Sizzling Summer Food And Wine Pairings
Wildly Winning Food and Wine Combos As spring merged with summer the scents of fresh food and light wines have splattered across the days. From Majorca to Tuscany to Bordeaux…
Uncork The Vibrancy of Friuli Wines
Some Recent News - The new Vino Voices website is still under development. Malibu Magazine recently republished an article I wrote about a female vintner and family near Malibu (page…
Socially Unbuttoning Bordeaux
This Vino Voices website/weblog is being redesigned by a professional (finally!) It will soon be more compact and include a visual menu of previous posts. Stay tuned. Also, the Etalon…
11 Tips For Wine Travel
My latest Forbes pieces are here, and include wise words from 10 winemakers and winery owners, U.S. entrepreneurs launching canned South African wine, how a digital negociant helped change the…
A Decade Of Springtimes …
Ten years ago (in March) I first arrived to visit Bordeaux city and countryside. In 2017 I wrote a post about that arrival, which included being in a bar where…
French Alpine Wines Of Savoie
Savoie, pronounced Sav-WAH, is a wine producing region associated with the French Alps. The whites are notable, although you are likely not familiar with the white grapes of Jacquère or…
South African Wine
Latest Forbes pieces are here regarding South African wines. This post includes additional photos, and a value scoring of many wines tasted .... The food, wine, countryside and hospitality were…
Wine Detox Part Three—The Algorithmic Regime
My latest Forbes pieces are here and include articles that discuss the marriage of Azorean tourism with forestation, Germanic influence on Italy's Friuli wines and a Bordeaux restaurant that oozes with…
Wine Detox Part Two—Why Exercise And Weight May Not Relate
This is Day 20 of being alcohol-free this month, as well as abstaining from bread, pasta, cheese and raw, refined sugar (except for an occasional spoonful for coffee). I’ve also…
This Wine Detox Is A Bhutanese Parasite
A New Year is here. Open mind, open horizons. Many of us splashed our way through midnight, then decided to enjoy celebratory bottles again for a January 1st lunch, delaying…