WINE OF THE WEEK
Keep it Local
When the ever-upbeat editor and content provider Griffin Cooper asked this week if I had suggestions of wine to pair with impending doom, I wanted to laugh and cry. That’s how it feels. I know that liquor stores, like grocery stores, are doing booming business, and thank goodness, as they are small, local businesses, too. But wineries can no longer do tastings or even […]
If You Can’t Go There, Enjoy It Here
It’s unimaginable that the whole country of Italy is on a COVID19 lock-down. It breaks my heart.
We’re so lucky to have lots of Italian wines available to us in our good old United States of America. One that I enjoyed recently is a fabulous organic Moscato d’Asti from Bera. When I think of Asti I think of too-sweet and under-bubbled champagne-style wines, and I was […]
The Phoenician
I love choosing wines. But I also love going to events where the wines are pre-selected, and the choices aren’t huge. It forces you to pay attention to what’s really in the bottle. I found myself at such an event last night, and I couldn’t resist trying an Argentinian red wine with a delightful label […]
Bring on Spring with a Great Rose
A friend and I were planning a dinner. I was bringing a spinach lasagna. He was choosing the wine. I thought for sure he’d suggest a red. After all, it was mid February, dark by 6:15 pm, cold outside – and he typically drinks red. It was the obvious (and maybe ideal) pairing with the lasagna. But lo and behold, he asked how I felt about a […]
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!
