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Wine-Pairing Thanksgiving Tips

November 11, 2020 by BettyKaufman Leave a Comment

Wine-Pairing Thanksgiving Tips
Wine-Pairing Thanksgiving Tips

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and that means it’s time to start sweating about what wines to include with your festive meal. Right? Wrong. There’s no need to sweat about Thanksgiving wine pairings. First of all, this year, you probably won’t have millions of people at your house, and the few guests you’ll have will be very forgiving. Second, given all the amazing flavors associated with Thanksgiving, you can choose many different wines that will work beautifully. Finally, you don’t have to obsess with a perfect pairing for each dish. Nobody eats each dish individually. Instead, we amass all the dishes on our plate and switch between them. Thanksgiving is really a smorgasbord of flavors. With all of this said, lighter, livelier, and lower-alcohol wines are better fits for a festive meal than heavier, more complicated ones. We’ll talk about all of this in the wine-pairing Thanksgiving tips below.

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Filed Under: Holidays, Weddings and Gifts Tagged With: Thanksgiving, tips, wine pairing

If You Loved The Brady Bunch, You’ll Love a Brady Bunch Wine Tasting!

November 4, 2020 by BettyKaufman Leave a Comment

What was your favorite part of The Brady Bunch? Was it the family love? The trips to Hawaii? The simplicity of the times? For me, it was the starting song and the Tic Tac Toe image on the screen. Guess what. In today’s challenging times, you get to relive your memories with a Brady Bunch Wine Tasting!

The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch
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Filed Under: Enjoying Wine Tagged With: brady bunch, virtual, wine tasting

Personalized Wine and Gift Baskets: The Perfect Combo

October 28, 2020 by BettyKaufman 10 Comments

With the holidays right around the corner, I’m excited to let you know that I’m partnering with All The Buzz on gift baskets this holiday season to add a little splash to some very special gift baskets! What is that splash? It’s wine! The perfect combo this year for holiday gifts is personalized wine and gift baskets.

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Filed Under: Holidays, Weddings and Gifts Tagged With: all the buzz, gift basket, personalized wine, personalized wine and gift baskets

To Spoon or not to Spoon. That Is the Question.

October 21, 2020 by BettyKaufman 6 Comments

Our “To Spoon or not to Spoon” Experiment

Several weeks ago, I wrote about putting a piece of silverware in an open bottle of sparkling wine to preserve the bubbles. I talked about the fact that some experts believe in this trick and some do not. The believers say that the spoon cools the top of the bottle, preventing the bubbles from escaping. The nonbelievers say that it doesn’t work. So the big question: To spoon or not to spoon. In my first blog article, I promised to test the theory and let you know what I discovered. And so I did!

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Filed Under: Enjoying Wine Tagged With: bubbles in sparkling wine, to spoon

Sangiovese, the Grape of Tuscany

October 14, 2020 by BettyKaufman 2 Comments

Eight years ago, I wrote a series on the wines of Italy, including the wines of Tuscany. In my article on Tuscany, I highlighted that Sangiovese is the grape that is responsible for Tuscany’s most important red wines, including Chianti, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Brunello di Montalcino. Today we’re going to explore Sangiovese in a lot of detail with the help of my Ohio wine friend Jim Sperk*. Thank you, Jim, for your great help with this article.

Brunello di Montalcino
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Filed Under: Varietals and Wine Styles Tagged With: sangiovese, super tuscan, tuscan, Tuscany

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