southern Rhône Valley, Mont Ventoux offers plenty of drama both for cyclists and winegrowers. On 13 occasions since 1951, the tortuous switchbacks of “The Giant of Provence,” as the mountain is called in France, figured prominently in the famous Tour de France bicycle race. But while the Tour de France visits only occasionally, the rest of the time Mont Ventoux dramatically influences more than 15,000 acres of vineyards in the foothills and plains surrounding its base.
Dave’s Wine Tips: Delicious “ABC” White Wines For Spring
With Spring in full bloom in the north, it’s time to embrace the moment as a perfect opportunity to expand your white wine horizons. Use the tried and true “ABC” approach — “Anything But Chardonnay.”
While there is a chardonnay white to fit every taste, it can be fun to explore white wine alternatives. Discovering new grape varieties delivers diverse aromas, zesty flavors and subtle textures to perk up jaded tastebuds.
Sharing Wine Stories On “The Eric McKenna Project”
Thank you to Eric McKenna for inviting me as his guest on the “Eric McKenna Project Video Podcast.” We had fun sharing a few glasses of wine while talking about some of the characters and mentors that I’ve had the privilege of meeting through my adventures with wine. Please tune in at “Eric McKenna Project Video Podcast” and cheers!
Crisp White Wines From Bourgogne Côtes D’Auxerre and Bourgogne Tonnerre
“I am reminded of spring by the quality of the air …It is a natural resurrection, an experience of immortality.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Feb. 24, 1852, from “Early Spring in Massachusetts”
Dave’s Wine Tips: Shrewd Buying Delivers Burgundies With Quality and Value.
When you love drinking red burgundies, giving up is just not option. Abiding passion must be served. Yet over the last decade as prices on even village wines have escalated to $60 or more per bottle, popular producers’ wines have sadly slipped out of reach in recent vintages. When you’re feeling the disappointment, just remember you’re not alone, and do no despair.
Winegrower Christian Binner and the Pleasures of Alsace Pinot Noir
An anonymous brick warehouse somewhere on the outer reaches of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York might seem an unlikely place to discover distinctive Alsace Pinot Noir wines. But when Isabelle Legeron, M.W.’s “2017 RAW WINE” Fair took place in the warehouse, talented Alsace grower Christian Binner’s reds provided a highlight as one hundred fifty producers from around the world poured samples of wines “grown naturally, made naturally.”