WINE OF THE WEEK
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. […]
Finger Lakes Wines
It’s a great time of year to head to the Finger Lakes to taste wine and take in the beauty of the area. Rather than share a specific wine with you this week, I’m sharing this inspiring news from the New York Wine & Grape Foundation, which just announced the results of its annual New York Wine Classic competition. As […]
Tomasello Raspberry Wine
How exciting to learn that October 18 is National Chocolate Cupcake Day! I say we make a weekend of it and indulge in variations on the theme on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Did you know that cupcakes can be traced back to 1796 when a recipe notation of “a cake to be baked in small cups” was written in American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons. Hooray for […]
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!
