Our old family friend Donny (aka the Ump) was over, and there we were at the appetizers, enjoying cream cheese-stuffed mini peppers, tiny toast, cured meats, and cheese, when suddenly Donny’s face lit up. With a wide-eyed look of wine shock, he asked, “What is...
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You can make pudding out of anything!
“You can make pudding out of anything”, so said one of my esteemed bosses. So it is with wine, you can make it from strawberries, Dandelions, rice or even tomatoes! Nothing however comes close to grapes, they have the best balance, color, sugar, acid, tannin and juice for creating a flavorful and complex wine that can improve with age.
How to Untangle Burgundy 2
Learning about Burgundy’s geography and the association of wine with its region is essential to fully understanding it. The land. The major regions of Burgundy are located in the valleys and slopes west of the Saône River, and from north to south, they are the Côte...
How to Untangle Burgundy
The easy. It’s easy to purchase Burgundy in some respects because there is one red, Pinot Noir, and one white, Chardonnay. In truth, white Aligoté and red Gamay are grown in small amounts in Burgundy but are not primary grapes. The difficulty. The difficulty...
Are there one or two Rhônes?
The Rhone River region provides many styles of wonderful drink-now and age-worthy wines, including reds, whites, rosés, and fortified wines. The history, grapes, wine styles, and wine-making techniques have an immeasurable impact on French wine and the wine world. The 500-mile-long river flows from the Swiss...