Apartment Therapy Tagged: wine

Midwest Food Roundup: Pancakes for Every Occasion

Breakfast is a hot topic this week. We've got pancake recipes for every meal, and more, in this week's roundup. ...

Wine Bottle Closures: Cork vs. Screw Cap

Do wine closures matter to you? When buying a bottle of wine are you influenced by the type of closure? Do you consider screw caps to contain cheaper or lower quality wine? Have you embraced screw ca...

Getaway Gear: MuNiMulA Wine Tray

For back porch getaways... We saw this wine tray over at Mighty Haus recently and just had to post it. It's a sleek little accessory for all your back porch or park entertaining, especially when you w...

Sonoma County Grape Camp

Have you ever wanted to learn more about wine, beyond just tasting it? How about being involved with the grape harvest, blending your own vintage, and experiencing tasty food and wine pairings?...

Wine Escapes: Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula
Chicago

Many Chicagoans are familiar with the wineries of nearby southwest Michigan, which provide a nice day-trip destination. But Michigan’s wine country extends further north, as well, with nearly 15 win...

Food and Wine Pairing: A Grilled Summer Menu of Herbed Pork, Tender Ravioli, and Garden Greens

Food and wine pairing can be such fun. There is no such thing as only one wine perfect for a particular dish. Everyone's palate is unique and we have different sensitivity thresholds to acidity, bitte...

The Cheesemonger meets The Winemonger: A Cheese and Wine Pairing Primer

When it comes to pairing wine and cheese together, there are so few go-to matches. So how do you know when you've happened upon a perfect pair? Take a look at our bullet-pointed guidelines, your new, ...

Good Quote: On Tasting Everything

In the introduction to his book, 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World, Gary Vaynerchuk gives one of the most compelling arguments on taste that we've heard: The ...

Honeybees, Rice Alternatives, and Underwater Wine Cellars:
Top food news for June 9-13

It's Hump Day and here we are with the food news for this week. Read on ......

2-in-1 Recipe Review: Wine-Marinated Grapes and Sweet Wine Refresher

When we came across a decade-old Bon Appétit recipe for Wine-Marinated Grapes, we were intrigued. But when we learned the recipe would yield a ready-made cocktail as well, we simply couldn't resist. ...

Northern California Store Review: Oxbow Public Market in Napa

While in Napa last weekend, we visited the new Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa. Oxbow is a large food hall where everything on sale is food-related in some way; from spices to tea, to wine and k...

Good Product: 9-Bottle Bag

What a great idea! Here's a sturdy nylon bag that has 9 individual compartments for transporting nine 1.5 liter bottles....

Field Trip: COPIA - Napa's Center for Wine, Food, and Arts

Memorial for Robert Mondavi in the COPIA lobby. Mondavi passed away last Friday. A few weeks ago, we made plans to visit a friend in Napa for the weekend. During the drive up Friday after work, we ...

Threatened Truffles, Ground Beef Recall, and Foie Gras:
Top food news for May 19-23

Wow, so much food news this week, but most of it good! Read on ......

Weeknight Meal Tip: What Do You Do With Bad Wine?

It's happened to all of us at some point; that bottle of wine that we brought back from France or found in a really great wine shop - you know, the one we were saving for a really special occasion? I...

Hot or Not? Get a Grip Wine Glass Holders

We met a few of the good folks from FRED at the Housewares Show, and we thoroughly enjoyed their high spirits and witty sense of humor. This sense of humor infuses all their products, most of which st...

Wine Store Review: Best Cellars

For the casual-yet-discerning wine drinker, perusing the jumbled aisles at the liquor store can be an antiseptic and uninspiring experience. And yet it's easy to feel intimidated and tongue-tied when ...

NY Times Dining Section Roundup: Rose Cream Meringues and Short Ribs

Coaxing Exotic Flavor From Familiar Elements - Where was Mark Bittman when we were looking for savory coffee recipes to polish off Coffee Week? These succulent braised short ribs would have been pe...

Vino: Varieties of Saké

The mass popularization of sushi and other Japanese cuisine in America has led to a great rise in the popularity of saké as well. Saké is an alcoholic beverage from Japan and it can be ...

The Celluloid Pantry: Mulled Wine and It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

So this angel walks into a bar�. In Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life (1946), the angel is the dim, but well-meaning Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers, right), and the bar is Nick's, a place full o...

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