It’s hard to remember a year more difficult than 2020. The loss of my parents marked the most sorrowful years for me personally, but collectively this is the most difficult year I can remember. The bad news has continued since February and the worst may not be behind us. Coronavirus, COVID-19, stay-at-home and social distancing became part of my everyday […]
Eleanor Garvin and Dennis Sherman traveled to France from Maryland on one-way tickets in 1983 and cooked their way through several wine regions before permanently settling in Burgundy. Could there be a better way to learn about the food and wine of France and Burgundy in particular? I don’t think so. That knowledge, accumulated over 30 years spent getting to […]
It’s February so, of course, the Wine Pairing Weekend group has collected some sweet, romantic and otherwise interesting food and wine pairings to share with you for your Valentine’s Day celebration. Christy, who blogs at Confessions of a Culinary Diva, sent out this month’s invitation. My goal for our Valentine’s Day pairing was to create a pairing that was special, but one that would leave me time to spend with my valentine.
Burgundy is complex, wonderful and frustrating all at the same time. Serious tasting and study are required to understand its wines. La Paulée de San Francisco provided an opportunity to seriously taste a large number of wines from the region. It was a special experience I highly recommend.
Just to prove to all of the regular wine tasters at the Thursday night tastings at Fine Wines of Stockton (1) that he really does not dislike Pinot Noir, George did a Pinot tasting himself. Generally, we taste Pinot noir on a Thursday night that George or Gail are unable to present the wine tasting.
Here is what we have been tasting in the last week or so. It is a bit of this and that. Three of these wines we have tasted before and have updated our previous posts. As always, it is interesting to taste how wines change over time.
Day two of the Wine Bloggers Conference started off a little earlier than the first day.
I had hoped to update this every day but it just wasn’t possible. We were busy all day long and then there were the after parties … So much wine, so little time!
We had an event filled wine weekend. Friday night we were invited to a wine tasting and appetizer event
Beaujolais but not Beaujolais Nouveau Thursday night tasting.
We enjoy wine, food and travel. Pull That Cork is a chronicle of our wine adventures, the food and wine pairings we create and our travels which are increasingly organized around wine.
