Welcome to Betty's Wine Musings, where you'll get fabulous wine tasting tips and wine tasting notes, discover personalized wines, and more! Whether you are a wine veteran or just getting started, there’s always something more to explore about the wonderful world of wine.
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.
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.
When you think St. Patrick’s Day, you think green: green beer, green Midori, Irish Crème liqueur, green Irish whiskey…It isn’t surprising that St. Patrick’s Day Wine doesn’t jump into your mind when considering what to serve with corned beef and cabbage. I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to drink like a leprechaun to enjoy beautiful wines with St. Patty’s Day fare.
This past Saturday was OTBN 2019! That’s right! Open That Bottle Night 2019! The night each year where you get together with wine-loving friends to share special wines that you might have been saving for just a bit too long. OTBN was created in 2000 by Wall Street Journal Tastings columnists Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher.
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