Chardonnay – Another Wine Blog

Cowboys, Chaps and World Class Chardonnay

What do you pair with a $79 Chardonnay? I asked, Joe, who does nearly all of the cooking for us here at Another Wine Blog? Fish Stew, he says. Now I am not a big fan of stew, fish or otherwise. It is probably a completely irrational bias from my childhood. Stew was what you had when you either did not have anything in the house to make a proper meal, or could not afford […]

Celebrate National Chardonnay Day, May 21st

Cornerstone Oregon 2012 Willamette Valley Chardonnay

The Trouble with Wine “Super” Stores

Celebrate Chardonnay Day on Thursday, May 22, 2014

First Friday: Dog Days of Summer Whites

Rodney Strong Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Zinfandel and Symmetry Meritage

Rodney Strong Redux for November TasteLive Tuesday!

Rodney Strong is giving us the opportunity to share with our readers an inside look at a TasteLive event, with a chance to participate in December.

Taste Live! Tuesday: California Chardonnay

In the 1976 Judgement of Paris, a Napa Valley Chardonnay took top rating over French wines. But did you know the grapes for the winning 1973 Chateau Montelena came primarily from Sonoma?

Hanging in the Balance with The Lady Chablis

It’s funny how the mind can go from point A to point B to point C in what appears to be perfectly logical succession. How an interview about democracy, corporate power and media leads to murder, a movie and wine.

2009 Stark Viognier, Damiano Vineyard, Sierra Foothills

We, like many people we know ‘cellar’ our red wines. I say “cellar” because Houston homes do not have basements so any wine aging room is often custom designed to mimic the temperature and humidity found in a European cellar or a California cave. We do not have that luxury, so our wines aged for several years in a chilled storage facility. After multiple hurricanes and flooding that spared our neighborhood more than it did […]

Steele Stymie Founder’s Reserve 2016 Syrah

Last night we joined a group of other wine folks for a virtual tasting of Steele Wines with winemaker and owner Jed Steele. With over 50 years’ in the wine industry, Jed started with a cellar position after playing basketball on scholarship for Gonzaga University, then went back to school at University of California – Davis and earned a master’s degree in enology. He gained experience with a number of wineries including Napa’s Stony Hill […]

Brys Estate Reserve Pinot Noir 2016

The 2016 Brys Estate Vineyard and Winery Pinot Noir from Old Mission Peninsula AVA is 100 percent Pinot Noir estate grapes from Traverse City, Michigan. A lighter ruby Burgundian style, it features smoked cherry and cola flavors. We paired it with red lentils and sliced pork belly. 13.5% ABV $32 For more information about Brys Estate Vineyard and Winery, visit their website.

Cocktails: Lost in Thyme

We met friends Anton and Celia out for dinner at Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar to toast the new year. We started with cocktails, and I chose this gem. Lost in Thyme is a concoction of Old Overholt Rye, aperol, cinnamon thyme syrup, lemon and aquafaba (the foamy stuff on top – it’s vegan). Garnished with a sprig of thyme. Delicious! A bit of a splurge at $11. Get there for Social Hour and enjoy […]

2008 Jemrose “Gloria’s Gem” Proprietary Blend

Often when we put together wine and food pairings the food comes first, and then the wine. Not this time. Knowing the intensity and flavor of this 2008 deep red vixen from Bennett Valley in Sonoma County, we needed something with gusto to stand up to it. Enter pork belly. Pork belly is so very versatile and inexpensive — at around $5 per pound locally — but you wouldn’t know it from many a restaurant […]

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