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Fresh Produce: What’s in Your Glass?

In light of all the gardening insights of my previous post, this is a list of vegetable and fruit friendly bottles to consider once your summer garden begins over-producing.

 

SAUVIGNON BLANC

A go-to varietal for pairing green vegetables or salads with wine, Sauvignon Blanc has aromas and flavours of lime and gooseberry with some [...]

Grills and Vines

a glass of wine for every reason

Vine is vut my Papa used to make in ze basement on ze farm. He harvested red currants and raspberries from his garden and transformed them into something decidedly unMennonite. I remember the huge fermenting vessel with its apparatus on top and how fascinated we three girls [...]

Wine and Kiwis

the nearly lost art of letter writing

My earliest experience with New Zealand dates back to my years at Fairfield Island Elementary School. I don’t know how the teachers went about doing it, but somehow they found pen pals from New Zealand for some of their more eager students. Being a budding writer even [...]

What We Did Last Night

La Stella Vivace Pinot Grigio

Once the stage has been set and after all of the key players have arrived, you can finally stop holding your breath and begin to smile. Once the first glass of wine is in your hand and you look around to see the eager happy faces of [...]

Now Play Nicely Together

the glasses are all empty except this one

Oh snobby, snobby me. I chose the theme of ‘Pairing Wine and Cheese’ for my latest newsletter believing it would be an easy task to apply what I know about food and wine pairing to the art of pairing wine with cheese. How hard could it [...]

Summer Sipping

all it needs is a squeeze of lemon and some Sauvignon Blanc

Oh yeah… bring on the SUN! People, we have waited for a little longer than usual for this warmness so do not let me hear any of you complaining. I know, some of you have to work out in it and being [...]

Tasting History and Hope

Cape Town as it appears today

Surprisingly, the world’s sixth largest wine producer and one of the oldest wine regions on earth still maintains a fairly low profile. It’s time to put on our comfortable shoes and take up our corkscrews to go exploring below the equator again, for there are plenty of rare [...]