4 Course White Wine Dinner Pairings.Pick dry or sweet/fruity wine.Check out my new “White Wine Pairing Guide” to help you pair wine by dryness or sweetness to a recipe, cheese or fruit. Pick a dry or sweet wine and pairing it with a complimentary food.Check out this new simple guide. This chart outlines 4 courses paired with your choice of white dry or sweet/fruity […]
There are a lot of things I love; wine, delicious food, quality time with my family, travel, a great deal, and useful FREE stuff. I have been using Amazon for years and I really enjoy shopping for deals, gifts and their free offers. Make sure you check out my list of free wine phone APPs below. They really do make picking […]
There are only 97 days until Christmas!If you are trying to figure out what to give your friends who love wine, I’m here to help. I’ve created a wine lovers wish list to help you with your gift search. No Snuggies, ties or fruit cake please.If your friends don’t have good wine glasses that’s a great place […]
Easy ways to remember interesting stuff about wine. I’m always looking for an easy way to learn something new. That usually involves some sort of crazy image in my mind that I can recall at a moments notice. The following are short info snip-its that are easy to remember. Read them once and you will know them forever because of the […]
Tired of or don’t like really sweet wines? Dislike big red wines with lots of tannins or watery Merlots? Have you drank so much Pinot Noir you’re in a rut? Looking for a new easy to drink fruity red with a smooth finish? If your answer is yes then I have the wine for you […]
Wine pairing made easy!Check out my new “White to Red Wine Pairing Guide”. This is my first “Easy Chart” in a series to help pair wine by dryness or sweetness to a recipe, cheese or fruit. Pick a dry or sweet wine and pairing it with a complimentary food.Check out this new simple guide. This chart outlines; Champagne & Appetizers, White Wine & Soup, […]
The perfect dessert wine.Every once in a while I have a craving for an exceptional sweet wine to drink as a digestif or serve with a decant dessert such as a chocolate lava cake. My daughter Christen knows this and gave me a 2012 bottle of Elysium wine as a gift. And I have to tell […]
Watch out Willamette Valley – you have competition!I was in the mood to try new wines today so I took advantage of Total Wine’s free Saturday wine tasting. Out of the six wines I tasted I found three that were delicous.My favorite was a California Montoya Pinot Noir for $16.99 a bottle. It was pleasantly fruit […]
Say NO to off-shore drilling in Va Beach.Say YES to Clean Energy.We need to stop off-shore drilling from ever happening in Va Beach. I saw in Pensacola how the Gulf oil spill killed marine life, the beach, tourism, jobs, and property values. Don’t support off-shore drilling, support clean energy, such as wind, solar and wave power like […]
Here is my quick & easy guide to remembering a few wines.Associate a wine with a celebrity. Port wines are fortified, but Bill may spike them with something other than alcohol. I like this Taylor Tawny Port, it has a medium body with a tawny color, rich with flavors of smooth caramel and nutty aroma.