Many of the questions we get from blog readers concern food and wine pairing. It’s a welcome trend that more and more people seem to be interested in having the best dining experience possible by matching up the “right” wine with the “right” dish.
Here’s a question that recently was posed: “Two of our favorite things to eat are ham and olives, but we haven’t had much success pairing them up with wine. Do you have any suggestions?”
Many of us are still in post-holiday diet mode, struggling to take off those pounds that magically appeared over the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons.
If you’re like me, you’ll finally get back to your ideal weight sometime around mid-November...yup, just in time to watch the scale go haywire again.
One of our regular Vinesse Today readers recently wrote in with a question directly related to this topic. So, before hitting the exercise bike, I thought I’d take a stab at answering it.
“Do I need to include the price of wine when figuring out how much to tip at a restaurant?”
We get that question—or a variation thereof—quite often. So, as people start to plan their summer vacations, I thought it would be a good time to re-visit the subject.
But first, a couple of tipping factoids...
In recent years, the wine clubs of Vinesse have featured a number of wines from California’s Lodi growing district.
Why? Because they’re good!
For many of those years, however, there was no “there” there when it came to Lodi. There was lots of vineyard land — as far as the eye could see in some places — but only a handful of wineries.
As the editor of The Grapevine, which is the official newsletter of the wine clubs of Vinesse, I often hear from readers who are planning trips to wine country.
In most cases, they’ve done their research on the wineries they want to visit, but are looking for recommendations on where to eat.
Here’s a question that came in recently, along with an answer that may be of interest to anyone who may be Napa-bound over the next few months...
QUESTION: Can you tell us which California winery was the first to be owned by a woman?
ANSWER: In Europe, there have been women in the wine business for centuries. It wasn’t common, but it wasn’t unheard of, either.
Vinesse specializes in helping wine lovers discover interesting wines. By sharing limited-production gems that generally don’t appear on the shelves of local stores, Vinesse has grown to become one of the largest and most respected wine club companies in the U.S.
From our base in Southern California, Vinesse cultivates relationships with some of the most respected winemakers in the world. These relationships are critical to supplying each of our ten wine clubs with exceptional wines from amazing boutique wineries.
In addition to sharing exceptional wine gems with our dedicated circle of members, Vinesse also offers wine collections, wine accessories and individual wine sales to wine lovers across the U.S.
