Most white wines will fit nicely on a lovely wine rack and, until being poured into your glass, will go nowhere else. You wouldn’t usually consider cellaring a white, or so I thought. Turns out it depends on the varietal, what vintage, and who made it.
For example, certain Chardonnays and Rieslings are deemed suitable [...]
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The blinds are pulled to keep out the hot sun from our living room. We stay inside from 12-2 (11-3 if we can) to avoid the heat. Yes, we love summer, from dawn until lunchtime and mid-afternoon until sunset. We also do not cook during the months of July and August.
I love cooking, you understand, [...]
I may have mentioned a prejudice against chardonnay before. Perhaps this stems from the fact that it is such a ubiquitous offering at dinner parties and on wine lists, becoming almost synonymous in restaurants with ‘white wine’, the way chablis once did. Still, thinking that popularity meant great wine I tried. And I tried. With one exception [...]
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Also tagged Australia, sparkling, vanilla, wine rack, wine rack store, wine racks
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So I was browsing the shelves of the virtual wine shop looking to stock up the wine rack with another assortment of yummy flavors when I came across a white Burgundy.
White Burgundy? Isn’t Burgundy supposed to be red?
I had stumbled across yet another hole in my Swiss cheese wine education and had to start researching [...]
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Hot on the heels of a recent article comparing different types of chardonnays comes this review of a Naked Grape offering. I have enjoyed their wine before, since oak is not my thing. Sometimes a bit of woodiness blends well with the existing flavors, but mainly I prefer no wood. Chardonnay has often suffered, in [...]
A food pairing recommendation which leads to a Chardonnay will often qualify, indicating ‘Californian’ or ‘American’ versus ‘French’ Chardonnay or some other country. To my mind, the most popular Chardonnays around here derive from California and Australia, a perspective which originates from many sessions spent flipping through the pages of TASTE Magazine.
The Wine Spectator [...]
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While bread provides a neutral flavor to clear the palate between selections from your wine rack, there are some wines which go especially well with particular breads. The list of bread types is long, from sweet to savory; yeasty to caky; even muffins and donuts. I’m thinking particularly about hot cross buns, those sweet eggy buns [...]
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Also tagged BC wines, bread, Cabernet Franc, Riesling, wine rack, wine rack store, wine racks
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My best friend gets married tomorrow and all has been busy and bright. Finally this afternoon we found a few hours of uninterrupted girl time. What to do what to do. Well, we decided to take the bottle of California chardonnay off the wine rack and celebrate her final moments of freedom. And we were [...]
We enjoyed enough sunshine yesterday in Revelstoke (where there was still snow on the ground in places) that my friend Chris and our children ate lunch outside on a picnic table after a swim. We had wet hair, yet did not turn blue immediately. This is a good sign. Wineries across the Okanagan Valley will [...]
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Also tagged cabernet sauvignon, Okanagan, spring, wine rack, wine rack store, wine racks
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
So the word on the web is that chablis, aka chardonnay, is an under-appreciated wine. Much maligned as filler for jug wines over the years, chablis now has a bad name it does not deserve. I guess, as with all wines, a skilled wine maker can produce something worth drinking while those with little discernment [...]
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Also tagged California, chablis, white wine, wine rack, wine rack store, wine racks
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