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This was my tenth year of hosting a Girl Scout Cookie wine tasting, an outrageously fun event where we figure out which wines pair best with which Girl Scout Cookies and which Girl Scout Cookies pair best with which wines. This year the focus was on taste diversity, something that hadn’t come up in the past. I hope you enjoy reading about our experience.
In honor of summer BBQing season, I’m sharing WineShop At Home winemaker Alex Reble’s latest Winemaker’s Journal article on pairing grilled foods and wine. I hope you enjoy it.
I was thinking recently about my first two favorite wines, both from V. Sattui (thank you, V. Sattui!). For whites, it was their amazing Muscat. For reds, it was their wonderful Gamay. We’ve all happily seen how Muscat has taken off over the last several decades. But it occurred to me that I’ve never seen Gamay at a winery other than V. Sattui. That prompted me to do some research. I hope you enjoy my findings.
Last week, I wrote about our 12–unknown-bottle tasting where Zweigelt (TSVY-gelt)
was one of the wines we liked the best. So this week, I thought I would learn more about this wonderful Austrian grape.
[Read more…]Yesterday, my wine group did another one of our famous tastings of unknown wines. We tasted 12 European wines that none of us, or very few of us, had ever tasted. I hope you enjoy hearing about our fun. I encourage you to try to find some of these wines and see what you think.
