Category: Food
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#Food & #Wine: Football Watching Food & Wine Pairings
The temperature is slowly dropping, soon leaves will begin to transform from green to hues of yellow, orange, and red. Fall is on the horizon and you know what that means: Football! As players of all ages head back to the gridiron, fans begin planning football watching parties. No matter whether your favorite team is…
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Why You Should Be Drinking Grüner Veltliner
This article is an in-depth introduction to Grüner Veltliner for Wine Pairing Weekend as well as a wine review and food pairing.
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#Food & #Wine Pairing: Late Summer Rosés and Burgers
Although our Texas summer has included less than 12 100° F days and more rain than I can ever remember it’s still been hot enough as far as I am concerned. One great way to beat the summer heat is cooking on the grill and sipping refreshing wine. Furthermore, as summer transitions into fall it’s…
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Soave #Wine Erupting with Flavor
September is here and it’s time once again for Italian Food, Wine and Travel. This month we are exploring the world of volcanic wines. When this topic was announced by Camilla of Culinary Adventures with Camilla I immediately which wine region I wanted to explore. This article will explore the wonderful Italian wine region of…
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#Food & #Wine Pairing: Summertime with Donnafugata
Summertime and the living’s easy….isn’t that how the song goes? As summer wines down the heat in Texas likes to hang on till mid-September. By now I am ready for cooler days but still take advantage of the heat by using the grill most nights of the week. Donnafugata is an awesome addition to summer.…
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Surrender Yourself to Acquiesce Winery
The English languages has many limitations of expression. For example take the word “love.” Google defines the verb “to love” as meaning: 1) feeling a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone; 2) like very much, find pleasure in. I love my husband. I love hamburgers. Really? Moving from English to a romance language such…
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Diving Into Bordeaux #Wine with #Winophiles: Saint-Émilion
I have no idea what heaven entails. I do know that it will be amazing and I can only judge amazing by what I already know. Perhaps it depicts the majestic mountain lake and surrounding forests of Lake Tahoe, or the breathtaking waterfalls of Hawaii, or the crystal turquoise water off the coast of Cuba,…
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The Experimental Nature of Lodi Makes #Wine Fun
This morning I am leaving a fun filled long weekend in Lodi. I was there attending for the first time the Wine Bloggers Conference. I have been wanting to visit Lodi for years so I am thrilled to have wined, dined, and learned so much about this great region. Of course the Lodi people are…
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#WinePW Explores South African #Wine ~ A Whale’s Tale
How much do you know about whales? Though I find them to be majestic and glorious mammals I actually know next to nothing about them. Little did I know that buying a bottle of South African wine for this month’s Wine Pairing Weekend would lead me on a whale of a journey.
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Livin and Lovin Lodi Wines
I leave today for Lodi, California to attend the Wine Bloggers Conference. This will be my first time attending WBC. In addition to being educational I will be meeting tons of fellow bloggers that I have interacted with on social media for over 2 years. I am really looking forward to the week. I am…
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