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Calling all wine dorks and food geeks, I mean enthusiasts! The Dallas Wine and Food Festival kicks off tomorrow in venues across the city. This is a lively, fun and educational event featuring local and national culinary talent, where foodies and wine lovers can enjoy movies, entertaining seminars, cooking demonstrations, wine tastings and chef dinners while [...]
Cork Pops & Italian Gavi If you’ve never opened a bottle of wine with a screwless Cork Pops wine opener, you are really missing out on some fun. I’ve been using one for years now and really enjoy how easy it makes opening a bottle without damaging the cork. You simply “inject” the cork with the [...]
Now here’s a cool tool: Natalie MacLean’s Wine & Food Matcher. To get started, simply select the food, like “chicken” then another option to get a little more targeted. The Wine Matcher then generates options by varietal, and other beverages as well like beer, spirits and even coffee and tea. Natalie MacLean’s Wine & Food Matcher is super user [...]
Love it like Dolce Vita Marco Wiles has done it again. His Dolce Vita (500 Westheimer, 713.520.8222) is an oft-suggested favorite. (And if you go, I recommend the talegio pizza with arugula, pears and truffle oil, and the parsley and pancetta salad.) Now Wiles has a new gig, Poscol (1609 Westheimer, 713.529.2797). What it is is a cozy wine [...]
A Sure-Bet Shiraz Here’s an Aussie wine we enjoyed recently–Yangarra Estate Vineyards 2005 McLaren Vale Shiraz. Not overly fruity, this wine is delightfully spicy and full, with a medium finish. $24.
We’re excited about Gruet bubbly. Ordered in some independent restaurants of late, establishments with interesting wine lists, this sparkler is delightful, well balanced and an excellent bargain. What may surprise some is that this wine is produced in New Mexico by a Champagne producing family from France. Their wines have received accolades from the major [...]
Don’t Forget the Bubbly The folks at Austin?s Twin Liquors recommend these sparklers this holiday season: Prosecco Borgo Sanleo (Italy), Perrier Jouet Fleur (France), Taittinger NV (France), Piper Sonoma Brut (California) and Segura Viudas Cava (Spain). www.twinliquors.com Antinori’s Castello Della Sala 2005 Chardonnay On a whim, we picked up a bottle of Antinori’s Castello Della [...]
A Good Burger Wine Fort Ross Symposium, Sonoma, 2002 is a refreshingly interesting combination of pinotage and pinot noir grapes. On the nose of the brick-colored red wine is tobacco, spice and caramel. This smooth, smoky and nicely balanced wine paired excellently with a mesquite grilled burger. Sherry as Apertif For your next aperitif, try [...]
A Bright Italian White Ruffino Orvieto Classico, 2005 ($9), affordably priced and widely available, is bright and crisp and just the thing to cut through the creamy sauce of the chicken featured in Menu of the Month. A light straw yellow, on the nose and palate there was pear, peach and citrus. And while it [...]
