by the glass you’ll have less wine but you’ll get greater variety of flavor matchups which can really enhance the meal.

Vermouth is a dry white wine enhanced with herbs. I prefer French vermouth, Noilly Pratt is what I buy. It will last a very long time if you keep it tightly closed and in a cool dark cupboard.

to drink out of the bottle, but the Vinturi enhanced the focus on those very notes I dislike in Cabernet. I put it right back away. Typically, I’ll taste the wine without, then areate a similar amount and decide.

. The general rule is to pair food with wines that will compliment, thus enhancing, the flavours of the food (like the example used above), It is when you get into complex dishes where the territory becomes a bit less familiar....

with wine suggestions) While I still think the Roosevelt’s food needs some enhancement, the approach to wine and beer there is a welcome one.

it was a matter of figuring out that wine could greatly enhance the enjoyment of a meal. Now, I plan my meal around what kind of wine I want to drink.

Your chicken dish seems very well prepared as a match for Sauvignon Blanc with the notable exception of Feta, which is much more a red-wine cheese than appropriate for a white.... to bring the dish totally to Sauvignon-Blanc, use...

with a great texture on the mid-palate leading into a crisp, bright finish. Given the fresh fruity style, this wine is best consumed in the next two years. —Dave Guffy Winemaker Link: http://winetalk.com

), and it is drinkable, a $20 wine is worth more intrinsically, but twice as much? Is a $200 wine worth 100 times as much? Can a $2000 wine enhance my experience 1000 times as much? How about that $20,000 wine? I could buy one...

Sounds like fun. I’ve hosted my share of parties for wine novices. For novices, I think variety is key. Get as many different varietals as you can, so people can taste the spectrum. Order of tasting is important as well....

After doing a little research (i.e. surfing) I’ve found that brettanomyces or simply “brett” (i.e. a common spoilage organism in winemaking1) is used in some wines. But there naturally is some controversy...

, except in circumstance where one is really experiencing a truly traditional Chinese meal. Cross-cultural food and wine pairings, where they enhance the experience of each other, can only be a good thing.

There is no doubt — in my mind, at least — that BOTH wine and beer CAN enhance a meal. Some specific dishes seem specifically better suited to wine (one example might be coq au vin), while others may seem destined for...

10 glasses break on me in 2005. one solution of course is to switch to cheaper wine glasses and tolerate the breakage. but, psychological or not, i swear that these glasses indeed enhance aromatics and so i’m reluctant to...

I am not much of wine drinker myself, however I always like to try wine/food pairings because wine interacts with the food in unique ways and it changes the flavor, often enhancing it. It is mostly my curiosity that winds up...