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How to Cook with Wine

white wine works well with shellfish

Am I preaching to the choir when I advocate cooking with wine? Or is this something we would all like to be a little more confident in doing? For me, it’s something that I think I would like to do more often, but when it comes right down [...]

Shiraz: 101 to 18A

by Rose Siemens

 

Yes, I really did write this.

 

Shiraz, oh prize fighter of grapes, no other wine can quite compete with your tooth staining consistency and your jammy complexity. I remember when we met; you were wearing a sassy bright bottle and me innocent, easily wooed by a label that beckoned so [...]

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 [...]

Ratings Smack Down Wine Tasting

All the open bottles are kept hidden

One of our team members suggested a great concept for a Thursday Night Swirl wine tasting that was perfect during the Winter Olympics weeks: several of our staff would choose a wine they liked to present to the Swirl participants, the participants would then evaluate and rate [...]

Still Swirling

I like my job. Yes, there are many ordinary moments at work, but then there are the things that make me look around and muse ‘do I really get paid to do this?’

Tasting Table

Speaking of Grapes

One of the best work-things that I get to do is organize wine tastings for [...]