With a rich wine history that dates back at least 3,500 years, and perfect conditions for growing wine grapes, it’s no wonder Italy is one of the most exciting wine regions in the world. It is home to more than 350 authorized grape varieties across 20 wine regions. The vast majority of grapes grown in…
Author: Martin D. Redmond
Book Review and Wine Pairing: Press For Champagne: A Guide To Enjoying The World’s Greatest Sparkling Wine
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It’s deepened my knowledge of Champagne without being too technical and in process enriched my enjoyment of Champagne.
2017 Prima Materia Sangiovese + Chicken Liver Truffle Ragu Rigatoni #WinePW
This month the Wine Pairing Weekend (#WinePW) group of food and wine bloggers are exploring wines in the American edition of Slow Wine Guide, and pairing it with foods that evokes the ethos of the “Slow Food” movement. For the uninitiated, Slow Wine Guide selects wineries that respect and reflect their local terroir and practice sustainable…
Exploring Mexican Wine Beyond Baja #WinePW
This month the Wine Pairing Weekend group is tasting Mexican wine and offering food pairing to boot! My first introduction to Mexican wine was in 2017, while on vacation in Nuevo Vallarta in Baja. While there, we tried the Pinot Noir pictured below and a Syrah, also from Baja. The wine was recommended by the…
Pewsey Vale – Eden Valley’s Original Riesling Monopole #WorldWineTravel
South Australia is the historic heart of Australian wine, home to some of the most famous regions, best-known wineries and oldest vines in the country. Australian Wine.com This month the World Wine Travel group of bloggers, who explore the world virtually through wine, virtually travels to South Australia as part of our 2022 exploration of…
Champagne Louise Brison: A Tradition of Women in Charge #Winophiles
March is Women’s History Month, and the French Winophiles group of wine and food writers are celebrating France’s Women in Wine! You can see the invitation post from our host Gwendolyn Alley of Wine Predator here. The history of Women in Champagne has mostly been well documented, or more accurately, the history of widows who…
A Taste of Castelão; 2017 Casal Figueira “Tinto” #WinePW
When pushed to suffer, like all good masochists do, this grape magically evolves into an intense and aromatic wine with red berry and floral aromas. Gabriel Opaz – Catavino This month the Wine Pairing Weekend group of food and wine writers are exploring new-to-us grape varieties. I recently wrote a book review of “Foot Trodden-Portugal…
Book Review and Wine Pairing; Foot Trodden-Portugal And The Wines That Time Forgot
Why does the wine-loving world have so little appreciation of Portuguese wines? Simon J. Woolf; Co-Author of Foot Trodden Book Review Over the course of the last few years, thanks to media samples and friends who import Portuguese wine, I’ve tasted scores of Portuguese wines. And you know what? The quote attributed above to Simon…
A Port Primer By The Glass
Every cloud has a silver lining….When life give you lemons, make lemonade. Well, a few positives to come out of the pandemic for me included on-line wine events, tastings and education. I capitalized on an online education opportunity offered by Symington’s School of Port and completed “The Essentials” course online. It’s a self-paced 16-episode video…
Exploring Wines of Chile Long-Standing Commitment to Sustainability By The Bottle
Chile has been a wine-producing country since the first European settlers arrived in the mid-16th Century. The original vines, to make sacramental wine, were brought by Catholic missionaries directly from Spain or via Peru or California. Its isolated location, hemmed in by the Pacific to the west, the Andes to the east, the world’s driest desert in the north, and…