It is almost Halloween. Instead of wondering about how harvest is going, or what the wine makers might be doing with their grapes to make the wines better this year than they did last year, here’s a question somebody decided needed answering: What wine goes with what candy? Seriously? Is this what we’ve come to? […]
The fine folks over at thekitchn.com have posted a great little wine tasting experiment we can do to help us understand wine and food pairing basics. These are BASICS, but for many of us, just mastering these will vastly improve our ability to pair wines with food. So grab a white, a red, a lemon, […]
The other evening, my partner and I joined some friends at a dinner party in the City. (For those of you who don’t live in the San Francisco Bay Area, “The City” always refers to San Francisco in local parlance.) Our hosts requested that we bring the wine. Now that I’ve written a book about […]
On Sunday, August 14th, from Noon to 3pm. Andis Wines will be featuring a Semillon and Shrimp wine and food pairing. Thanks to their generosity, I will be there, too, selling and signing copies of Pour Me Another. Andis Wines is located at 11000 Shenandoah Road, about 5 minutes North East of Plymouth, California. Their tasting […]
