I feel like it’s part of my duty to pass along successful recipes when I find them, and I recently loved this Olive Oil Granola with Dried Apricots & Pistachios from the New York Times. Didn’t change a thing, and it turned out beautifully!
Get the recipe here — and the original article here!

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Kilikanoon winery and lunch with CEO Nathan Waks. At the end of the lunch, Nathan pulled out a sort of briefcase with samples (in uber-cool vintage bottles) of Seppeltsfield fortified wines. Waks is also one of the owners of Seppeltsfield, a Barossa-based winery steeped in Aussie history and [...]

One of my favorite things about traveling to wine regions are those random wine treasures — wines I would have never had the opportunity to taste if I hadn’t happened to pull into that particular parking lot to check my driving directions, noticed there was a tasting room tucked in the corner of the building, [...]

The only highlight of a singularly bad, and not inexpensive, dinner at the recently opened III Forks steakhouse in Houston was the wine. (Well, the room is pretty…) I’m not exaggerating when I say that the lobster bisque was the worst, pasty, floury, goop in the history of lobster bisques, all starters and sides were cold and/or [...]

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 [...]

So… anyone who reads this site knows that I’m a Calera fan. No point in trying to be coy at this point. And I recently tasted a batch of current releases that I’m going to rave about shortly. (As an aside, I actually did taste the new Calera Pinots blind, in a mix with other [...]

Thanks to a combination of the efforts of a diligent PR rep (thanks Thea!) as well as a couple of happy coincidence moments, I’ve tasted a handful of Picpoul de Pinets lately.
Pic what, you say? Picpoul de Pinet. PICK-pool de pin-AYE. (I’ve never been too great at that phonetic spelling business, but I think that’s [...]