Seattle For Food and Wine Lovers
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Find the best of the best in Seattle, Washington!
Read MoreMust-Visit Tasting Rooms In Woodinville, A Unique Wine Destination Minutes From Seattle
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Tasting rooms galore!
Read MoreA French Italian Union: Roast Leg Of Lamb Paired With Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
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A wintertime pairing of a classic French-inspired dish with an enticing Italian red wine.
Read MoreA Taste Of Place: Puglia's Salice Salentino
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In Italy, head to the “heel” of the “boot,” a region ripe for exploration: Puglia’s Salice Salentino.
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Wow Your Guests On New Year's Eve With A Yuzu Mushroom Salad And Trentodoc Sparkling Wine
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A mushroom salad and wine pairing to make you go “wow’!
Read MoreHoliday Beef Stew Served With Côtes du Rhône Red Wine
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A wine and food combination that will see you through many cold winter nights!
Read MoreTaste The Flavors of Montecucco, Tuscany’s Up-and-Coming Wine Region
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The many charms of Montecucco seen through their culture of food and wine.
Read MoreLe Pianore's White Vegetable Lasagna
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A white vegetable lasagna, straight from the hills of Montecucco, Tuscany. Make it at home or, better yet, head to Le Pianore for many delicious meals including this lasagna!
Read MoreBernie's Bread, With Love From South Africa’s Waterford Estate Winery
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There’s nothing quite like the aroma of home-baked bread to get your appetite going. Straight from Waterford Estate Winery in Stellenbosch, South Africa, comes this easy-to-make, scrumptious bread!
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Terrific Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe
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If you only make Turkey once a year, this foolproof recipe can be your go-to.
Read MoreThanksgiving Wines For Procrastinators
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Throw the wine-pairing rules out the window and have a happy Thanksgiving day!
Read MoreThursday's Thrill: Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau Rosé Makes Its US Debut
/Read all the fun stories behind Beaujolais nouveau in my article on Grape Collective: “GEORGES DUBOEUF AND THE STORY BEHIND THE WORLD'S BIGGEST WINE PARTY, BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU DAY”
The artwork on the label is from an original, abstract oil painting called “Foolish Pleasure” by Chloe Meyer, winner of Duboeuf’s Artist Label Competition.
Why wait until Friday to kick off your fabulous weekend, especially when it’s the third Thursday of November? Today is Beaujolais Nouveau Day!! So get your Gamay Grape on and have fun celebrating the new wine of the 2018 harvest.
This year, Les Vins Georges Duboeuf releases its first ever nouveau rosé in the United States. The wine is a beautiful, rose-petal pink color and has vibrant aromas of strawberry and peach, along with citrusy notes of grapefruit and lemon. This dry, mouth-watering rosé offers plenty of fresh fruit flavors with a refreshing, lingering finish. Serve as an aperitif, or with a wide range of food: salads, cheeses, seafood, even the Thanksgiving turkey!
Beautiful Beaujolais, home of the Gamay grape.
Zabaglione Made With Moscato D'Asti Wine
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Don’t be afraid to show off your Italian flair and style, even if your last name doesn’t end in a vowel!
Read MoreThursday's Thrill: Apple Crisp With Gewurztraminer From Alsace
/A sweet and buttery, orange-scented apple crisp pairs so beautifully with Gewürztraminer wine from Alsace.
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Not Your Grandma's Sherry—Delicious Food Pairings With Dry Sherry
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This week is International Sherry week with many exciting events happening all over the world. Here’s a repost of my 2016 article about dry Sherry and a few (there are so many!) food pairing suggestions.
Read MoreSeafood Pasta With Tomatoes, Garlic And Lugana White Wine
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A simple seafood dish is a perfect accompaniment to the Lugana white wines of northern Italy.
Read MoreDoes South African Wine Have An Image Problem?
/South African Andre Shearer was a teetotaling, vegetarian male model who knew nothing about wine when he stumbled into the business with his brother Gary back in 1992. Today their company, Cape Classics, is the largest importer of South African wine in the United States.
Andre and I sat down to chat about this amazing journey and his continuing frustration from the lack of consumer interest in South African wine. He says that most of the time, “When people walk into a wine shop they are not looking for South Africa. If you hand sell them some, they’ll come back next week and say, ‘That wine was amazing,’ but if you don’t, they’ll look for Burgundy, Australia, New Zealand, Oregon, Portugal and so on. South Africa just doesn’t quite make it.” But as a tireless promoter of the many excellent South African wines, Andre believes that the future is looking bright.
Read the full interview with many entertaining stories of life in the wine importing business on Grape Collective.
The beautiful landscape of the South African winelands with its magnificent mountain ranges.
