WINE OF THE WEEK
2024 Beaujolais Nouveau
What other choice is there this week than the 2024 Beaujolais Nouveau?? November 21st was Beaujolais Nouveau Day around the world, a tradition that started way back in 1985 (though the French have been drinking it since the 1800s).
The wine, made from Gamay grapes grown in Beaujolais, France, is bottled just six to eight weeks after the […]
Carlo Rossi Paisano
This weekend I’m going big. My head is spinning. Thanksgiving is on the horizon, but the nitty-gritty planning is still a little ways off, so I don’t feel obligated to think especially clearly. I’d like to think it’s not mid-November, that what went down just a week ago might not have really happened. But it did. There’s a […]
Fortified Wines
This week I think a fortified wine is in order. What’s a fortified wine? It’s one to which alcohol (typically brandy) is added so that the alcohol content goes up, the taste becomes more complex, and the wine is stabilized. Best-known fortified wines are ports. And best of the ports are ones that are aged. A favorite of […]
J. Lohr Estates Los Osos Merlot
Daylight savings time ends this weekend. True, it’s “fall back,” so we gain an hour of sleep, but there’s nothing nice about how dark it gets so early. Well, maybe there’s something nice, after all. For me, it’s the feeling that I can kick back early. Dinner in the oven. Football game on TV. Fire in the fireplace. […]
A “Wine of the Week” is brought to you by Dominique DeVito, a founder of the Hudson-Chatham Winery in Ghent, NY, and lifelong food and wine enthusiast. In Vino Veritas!
