Now is the time to be looking for good buys on fall wines — the big, full-bodied reds or Italian and French favorites that will grace holiday tables or make for fine pairings with meals. While the wine press has been lamenting the fact about a shortage of grapes inCalifornia, which means rising prices, there […]
Author: Jim Campanini
It's all by the numbers — art, wine and love
One of the key fascinations about the Wine Goddess is that she never ceases to surprise me even after more than two decades of marriage. She hates to be cooped up in a room — any room — unless she is reading a food magazine, entertaining, or charting out a garden strategy for new plantings […]
Meditrina, a new wine love of loves
Meditrina, the Roman Goddess of Health and Wine, is the name of a heavenly red blend from Oregon. Newsroom budgets and not bottles have consumed most of my time lately, although I did get to taste five wines in the Pergola over the weekend. While the Wine Goddess did her thing in the garden, I […]
Summer doldrums? It's wine party time
It was the most expensive vacation in which I never left home. My wife, the Wine Goddess, and yours truly were planning to visit my sister, who has a nice 43-foot cabin Cruiser on Lake Michigan, last week. But prior to departure, our central heating/air conditioning system expired, an electrical coil quit its refrigerator job […]
Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc is a great buy at $14.99
Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc is a great buy at $14.99 when compared to pricier, more well-known brands like Cloudy Bay. WINE PICKS OF THE WEEK: Go to Costco in New Hampshire and check out the Eroica Riesling from Washington State. This is a 92-point rated wine (Wine Enthusiast) selling for $16.69. Its orange aromas and […]
Mastering the basics of wine with Dennis Meadows
Learn the techniques of properly opening a wine bottle, how to pour a glass of wine, and the best way to store an opened bottle to preserve maximum freshness and flavors.
A Brunello for Caravaggio's Bacchus
Is Caravaggio’s Bacchus (1597-98) teasing us to join the party with his rich goblet of wine? Im sitting in the pergola reading Andrew Graham-Dixons fascinating new book on Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) when I drift off to the last time I was in Rome, in 2007, and I saw the great painters […]
Keep the wine mysteries coming, dear
I was planning on taking a vacation from writing this column this week, and came up with a novel excuse — palate fatigue. I told the Wine Goddess I will pass on this excuse to my readers who will inevitably turn to medical journals to find out if “palate fatigue” is terminal. She laughed and […]
Three wines to salute Jefferson, The Fourth
Thomas Jefferson was the nation’s first wine visionary.
Napa Valley comes to New Hampshire
If you want to get a feel for what dining in California’s wine country is all about, you don’t have to fly 3,000 miles or spend $500 on airfare. Just travel up Route 3 North to Exit 4 in Nashua and head to Murphy Drive. Once there, take your first left in the industrial park […]
