About a year ago, I unwittingly unleashed a minor sh*tstorm when I taste-tested some very good chocolates and paired them with some very good wine and found the match up to be not-so-very-good. The main issue then was that the very good chocolates in question were designed specifically to pair with wines. And yet, time…
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A Post-Holiday Bargain Bottle Of Farmer Fizz (And How To Pour It!)
When Playboy.com asked me to put together a primer on Champagne (for the NYE celebration holiday season), I was sporting a seriously large sh*t-eating grin on my face. I mean, c’mon… the homework involved in that requires me to raid the sample pool for all of the Champers I could get my grubby little paws…
Bumping Into A 1959 (And Marion Cotillard) In Bordeaux
This past September while touring the less-appreciated side of Bordeaux as a guest of Planete Bordeaux, we wrapped up our jaunt with a boat ride, before which we tossed back some cured meats and a lot of tasty and inexpensive Bordeaux whites and rosés, and during which we tossed back some oysters and a lot…
Bordeaux For The Tomato-Pie Eating 99 Percent (Inside Chateau Féret-Lambert)
When most people hear the name of a French Chateau, they conjure up in their mind’s eye a scenario that probably looks a lot like what Féret-Lambert is like in real life: green hills punctuated by vineyards bulging with ripe, juicy Merlot grapes; a large, picturesque house dating from the 1700s, located a stone’s throw…