Name: 2003 Craftsman Cabernet Franc
Grape: Cabernet Franc
Region: Szekszard, Hungary
Price: $7.99 to $9.99
The votes are in and Kitchen readers prefer Old World, Red Wines this time of year. With that in mind this week's choice is from Hungary, a land that has been making wine for over 2000 years.
Prior to Soviet domination and communist rule, Hungary was a very important wine-growing region. In fact, it produces more wine and has more planted acres that it's better-known neighbor, Austria.
Take our wine survey after the jump.
3 Days Until The Big Day!
We are settled on the Mendocino Coast, whose stunning beauty erases wedding stress and puts our minds at ease.
As mentioned last Thursday we are embracing locality with this wedding. Fortunately the Anderson Valley is home to many wonderful wineries, so we had a bounty to choose from. Plus we have the fabulous Café Beaujolais, a pioneer of local and organic cooking, catering our meal. We are very lucky!
and we're gonna get married! That's right, one week from Saturday we'll be standing on a bluff in Mendocino, California exchanging vows before skipping off to a Bacchanalian feast of local food and wine.
Mendocino is a majestic western town perched on the bluffs of the Pacific Ocean, just a few hours north of San Francisco and a few hours west of Sonoma County.
Just back from a weeklong Napa Valley intensive...
I've officially escaped! As you are reading this, I am in the Napa Valley attending a wine educator's conference.
One element of today's schedule was a food and wine pairing lecture at the Williams Center for flavor discovery at Greystone. In addition to trying a multiple of pairings ourselves (which was quite fun), we also discussed a system that can help anyone achieve a great pairing in six simple steps.
Read how below the jump:
L'Isle sur la Sorgue (pronounced: lil-sur-la-sorgoo) is a majestic town located in Provence, just outside of Avignon.
Built on the islands in one of the five branches of the river Sorgue, the river flows in, around and everywhere in this town.
Considered the Venice of Provence, this magical little town is packed with footbridges, waterwheels and canals.
The perfect wine country escape! Amidst majestic oaks and romantic barns, Westside Road quietly winds its way from the towns of Windsor to Healdsburg in California's Sonoma County.
If you are in the mood for some wine industry gossip, then this book is for you. The House of Mondavi, by Julia Flynn Sigler, is an epic tale filled with genius, scandal and sibling rivalry.
Starting in 1906 when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi left Italy and culminating in the astonishing hostile takeover of the seemingly family held stock of the Robert Mondavi Corporation in 2005.
This book follows four generations of Mondavis and is a gripping drama about sibling rivelry and the Napa Valley wine industry.
Name:Chateau Tour de Goupin Blanc
Grape:Sauvignon Blanc, Semillion, Muscadelle
Region: Bordeaux, France
Price: $8.99
The perfect summer wine, light, crisp, refreshing and very inexpensive!
Name: Dalton Sauvignon Blanc
Grape:Sauvignon Blanc
Region: Israel
Price: $9.99 to $12.99
Israeli wine is back! After several thousand years on hiatus, Israel, one of the birthplaces of wine, is taking the modern market by storm.
Israel has been making wine since pre-biblical times. Some think that this part of the Fertile Crescent is responsible for the discovery wine. Some even say that the discovery of wine and beer is why we evolved from nomads to agrarians; we needed to be in one place to let our grains and fruit ferment.
Name: Mumm Brut Cordon Rouge NV
Grape:Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier & Chardonnay
Region: Champagne
Price: $26.79 to $30.99
Tired of that orange label Champagne? Well, you are in luck because Mumm offers a classic and more sophisticated alternative for about the same price.
Fans of the movie Casablanca will remember a bottle of Mumm sitting atop Rick's piano as he romanced Ilsa.
Sparkling Sake and cold Cucumber Sake cocktails are two great ways to beat summer's heat.
Sake is a fermented beverage made from rice (rice wine), whose long history dates back to the third century A.D.. Traditional Sake is made from Rice only, however; there are some sakes (mostly cheaper sakes) made from other grains, who have alcohol added to them.
Lambrusco is a summer standby; fun, fizzy & fresh; an excellent red wine to toast summer's arrival with!
Lambrusco is a sparkling red wine. Who said red can't be sparkling? Sparkling reds can be fabulous and Lambrusco proves that!
It's barbecue season! Oh, the magnificent barbecue a symbol of summer, frivolity, conversation and great food.
Not only does cooking on a grill create a bevy of delicious treats, there is also the time-honored tradition of standing around the grill and solving global problems. But that's not all, lest we forget the great tales that stem from a grill.
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