Keeping with the Latin theme we moved on to the 2010 De Martino "Legado" Chardonnay from Chile. Scott prepared a chicken salad with peaches and cucumber with a mint and white wine vinaigrette. The salad was sensational and the wine was a winner, too.
I spend a lot of time traveling. This past year, I've been to Italy, Napa, Sonoma, Oregon, Georgia and Florida and I'm sure a few other places as well. Of all t...
I recently visited St. Augustine, Florida, a place where history reaches out to touch you at every turn. I stayed at the delightful Casablanca Inn, home of the ...
I have to confess that I'm a sucker for corned beef and cabbage. I could probably eat it every day and not grow tired of it. My plate arrived with a couple of generous slices of corned beef that fell apart at the touch of a fork
We went back to Australia for the fifth wine of the day, 2010 Graffigna Malbec reserve. At $13 this wine spun some heads in our group. The color was deep dark and I picked up chocolate and cherries on the nose.
Shoppers are invited to stroll through Old Town Temecula among twinkling lights and Holiday music while shopping, saving and sampling food.
November 26, 201...
In 1969, Dick and Nancy Ponzi moved from Los Gatos, in what would become the Silicon Valley, to Beaverton, bought a strawberry farm and planted 12 acres of wine grapes. Even though they had little to no experience in the wine industry, they dreamed of producing world class Pinot Noir.
You can hardly visit the Willamette Valley without visiting some of its famed wineries and that's exactly what I did. Starting at Montinore Estate, one of the state's largest biodynamic/organic wine producers, we visited the stunning tasting room and then stepped into the vineyards for a visit with winemakers Ben Thomas and Stephen Webber.
"Inspired by the ancient traditions of Persia, Rooted in the modern expressions of California." You'll find those words of the back of every bottle of wine from...
There's an old expression that goes "it takes a lot of beer to make good wine." Tongue in cheek, McPherson added "a six pack goes into every case we make."
