A few years ago, a friend of mine (Hi Freddy!) who represented sherries at the time, told me he had taken to coming home from work, sitting on the deck and having a bottle of sherry in an ice bucket, some olives and some cold sausage, and watching the sun go down.
It sounded good so [...]
Well it was probably a good thing I mortified my spirit by marathon tasting of cheap wine before the holiday. Yesterday (Xmas) we went through a couple of bottles of Cattier Blanc de blanc, a decent IGT, and a bottle of inexpensive but interesting Torrontes bubbly from argentina.
This is just a part of the kind of marathon tasting you have to do occasionally. Unfortunately this is for my January ‘10 Buck Challenge’ column so all the wine is quite inexpensive.
The good news is, this category is improving every year in quality. You need fear no longer the wedding [...]
Okay, back by popular demand!
You can find the recipe
here!
And FWIW Sairey and I actually drink it with skim milk and it’s still brilliant.
The rum used today was Flora de Cana 7 year old. (I actually like the 12 with this recipe better but it’s $15 more.)
Merry Eggnog to all! Happy Holidays! [...]
I had a bottle of Le Rive, a soave classico the other night, by azienda agricola suavia. I imagine it will get 92-94 points out of Wine Spectator. Nice wine. Soave it ain’t.
Essentially they moved the wine away from the crisp light palate of soave and toward New World Chardonnay palate by [...]
I tried two new wines last night, Rico Suter Cabernet Sauvignon/Petit Verdot and Wyndam Estate Bin 525 Shiraz Grenache.
Not sure what to make of the Suter wine (from S. Africa.) Firstly it’s 15% which is headed towards vermouth territory. Secondly they recommend serving at 16 degrees.
I’m all in favour of this [...]
Here’s the lineup from Jeff Rogstad today:
Forty Creek Rye is missing from the picture. Any of them make great gifts.
Under $15 - Pink: cheery easy drinking rose bubbly
$35ish - Collazzi, french blends (cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc) Italian grown. Incredibly nice structure, smooth balanced wine. And for less than price [...]
Bolla amarone, roast beef, roasted potato & yams for supper.
It was freezing here yesterday. So back to the basics.
Bolla’s Amarone isn’t the best in the world but it’s never bad. It might have been my mood or it might have been the roast but this one seemed a little thinner than I remember.
Still, [...]
Definitely a recipe worth repeating. The limes seem to be the key. Next time though, I’ll stew the hocks at least overnight.
Eating it cold today, it tastes great, but like all game, the texture is a little tougher than farm meat.
An overnight stewing of only the boar should fix [...]
Okay so here I am listening to David Grisman ‘Mandolin Abstractions’ with Andy Statman…
You know there is nothing more self indulgent than writing about music. It’s just a clever way of saying “I have WAY more interesting taste than YOU do!”. So Bleep! Reset.
Okay today I made one of my winter stews. [...]
