A press release arrived in my email Wednesday that made my day.
It made my day for two reasons:
David Lynch is a James Beard Award-winning sommelier, and in the September issue of Bon Appetit magazine, he writes what is, in effect, a eulogy for the massive restaurant wine list.
You can read the entire column here, but in summary, Lynch contends that diners are much better served by a well-selected, single-page list than a thick book that can span 25 pages or more.
We have a special section on this blog devoted to food and wine pairing. And we often write about the “connection” between wine and music. (Check out the “Editor’s Journal” archives for our recent countdown of the Top 10 Wines Songs of All-Time.)
Concannon Vineyard recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of Petite Sirah as a varietal wine.
Petite Sirah... a.k.a. P.S.... a.k.a. “Pets”... has been around a lot longer than that, of course. It’s just that it didn’t always go by that name, nor was it bottled as a varietal wine; vintners often used it to “beef up” their red blends. Click here for nine fascinating facts about Petite Sirah.
In less than a decade, Dutton Estate Winery has emerged as one of the most dependable makers of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in a region known for those varietals—Sonoma County’s Russian River Valley.
The estate is situated just outside the charming town of Sebastopol. Once a dominant apple-growing region, Sebastopol now is a destination hideaway and home to the winery’s founders, Joe and Tracy Dutton.
Wine is not mentioned in the name of the new steakhouse at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
The restaurant, which is located in the space formerly occupied by Rare 120, is called 35 Steaks + Martinis. You can view the menu here.
Martinis are not the only libations one can sip at 35, however. There’s also a very good wine list that includes the kind of full-throttle Cabernet Sauvignon choices you’d expect from a serious steakhouse.
One of the things that makes wine so mystical and magical is its scarcity.
Only so many bottles of a certain variety from a certain vintage by a certain winery are made, and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.
This is true whether a million cases were produced...or just a few hundred. Like life itself, wine is finite.
A special section on Chile, distributed in last Friday’s USA Today, included this article on the country’s wine industry.
If you don’t have time to check it out, here are a few bullet points...
The No. 2 song on the Vinesse list of the Top 10 Wine Songs of All-Time has a rather strange back story—strange, that is, until you consider that it happened in show biz, where anything can and probably will happen, given enough time.
It has been a while since we shared a favorite recipe here on Vinesse Today, so let’s right that wrong right now.
I like to cook, but I don’t have a lot of time for it. So when people ask me what kind of dishes I especially enjoy preparing, my typical answer is, “Quick ones.”
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