Most wine connoisseurs are often hesitant to recommend Sauvignon Blanc, because of its reputation for aromas that favor Sylvester or Toonces playing in the sandbox. If all SBs could taste like St. Supery’s Sauvignon Blanc and Virtu, and Los Vascos Sauvignon Blanc, we’d bet they’d change their tunes.
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Perfectly Cooked Bacon and Eggs (with a Wine Pairing)
Be a Home Superstar Chef (Part 7 – Pork Chops)
Wine Pairing Recipes: Wild Salmon & Mussels
Almond Encrusted Salmon with Blood-Orange Vinaigrette; fresh Gulf Coast Mussels with a shallot Muscadet reduction, and a spinach-chevre salad. The blood-orange vinaigrette brought out a zesty orange-peel citrus in the wine, that combined well with its notes of floral and citrus. The menu was such a perfect pairing to the wine, we thought we would publish the recipes, so you could try them as well!
Continue readingSpring Has Sprung – Anaba Coriol White Blend
The best thing about Spring, especially for anyone living along the Gulf Coast as I do, is the signal that it’s the perfect time to start drinking white wines. So, for a recent Open that Bottle Night, we decided we needed to try a white Rhône-style blend from Anaba, their 2007 Coriol White.
Continue readingAnother Wine Byte 8: Any Port in the Storm
Once home, we began unpacking various wine club shipments that had arrived in our absence. Joe’s mom noticed a bottle of port, and asked “What do you do with port?” Joe pointed to the 10 lb. bar ofGuittard chocolate he got me for Valentine’s Day, and we proceeded to open a bottle of Frog’s Tooth Tawny Portoad, we picked up in Murphys during our fabulous visit to Twisted Oak Winery. All for the sake of teaching Joe’s mom a little about port, and chocolate, of course.
Continue readingToasting my Father, Six Months After Ike
We went down to Kemah today to buy some seafood to go with a white wine we planned to drink for Open That Bottle Night and Twitter Taste Live. I’d heard it was bad. Hurricane Ike. Direct hit. I hadn’t gone anywhere near there in the daylight since the storm because I just didn’t want to see all the devastation. But since it’d been nearly six months, we thought perhaps our favorite place “Rose’s Seafood” would be open.
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