David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 1/20/2016: Cooking with Wine I wasn’t always knowledgeable about wine. I had to learn about it, study it and taste it. There are a few things we all do naturally, breathing and swallowing come to mind, everything else we have to learn….
Category: Wine Savvy
WINE SAVVY: Pairing Wine & Cheese
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 1/6/2016: Pairing Advice: Wine & Cheese Wine and cheese are an iconic pairing but choosing correctly is daunting. Here are three simple concepts to help you make a pairing and advice on what wines goes with what cheese. The first thing to…
WINE SAVVY: Champagne survival guide
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 12/23/2015: Champagne Survival Guide Every year, people buy bottles of Champagne, or other sparkling wines, with the intention of popping the cork on Christmas or New Year’s Eve. Nothing says celebration like the pop of a Champagne cork. Champagne bottles ooze…
WINE SAVVY: Wine for dessert
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 12/09/2015: Everyone has probably tasted a sweet wine. White Zinfandel comes to mind. These are wines that have the principle taste as sweetness and that’s about it. These wines are sticky sweet and are not really interesting. They lack complexity, one of…
WINE SAVVY: Best Wine for Thanksgiving
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 11/25/2015: One wine for Thanksgiving If I had to choose just one wine to pair with Thanksgiving dinner it would be Alsatian gewurztraminer. I can hear you tripping over the word. Let’s take it in pieces; gewurtz means spicy in German, and…
WINE SAVVY: Warm up with Port, the fortified wine
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 11/11/2015: Warm up with Port, the fortified wine An English winter is dark, wet, and cold. The options for an indigenously produced warming drink is very limited. While the English can make many fantastic beers, their climate can’t grow grapes and grapes…
WINE SAVVY: Glassware
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 10/28/2015: Glassware A few years ago I was in Paris with few a friends. We had spent the entire day walking around the city and were in dire need of sustenance. It was Saturday evening and we were leaving in a few…
WINE SAVVY: New World vs. Old World
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 10/14/2015: Wine style: New world vs. Old world Wine is notoriously difficult to make consistent. This is because grapes are fruit that produce juice based on what the weather and the land give them each year. In a good growing year the…
WINE SAVVY: Wine’s Aging Potential
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 9/30/2015: Most people think that wine gets better with age. Funny quotes say things like, “Wine improves with age, I improve with wine.” Hollywood movies often have suave heros in tuxedos ordering old strange sounding wines. Take this quote from the 2014…
WINE SAVVY: Washington’s Walla Walla Wineries
David’s article as prepared for the Duluth News Tribune for the column which ran on 9/16/2015: Late last century, in 1997, I had the opportunity to drive through the far eastern Washington town of Walla Walla. At the time this county seat of 45,000 people was most famous for the sweet onions farmers grew in the semi…