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- Where Does Wine Lingo Come From?
Mike Steinberger has an interesting piece at Slate about how the modern wine tasting note, the "cherry-and-berry" style to use his term, came about. I have struggled to make my tasting notes readable, both here and in print, but I grew up in the "list...
- Spit Like A Pro
A co-worker pointed me toward this Slate article about professional wine-spitting technique. I am not a great spitter, but I can feel Steinberger's piece tugging at my obsessive streak....
- Wine Spectator Is Arrogant
I know. It's a shock. But take a deep breath, and I'll explain. In the current issue, they've printed a letter from a reader who blames Wine Spectator for promoting monstrous wine lists, and he goes on to decry the trend. "I am not happy...
- Guest Contributor Derrick Schneider...
The current issue of The Wine News features an article by me about old vine wine (primarily Zinfandel). Longtime readers will note the irony of me writing about California wines. I tend to agree with the sentiment that California wine is more about...
- Wine And Cheese
So I've been advocating white wine with most cheeses for a little while now, which goes against the normally accepted pairings. Melissa and I tried this after I saw a couple of good sources argue for it, and we've been pretty happy with our experiments....
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Red Wine and Cheese
The food world went ballistic last month when news broke that a forthcoming study debunked the notion that wine and cheese go well together.
Over at Slate, Mike Steinberger tries to calm the panic by looking at a draft of the study. Yes, he says, the study shows that cheese diminished the character of each wine. But the better wines still tasted better than the awful wines, he says.
I've been opting for white wine with cheese for years now, but Steinberger gives red wine lovers some hope in his article.
- Where Does Wine Lingo Come From?
Mike Steinberger has an interesting piece at Slate about how the modern wine tasting note, the "cherry-and-berry" style to use his term, came about. I have struggled to make my tasting notes readable, both here and in print, but I grew up in the "list...
- Spit Like A Pro
A co-worker pointed me toward this Slate article about professional wine-spitting technique. I am not a great spitter, but I can feel Steinberger's piece tugging at my obsessive streak....
- Wine Spectator Is Arrogant
I know. It's a shock. But take a deep breath, and I'll explain. In the current issue, they've printed a letter from a reader who blames Wine Spectator for promoting monstrous wine lists, and he goes on to decry the trend. "I am not happy...
- Guest Contributor Derrick Schneider...
The current issue of The Wine News features an article by me about old vine wine (primarily Zinfandel). Longtime readers will note the irony of me writing about California wines. I tend to agree with the sentiment that California wine is more about...
- Wine And Cheese
So I've been advocating white wine with most cheeses for a little while now, which goes against the normally accepted pairings. Melissa and I tried this after I saw a couple of good sources argue for it, and we've been pretty happy with our experiments....