• Archive for November, 2009

    Recipe: Tender Turkey Meatballs

    by  • November 5, 2009 • All Posts, Pairings • 0 Comments

    These manage to be light, healthy and impossibly tender and delicious — all at once. Tasty on their own and skewered with toothpicks, or serve over pasta with additional grated Parmesan. Recipe: Tender Turkey Meatballs Makes about 20 meatballs 3 tablespoons chopped, sauteed onion 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 large egg 1/4 cup fresh bread [...]

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    Rave: Alto Adige Moscato Rosa

    by  • November 4, 2009 • All Posts, Random Rants & Raves • 0 Comments

    One of my (many) “new favorite things” from recent visit to Italy’s Alto Adige region was Moscato Rosa. I’d never heard of it before this trip, and, frankly, specific answers were hard to come by. Some said Moscato Rosa was an entirely different grape from the two usual suspects: Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains and Muscat [...]

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    Saintsbury Pinot Noir – Balance in Carneros!

    by  • November 1, 2009 • All Posts, Winery Spotlights • 0 Comments

    Before the Russian River Valley became the popular choice for the “best” California Pinot Noir region, Carneros seemed poised to take the crown… The theory was that Carneros benefited from the wide open channel to the cooling bay winds, and voila, great Pinot. Of course, like most generalizations about the complicated, non-hemogenous California AVAs, it [...]

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