Food

“When I wrote the book,” explained wine merchant Kermit Lynch, “I thought the oenologists were going to take over.”   We were chatting about Adventures on the Wine Route, Lynch’s seminal tour of France that can be found on every …

Italian food is much more than pasta and red sauce, and with The Glorious Vegetables of Italy food writer Domenica Marchetti introduces the reader to the genius that is the Italian way with vegetables.    One of today’s leading proponents …

Each year, the wine world eagerly awaits Wine Spectator’s “Top 100” list.   Since 1988, the magazine’s editors have looked back over the wines they’ve reviewed over the previous 12 months to rank the 100 wines that most impress them …

Great wine begins in the vineyard somewhere between January and March as the season matures.  If all goes well and the season ends as it did in 2013 in Sonoma, there will be a collective sigh of relief and another legacy of …

From Temecula to Napa Valley and beyond, this is the season of the year that can make or break a vineyard in California’s considerable wine industry.  The state has some 10% of the number of vineyards in the U.S. They …

Home for the holiday is a choice many Americans make.  The biggest travel date of the year is Thanksgiving Day as relatives and friends assemble with great food, wine and conversation, the centerpiece of this day to count your blessings. But …

“This democratization of wine is great,” asserted Jancis Robinson, one of the world’s leading wine authorities, over coffee one recent morning. Robinson was in Washington, D.C., to promote the seventh edition of The World Atlas of Wine, the indispensable reference book co-authored with …

Last week we brought you up to date on the big gains logged in by Temecula Wine Country and its 35 wineries.  There are a group of wineries in that district that are making great strides in moving up to …

With the weather turning quite chilly here on the east coast, I crave the simple pleasures of the season – the comforting aroma from a pot of soup simmering on the stove; an afternoon curled up near a fire with …

What do you want to do for Thanksgiving? my husband asks me. Not much, I say, since it’s just the two of us.  Violet Hill Farms sells those free-range, organic turkeys. We could try one, I guess. They’re probably pretty …