Two years ago, the world watched in shock as Argentina's economy crumbled into chaos. After defaulting on $95 billion in state bonds, the country went bankrupt and foreign investment fled. Poverty ...
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Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...
A friend was in town and wanted to meet for dinner so we decided on Fuleen Seafood in Chinatown. I brought a few bottles of wine to enjoy with the excellent selection of seafood and a few poultry and ...
Years ago I discovered, quite by accident, that red wine can taste just fine with chocolate. It was at a dinner where the dessert, one of those dense, not-very-sweet, runny chocolate cakes where the ...
Despite being a food professional for 28 years, I never thought I needed a fancy outdoor grill, even when I lived in California. I usually bought a basic gas grill from a hardware store and dumped it ...
Frank Mitolo and his winemaker, Ben Glaetzer, dropped by for lunch last week to talk about how they make the Mitolo wines in McLaren Vale. Several of their bottlings have jumped out at me in my blind ...
Twelve glasses of red wine sat before me on a warm Thursday morning this past week. The field included six New Zealand wines and six Bordeaux from recent vintages. The task: Guess which ones were from ...