Tagged With: chardonnay
Some Chicken Dishes More Fun if You Imagine Foghorn Leghorn Reacting to the Preparation, Bloggers Find
Have either of us ever mentioned that Grape Envy Guy loves to gill? We have? Well, let me reiterate it again. GEG loves to grill. Because of that, whenever the weather allows some of our menu planning centers around what can be grilled. This sometimes lead to some great meals, but the grilled/smoked flavors can … Continue reading
Green Cardinal Signals New Stealthy Assassain Species, “Cardinalis ninjitsu”
Some time ago, I visited Cardinal Point Winery with some friends. Grape Envy Guy wasn’t with me, and I wasn’t really in a note-taking kind of mood, so I never blogged my visit. I did, however, bring a bottle home with me: the ’11 Green. The wine struck me as unusual, and I didn’t know … Continue reading
Arizona Wine Notes Baffle Bloggers with Notes Like “Dusty Saguaro” and “Wet Javelina”
Some nights we cook really impressive food like deconstructed beef wellington – most of the time, however, we eat far simpler dishes that involve less expensive ingredients and come together far faster. One of out favorite go to meals is to make a frittata. One that we made recently was a green eggs and ham … Continue reading
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This – Chile Willy Walks Into a Gooseberry Bush…
In the fall, we were invited to participate in a tasting of Chilean carmenere paired with curry. We were so intrigued by the unexpected pairing, that we readily agreed to participate. We had a great time, so when the Wines of Chile folks asked us to participate in another tasting, we found making the decision … Continue reading
Bill Nye Develops Carbon Sequestration Technology Using Booze, Bubbles, and Bloggers
Everyone involved had so much fun with last year’s blind tasting of Virginia sparkling wines that Frank Morgan decided to organize a second annual tasting. This year, in addition to Frank, Paul and Warren, and Grape Envy Guy and I (the holdovers from last year), the tasters included Allan, Melissa, Anthony, Megan (who writes about … Continue reading
Sommelier Mistakes “Swiss Chard” For White Wine That Makes Watches and Won’t Take Sides
I’ve never been a big fan of chardonnay, and oaked chard have been the most challenging for me. That said, I keep trying these wines, buying occasional bottles, and experimenting with them. I’ve found that, as is true with many bigger wines, I typically prefer these wines with food. Given that I keep an eye out for … Continue reading
Maxim Magazine Deems Dimunitive Virginia Winemaker Far Too Manly for Bloggers to Pair His Wines With Quiche
Many people only think about bubbly wine for New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, and “special” occasions like weddings and anniversaries. By all means, open a bottle of fizzy wine on these occasions, but I think that opening the bottle of bubbly can make for a special occasion. There are many different types of sparkling wines … Continue reading
Trenchcoat-Clad Figure Exhorts Passers-By “Bubbles Ain’t Free, Pal, But I Can Cut You One Heck of a Deal”
This month’s theme for Wine Blogging Wednesday is value sparkling wines (i.e., wines with bubbles that cost less than $25). I’m a fan of sparkling wines, so I knew I wanted to participate in this one. As a VA wine lover and local wine advocate, you might expect that I’d talk about a local bottle … Continue reading
Virginia Selected for Salmon and Wine Cage Fight
So, if you follow us on facebook (and if you don’t, you should), you may have seen Grape Envy Guy crowd sourcing wine recommendations for a meal of roasted salmon and brussel sprouts a few weeks ago. We got a lot of interesting suggestions, but, in the end, it was all for naught because the … Continue reading
Convex Bottom of Sparkling Wine Bottle Helps Couple Find Nemo (in Sticky Rice)
Lenn Thompson and I worked out an interstate wine trade a while back. He wanted to get his hands on some Linden wines, and they don’t ship, and we were interesting in trying some of the high quality NY wines he’s so happy to talk about. Every so often, we look towards these wines when … Continue reading
Marine Biologists Discover Wine Amazing With Seafood, Pair It With Mermaid
Sometimes when you taste a wine, you just note that you like it and want to take it home. Other times you may think of a particular person with whom you want to share the bottle. At still other times, you taste a wine and think of a specific food pairing. The last was definitely … Continue reading
Treehouse of Horror Lives as Bloggers have “The Shinning”
You may remember that we worked out a VA for NY wine trade with Lenn Thompson from the New York Cork Report. One of the bottles he included in the selection he gave us was the 2010 Coalescence from Shinn Estate Vineyards on the North Fork of Long Island, a blend of chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, … Continue reading
Blind Blogging Mice Fall Into Wine Tank, Saved by Bobbing Corks
Have you ever done a blind tasting? This is when you wrap wine bottles from a given category (e.g., merlot) in brown paper bags or tinfoil and pour samples without knowing which winery (or vintage) the wine is from. The idea is that by removing the labels from view, you can also remove preconceptions the … Continue reading
Scientists Find it Next to Impossible to Confuse “Rock Star” and Neil Diamond
As regular readers know, we’ve been making a concerted effort to get the bottles we’re not excited about of our shelves – usually by drinking them. On such bottle was an ’08 Black Rock Chardonnay Reserve from Wintergreen Winery. We bought this bottle because it struck us as a fairly middle of the road, table … Continue reading
Notorious Anti-Oak Blogger Softens Stance, Says ‘Maybe I Do Like Wood’ (heh)
When we finally made it back to Tarara Winery to do a tasting with Jordan, one of his biggest surprises was that I didn’t completely hate his chardonnay. As a regular reader of this blog, he’s come to realize that I’m not a huge fan of this grape and that when I do drink chard … Continue reading
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