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1 month ago

in Cooking with wine on Another Wine Blog
What kind of food do you have in mind that might require a quality wine for cooking? I'm having trouble thinking of something--but then you know a lot more about food than me. ;)
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jpower When I braise lamb I usually use a decent Côtes du Rhône, or something similar. Nothing really good, but drinkable. The same with something like a port/cherry sauce. Go too cheap with port and your sauce can taste like cough syrup. About the only thing I can think of off-hand that I use really good stuff in would be a sabayon.

8 months ago

in Palate Shock on Another Wine Blog
New Zealand FTW! Anything of note from Waiheke or Central Otago?
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Joe Chuck, I really found little of note in the whole tasting. In fact, I only enjoyed two wines out of the entire group. I will be posting about both soon.

8 months ago

in Comcast ate my blog! on Another Wine Blog
This is an old article, but a friend just pointed it out to me the other day--a CNN/Money profile of Fred Franzia, owner of Charles Shaw. Seems like an interesting guy...

http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/05/news/companies/...

And congratulations on being rescued from Comcast hell. God knows we've had problems with our HD ever since getting it hooked up.
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Joe Thanks Chuck. Good article.

1 year ago

in Plume Bleue - Great Bargain Wine for Grilling on Another Wine Blog
Random request for a review--

I was in Target the other day buying moving supplies, and I happened to stop by a bin they had labeled "12 wines for less than $12" or something like that. Figuring that I'd need some wine after trucking back and forth to the storage unit all day, I bought a couple--thanks to the marketing wizards, mainly because I thought the labels were nifty (and hey, the price wasn't bad). I haven't cracked the white yet, but I've enjoyed a Chilean Cabernet Franc/Carmenère blend (84/16) called "(oops)", apparently after the fact that Chilean Carmenère plantings were long assumed to be Merlot until the 1990s. I figure if it's at Target in the $12 bin, it should be easy enough for all your readership to find! ;)

http://www.oopswines.com/web/wine_06_cabernet_f...

1 year ago

in The Family That Drinks Together… on Another Wine Blog
When I was 12 or so, my parents started letting me have a small glass of wine with dinner sometimes (not all the times that they drank with dinner, just some of them--but it was at arbitrary times, not "every Thanksgiving" or something). I think that was an appropriate age to start on such a course: any earlier, and you're still a little kid who thinks half the stuff you taste is disgusting. Also, it makes for a nice little bit of "adulthood" for an adolescent.

1 year ago

in Sliders Recipe on Another Wine Blog
This from the guy who won't eat Skyline . . . ;)

1 year ago

in Viognier on Another Wine Blog
Joe--I recommend you check out Virginia viognier. I've especially enjoyed viognier from White Hall Vineyards in Crozet, VA, a town about 10 miles outside of Charlottesville. It's my understanding that the Monticello AVA, for whatever reason, is well-suited to the grape, and area wineries do a good job with it.
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