I am back again with a new edition of Thursday Sips & Nibbles, my regular column where I briefly highlight some interesting wine and food items that I have encountered recently. **********************************************************1) Soft shell crab from Chespeake Bay, king crab from Alaska, Dungeness crab from the Pacific Northwest, and Jonah crab from New England. Each North American crab species has its own delicious and appealing characteristics, and Turner’s Seafood Grill & Market celebrates them all with an annual, month-long...
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Is wine made in the vineyard or the cellar?On our first winery visit in the Chianti Classico region, we met Alessandro Gallo, the Direttore of Castello D'Albola, He spoke about the significant increase in the quality of Chianti Classico wines in the last fifteen years or so. That change is due to numerous factors but Alessandro had his own idea about what was the most significant change that led to the increased quality, a change of a particular...
Thursday, 24 May 2012
I am back again with a new edition of Thursday Sips & Nibbles, my regular column where I briefly highlight some interesting wine and food items that I have encountered recently. **********************************************************1) The 5th Annual Strawberry Dessert Festival will be held from June 1 – July 1 at 40+ area restaurants around Boston, and will feature special strawberry desserts, a portion of the proceeds for which will benefit Mass Farmers Markets. Desserts being offered range from strawberry shortcake to a strawberry...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
"Chianti is simpler path of Sangiovese." --Danielle Cernilli, the founder and editor of chief of Gambero RossoTomorrow, I fly off to Florence, Italy, the first stop on my journey to the Chianti Classico region of Tuscany. As part of a media trip, hosted by the Consorzio del Vino Chianti and Balzac Communications, I and four other writers will be exploring Chianti Classico during the Chianti Classico è, a ten day festival celebrating the wines and...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
As I mentioned in my Rant yesterday, I attended a "food pairing seminar" led by Drink Ribera, showcasing Spanish wines from the Ribera del Duero region. The event was held at Taberna de Haro, an excellent Spanish restaurant in Brookline. I had some concerns that the event would fail to reach its potential, that pairing Spanish wines with Spanish cuisine was too obvious a choice and that it would have been more educational if a different cuisine had...
Monday, 21 May 2012
Today, I am attending a wine tasting and food pairing seminar led by Drink Ribera, showcasing Spanish wines from the Ribera del Duero region. As I love Spanish wines, I am very interested in this event and tasting some of the latest wines from this area. The event is being held at Taberna de Haro, an excellent Spanish restaurant in Brookline, and Chef/Owner Deborah Hansen is sure to create some delicious Spanish dishes to accompany the wine.But Drink Ribera has missed a significant opportunity, especially considering they are holding a food pairing...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Sometimes on vacation I just want to enjoy a dinner out, to not take notes or photos of my meal. Yet sometimes that meal is so impressive that I still need to write about it, even though I can't provide as much detail as maybe I desire. The restaurant though should be recognized for its high quality, even if that mention is brief.While in Louisville, we dined out one evening with my friend Fred and his wife, selecting a restaurant that none of us...
Saturday, 19 May 2012
After a long, fun and exciting day at the Kentucky Derby, the first time I had ever attended that grand event, we all traveled to a local restaurant, Corbett's, for dinner. My good friend Fred had chosen the venue, making reservations months before, and it offered a special Derby prix-fixe menu. Fred had also arranged for wine pairings with our dinner.The restaurant was opened in December 2007 by Chef S. Dean Corbett. It is housed...
Friday, 18 May 2012
As I mentioned previously, most bourbons are blends, and that applies even to "Straight" bourbons. How can that be so? Though it may seem confusing, it really is not. Legally, a straight bourbon cannot have any additional flavors, colorings or other additives added to it. But, you can still blend bourbons from different barrels, as long as no additional items have been added to any of those bourbons. So the "straight" refers more to its purity rather...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
I am back again with a new edition of Thursday Sips & Nibbles, my regular column where I briefly highlight some interesting wine and food items that I have encountered recently.**********************************************************1) On June 5, at 6:30pm, Legal Sea Foods will team up with Bryan Parker, winemaker at Terlato Family Vineyards, to host a four-plus-course wine dinner at the Prudential Center location. Each course will feature Legal Sea Foods’ signature cuisine paired with selections from this vineyard. Guests will...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough."--Mark Twain.Bourbon permeates the history, culture and economy of Kentucky. You can travel the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, visiting distilleries, or walk the Urban Bourbon Trail, stopping at a number of Louisville restaurants and bars. Approximately 1.7 million people have visited one of their bourbon distilleries during the last five years. Most restaurants...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
(Today, I present a guest post from Cynette, a content writer for Wine Cellar Innovations. As you likely know, I have been giving rave reviews to the new English translations of The Drops of God, a Japanese wine comic. In 2009, the Japanese comic was adapted into a live action television series that ran for 9 episodes. Obviously this brief series had to omit much of what can be found in the hundreds of issues of the comic. In...
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