La Divina Cucina - One to three-day classes that also include shopping, touring the market, and wine pairing. Provides calendar, prices, recipes, and dining guides. Chianti and Florence, Italy. -- http://www.divinacucina.com/ Recreation: Travel: Specialty Travel: Culinary(9)
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What is it about chianti that makes you smile? Maybe it is the wine's association with comfort peasant food that warms the spirits during these cold winter days. Or maybe it is the simple, quaffable fruit that doesn't demand an explanation or some esoteric wine description.
Chef Aliza's Cooking Classes: Offers several classes, including Future Chefs Club What's for Lunch; Mommy and Me and Asian Cooking Series. Various days and per-class and per-series prices. Register in advance; 8441 SW 132nd St., Miami. 305-234-9002 or www.chefaliza.com
Raise Your Glass is about the wine that’s good to have for ordinary occasions. It’s good, drinkable wine under $10 a bottle that is sold in the Upper Valley.
Maybe you plan to flip all your Napa cabernet sauvignon this year. Or perhaps you want to save up for a trip to Mendoza. But not all wine resolutions have to be big. There are plenty of small, realistic steps you can take to enhance your wine life in the new year.
"Wine Buzz" is wishing a happy 2009 to all you fellow wine sippers. Did you open anything particularly special for New Year's Eve? I used the waning hours of 2008 as an excuse to pop a 1991 Forman cabernet sauvignon. Come to think of it, there's really no excuse needed to open one of those. Many bottles from California's stellar 1991 vintage are drinking beautifully now. Recent bottles of the ...
In the world of wine, vintage 2008 was a blend of economy and ecology as financial woes put the brakes on a bull run in prices and more producers went green.
American wine tastes, speaking generally, are not very difficult to pin down. We have our fads -- our fickle wayward glances at one region or another or one grape or another -- and then we settle back to drinking white zinfandel or California cabernet or very oaky chardonnay.
FINE wine prices have plummeted by up to 40% as the economic downturn and the fall in the value of the pound has spooked investors into offloading their stock.
Constellation Brands Inc., which sells Mondavi wine, Corona beer and Svedka vodka, said Wednesday its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 30 percent on restructuring costs and weaker sales, and it trimmed the top end of its 2009 forecast amid the slowing global economy.
