The Paso Robles Wine Country is one of the fastest growing premium vineyard and winery regions in California.
If you have even a single entrepreneurial bone in your body, you’ve likely pondered New York’s coming black market in Trans Fats. Now that such fats are banned in the Big Apple, I foresee tremendous black market potential for some old favorites - foods high in hydrogenated oils such as cookies, chips, pizzas, hamburgers and […]
‘Tis the season to eat, drink, and be merry, but not all of us six billion souls on the planet can eat, drink, and be merry. For the past two years, wine and food bloggers, a merry bunch who eat and drink a lot, have done an online fundraiser for those less fortunate. Last year […]
Before I traveled the wine road for a living, I commuted to cubicleland on a city bus. Ask anyone who has spent a few minutes in a bus stop to describe its scent and you’re unlikely to hear the word "appetizing". More likely, they’d describe the lingering personal hygiene limitations of its unfortunate nighttime dewllers […]
“…the ‘88 very impressive, still immature, violet-tinged; nose crammed with fruit and mouthwatering acidity, opening up, like Concorde, reaching cruising altitude, attaining rich fragrance and depth.” **(**) - MB
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I keep turning up quotes on art museum wall panels that seem to apply to wine. Can this be coincidence?
“A place can never be defined, change is not the screen of science, but of poetry, art and myth.”- Bela Hamvas
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Okay, I confess! My favorite restaurants are in France, San Francisco and New York with one exception - Harvest Vine. In my opinion, Harvest Vine is the best restaurant in Seattle by far. Walk into Harvest Vine and you feel you are in the Basque country. No atmospherics, just the real thing. Specializing in tapas […]
Much to the disappointment of Winemonkey, I did not bring any wine back from Paris. What of this ludicrousness you ask? Well, my fellow Americans, have you looked at the exchange rate lately? One Euro is equal to approximately 1.33 U.S. dollars. Although it is certainly a romantic notion - returning with bottles of […]
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Seems like a storm is brewing in the other down under of New Zealand. A region famed for its bright, citrusy Sauvignon Blancs is having a bit of a scandal more associated with Robert Parker and the Bordeaux Boys.
According to a number of kiwi news sources, it seems that the 2006 Wither Hills Sauvignon […]
“One might have thought it could cope with fromages affines, but it didn’t.” At best **** (just). I think it worth requoting my Jayne Mansfield analogy: ‘mean, moody and magnificent’. MB
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