You just brought home a mixed case of wine from the store. Already, things are looking good. But what if you could scan each bottle as you unpack it and have the information appear in a database [...]
An email came in from a reader last week from Centcom in Iraq–not the usual place of people needing wine help! It turns out that the author, Bob Krumm of Nashville, TN, is a wine geek [...]
Everyone’s looking back! The Telegraph kicked things off with an article last week about wine trends of this decade — “the Noughties.” The signal trend highlighted by [...]
Wave On presenta un nuovo evento dedicato alla vela. Si chiama TOD GRAND PRIX.10 ed è una manifestazione sportiva internazionale che si sviluppa nell'Alto Adriatico, tra Italia e Slovenia.Una [...]
Scroll down for English versionIl sapore di questi sformatini è dolciastro e piacevole. Io ho deciso di smorzarlo con dello yogurt bianco ma si può ometterlo e eventualmente accompagnare lo [...]
The other day I talked about micro-blogging and mega-blogging and shared my view that new forms of social media, including micro-blogging, are complementary to blogging. We’ve seen [...]
The other day I talked about micro-blogging and mega-blogging and shared my view that new forms of social media, including micro-blogging, are complementary to blogging. We’ve seen [...]
The other day I talked about micro-blogging and mega-blogging and shared my view that new forms of social media, including micro-blogging, are complementary to blogging. We’ve seen [...]
The other day I talked about micro-blogging and mega-blogging and shared my view that new forms of social media, including micro-blogging, are complementary to blogging. We’ve seen [...]
SIPPED: number crunching Wineries that advertise in Wine Spectator have their wines score better–but only by less than one point. Such is the finding in the lead article in the new issue [...]
Quando si parla di Barolo non si può riassumere né essere concisi. Non è difficile, oltretutto, perdersi in un contesto ampio, complesso, fatto di micro-zone, di interpretazioni stilistiche [...]
Gino D’Acampo (no, non lo conosco nemmeno io). Di fronte alla possibilità di migliorare (?) il suo risotto, degli argomenti culturali e religiosi che sconsigliano di mangiare topi se [...]
The weather is rapidly changing: one day, fall; the next day, snow! Here are two natural wines from France that have you covered. Arretxea, Irouleguy 2005 about $20 This hearty red pairs well [...]
What’s happening in this glass? The winemaker practices minimal intervention and uses no sulfur. So one theory is refermentation, which can come from excessive heat exposure. Or it could [...]
SIPPED: user feedback [Yellow Tail], the ubiquitous Australian wine, wants your help! The producer has decided to open the naming of their new, unoaked Chardonnay up to readers. The contest may [...]
The holiday wine class is now only a week away! Grab one of the remaining seats and join us on 12/10 in NYC to taste through seven great wines for gifting and drinking! Here are ten reasons to [...]
In “The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World,” Michael Pollan traces the relationship of humans and four plants: the apple, the tulip, cannabis, and the potato. [...]
A few weeks back Wayne and I spent three days visiting Palm Springs. The weather was hot (in a good way), and the weekend was set against the backdrop of a piercingly clear blue sky. We [...]
Over Thanksgiving, I finally read Raffi Khatchadourian’s 10,000 word essay in the Nov 23 issue of the New Yorker. Entitled “The Taste Makers,” Khatchadourian tracks a flavor [...]
SPIT: invitations. SPIT: glassware All the talk this long weekend was about the White House state dinner. And perhaps to the surprise of wine lovers, it wasn’t about the two typos and at [...]
Questa è l’ altra tortona di Martino, fatta proprio per la cena del suo compleanno, il 27! La ricetta è una ricetta da treccia, ma io l’ ho fatta in un unico vermicione e farcita [...]
Per aperitivi e antipasti Natalizi originali potete preparare questi datteri e o prugne secche, farcendoli con del foie gras. Denocciolate 12 datteri o prugne. Farciteli con mezzo cucchiaino da [...]
A Rimini Fiera 34.212 visitatori provenienti da trenta Paesi di tutto il mondo. In un frangente economico di generale difficoltà, raggiunti gli obiettivi strategici: SIA GUEST 2009 ha [...]
Right now, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Dr. Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India, is being feted at a state dinner! The Obamas brought in chef Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit in New York to cook [...]
In our recent discussion of wine education for kids, two readers thoughtfully provided translations of an Italian rhyming verse (”Filastrocca del vino”) that is used in some Italian [...]