Showing posts with label FoodAndWine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FoodAndWine. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Wine With Food, For Your Health

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How healthy/unhealthy is wine? There are mixed signals. It seems that the amount of alcohol consumed and in what circumstances changes the o...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Wine For Nat'l Cheesecake Day

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Wednesday, July 30, 2025, is National Cheesecake Day. You were probably wondering what wine to have with your favorite cheesecake.
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Wines With Grilled Meat

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Memorial Day weekend is upon us. It's the gateway to summer grilling. Let's take a look at some wine suggestions for grilled food. A...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

What Wine with Cheeseburgers?

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Wednesday, September 18th is National Cheeseburger Day .  There are deals on cheeseburgers (with restrictions) at McDonald's, Burger Kin...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

What's Behind Wine & Food Pairing?

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It's science , of course, and most of us don't really know how it works. It helps if you realize your perception of a wine can be al...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Food & Wine, Simplified

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 In the past, I've made suggestions of food to have with Sangiovese or wines to have with your grilled burgers, for example. I once atte...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Burger Wines

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   It's summer and you're probably grilling hamburgers. Some people might go for a beer with the burger, but I'll suggest you ha...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

A Non-Alcoholic Wine That Will Give You a Buzz

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Herbacée is a fancy French sounding name for a California company making non-alcoholic sparkling wine. The buzz? That would come from the TH...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Sonoma County Secrets

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I f you will be visiting Sonoma County you will probably do your research and know about restaurants like Valette in Healdsburg and Girl and...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Wine Country Lodging & Dining During the Pandemic

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   We've heard about wineries and the economic pain with lack of visitation. Some have been helped by more shipping via their websites....
Friday, December 27, 2019

Making Wine in a Restaurant Fun

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Because nobody wants the restaurant staff staring at them while they try to make a selection from the wine list then sneer at their choice....
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Sonoma County - What's Not to Love

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I f I didn't live here in Sonoma County this spot would be at the top of my list of places to visit. Why? There are many reasons. Let...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Why Restaurant Wine Lists Stink

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First off, not all of them stink , but way too many do. There are some restaurants with great wine lists and some of these I can even afford...
Friday, December 7, 2018

Sonoma County's Michelin-Starred Restaurants

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The latest ratings were recently announced. Single Thread Farms Restaurant in Healdsburg opened in 2016 to great fanfare. This year the r...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

What Wine with Your Burger

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It's now officially spring so lets think about grilling up some hamburgers. Burgers, the all-American food, with a thousand ways to prep...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Sparkling Wine / Food Pairing

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We should have more sparkling wine with our meals. In the U.S. sparkling wine is about celebrations where you have a glass or three at weddi...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Sangiovese - A Food-Friendly Wine

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Sangiovese (san joh vaze ay) is Italy's most popular wine grape and the Italians know a thing or two about putting food and wine togethe...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Best Sonoma County Restaurant Wine Lists

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Wine Spectator magazine has an annual competition for best restaurant wine lists. For 2017 here are the restaurants in Sonoma County. There...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Restaurant Ploys

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Like any business restaurant studies are done to figure out how to better separate you from your money. Some restaurant tricks from food...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Unique Santa Rosa Restaurants

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You're in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, and want something a little different for your next meal. Would you like to light up your taste bud...