The theme for this month’s Wine Pairing Weekend (#WinePW) is pairing with with “junk” food. Our host this month is Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm. In her invitation for the event she stated “Junk food, like wine, is personal” and that we could “write about one of your guilty pleasures“….
Tag: Pedro Ximenez
An Exploration of Sherry; In the Glass And At The Table #WinePW
This month’s Wine Pairing Weekend is about Sherry, one of the world’s most complex, labor intensive, yet misunderstood and under appreciated wines! I taste and pair the six types of sherry – five dry and a sweet “PX”! I have been a Sherry lover for many years. My appreciation of sherry was inspired by two books;…
Wine Of The Week – Gonzalez Byass “Apóstoles” Palo Cortado VORS
My Wine Of The Week is a Sherry aged for 30 years!
Dessert Wine Primer; Part I – Fortified Dessert Wines
Dessert wines are sweet wines served with, or instead of dessert. Dessert wines are also known as “stickies” because picking the grapes makes the workers hands sticky. The term originated in Australia, but has become ubiquitously synonymous with dessert wines around the world. There are essentially two types of dessert wines, fortified and late harvest. In…