'Wine Pairing'


My dinner with an Australian born winemaker now living in California. He’s quite the Cupcake.

Tonight I had the pleasure of meeting Adam Richardson who is the winemaker at Cupcake Vineyards in Livermore, Calif.

Dinner was at…

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The five First Great Growths of Bordaux (Médoc)
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Tucson restaurant news

On Monday, Jan. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. Tucson’s one named-wonder Janos Wilder hosts “Women of Bordeaux…

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What’s a cholive? It’s like what it sounds…a chocolate olive. Not a chocolate covered olive but a chocolate olive, a cocktail chocolate that pairs well with cocktails or coffee laced with liquors and spirits. Cholives are a bit decadent…

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pics113009 007My Thanksgiving dinner got pared down to three people…another friend plus her husband who recently came home from the hospital.

I prepared some food which I brought to her house and while it was heating, two of us were…

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Are you looking for just the right wine to pair with your Thanksgiving turkey?  Do you need an expert to tell you exactly…

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Silver Palate’s Chicken Marbella is a popular search term. It’s a classic recipe that never goes out of style. Just last week, someone emailed me wanting to know what wine to pair with Chicken Marbella.

I asked the expert —

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Apparently pairing wine with oysters is not an easy task but one that Jon Rowley works hard at every year and those food experts who are lucky enough to be the judges are glad that he does.

Who wouldn’t…

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Today, two people asked me what wine to pair with ham. I’m no wine expert but I know who is. I asked Yvonne Foucher, owner of CataVinos for her advice and this is what she shared. For…

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The Beaujolais nouveau circus is coming. This young, light red wine boasts the biggest marketing scheme on the planet on the third Thursday of November every year.

Beaujolais nouveau is a lighter red wine produced from gamay grapes grown in…

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SEATTLE–Not many wines go with oysters. That is why panels of 12 prominent oyster-loving writers, restaurateurs, retailers, and oyster growers will convene at the Water Grill in Los Angeles onApril 22, at Sutro’s at the Cliff House in San…

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