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Small plates with a Venezuelan accent – Baltimore Sun

Baltimore Sun

Small plates with a Venezuelan accent Baltimore Sun Also nice is Centro's tidy wine list. It features a reasonably priced selection of Spanish and South American wines, most of which are available by the … and more »

Beer bar Monk’s, Granite City offering popular crafts, imports – Sioux Falls Argus Leader

Beer bar Monk's, Granite City offering popular crafts, imports Sioux Falls Argus Leader Beers, like wine, can be paired with food and catered to the occasion. Lagers are nice, light and go down easy. The heartier stout has a little sweetness. … and more »

Wine Lover’s Chocolate Collection
A variety of six different premium dark chocolates to pair with six different wines: Port, Cabernet, Pinot, Merlot, Syrah and (our California favorite!) Zinfandel.

All packed in reusable or recyclable decorative hinged tins.

Customer Review: Overrated and misleading
Anyone who knows anything about wine knows that wines made from Pinot Noir grapes can taste vastly different depending on many factors. Anyone who knows anything about chocolate can tell you that there are vast differences between chocolates of the same cacao percentage based on where the beans were grown and who made the chocolate.

To suggest that all of the wines made from a single varietal grape pair well with a specific percentage chocolate from a single manufacturer stretches credulity to the limit. For every acceptable pairing of the 72% chocolate with a Zinfandel, I can find dozens that don’t taste very good at all.

Furthermore, the name of the company “San Francisco Chocolate Factory” suggests that the company actually manufactures the chocolate used to make these products when in fact they don’t. Last time I looked, they were simply re-packing Guittard chocolate into nice-looking tins (which they buy from a company that makes tins).

So, this is an expensive way to get a lesson in chocolate and wine pairing that is simplistic at the least, and outright wrong in most cases. Anyone who is interested in learning more about pairing might want to take a look at my book (Discover Chocolate) which can be purchased right here on Amazon. I devote a whole chapter of the book to pairing chocolate with wines and spirits.

Customer Review: Wine Lover’s Chocolate! Heck! Anybody who loves chocolate!
If you’re a chocolate lover you’re in for an orgas….uhmmm…maybe I shouldn’t use that word here. Just suffice it to say that this is some of the BEST chocolates I’ve ever eaten…they come in cute metal tins full of little pillows of pure heaven! San Francisco Chocolate leaves Cadbury, Hershey, Russel Stover, Whitmans and other domestic chocolate just tasting like sawdust!

This set of dark chocolate is an exciting way to teach your tastebuds how chocolate really should taste. I love the higher percentage dark, my husband prefers the lower…and chocolate truly is a nice compliment to wine.

We order these at Christmas and use them as stocking stuffers!

337 Lodi Cabernet Sauvignon is a full red wine that works with meals – Plain Dealer

Plain Dealer

337 Lodi Cabernet Sauvignon is a full red wine that works with meals Plain Dealer Where we found it: The wine is widely available. Tasting notes: This medium-red wine has scents of black fruit and herbs. The flavors of black cherries and … Look it up: 'Fiasco' means great wineMail Tribune Unbridled EuphoriaTrue/Slant all 6 news articles »

Two and a half glasses of wine – Korea Times

OregonLive.com

Two and a half glasses of wine Korea Times Our son-in-law, a wine lover, purchased a case of red wine from this winery and for a week, we had a bottle of wine at every meal at dinner time. … JD Wine Cellars to open this weekendRocNow Kicking off weekly Tasty Trio listing of winery things to do this weekendPennLive.com (blog) Drink up the Science of WineAshland Daily Tidings all 11 news articles »

Wine Lover’s Chocolates – Set of 3 Tins
This gourmet collection features discs of luscious dark chocolate of increasingly rich cocoa intensities, and made to compliment a specific varietal.

We’ve selected three different cocoa intensities for you in our collection to compliment varietals such as Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Zinfandel.

Group of investors buy Dallas-based Centennial Fine Wine and Spirits – Dallas Morning News

Group of investors buy Dallas-based Centennial Fine Wine and Spirits Dallas Morning News North Texas' largest chain of liquor stores, Centennial Fine Wine and Spirits, has been acquired by an investor … and more »

Kim Jong-il may be a wino but did not buy Les Forts de Latour 2009 – Independent

Kim Jong-il may be a wino but did not buy Les Forts de Latour 2009 Independent Decanter.com, a previously prestigious wine news site, reported the entire lot of Les Forts de Latour 2009, a second wine from Chateau Latour, was purchased … and more »

Adventurous Wine Architecture
Some of the world’s best architects are reshaping the winery as a bold expression of innovation and tradition, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality. This survey of significant recent work shows how winery buildings serve prodcuers and consumers and give enlightened wine makers an edge in a fiercely competitive market. Featured architects include Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Rafael Moneo, Glenn Murcutt, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers. Projects are in California and Canada; Spain, Italy and Austria; Chile and Argentina; Australia and New Zealand. Adventurous Wine Architecture will enlighten and inspire the most dedicated oenophile and the casual wine lover, and will transport you to some of the most idyllic places on earth.

Customer Review: Winw itsef is an adventure
The worldwide selection of good wines to-day is so varied and good-tasting that choosing among wines you never met before is like an adventure. Unfortunately many a wineyard owner is courageus enough to make wine which is of a different elk but everything else connected to these new wines is still wearing yesterday’s suits and skirts. Why is that? Whatever the answer to that question is, the plain fact is that only a few chais or bodegas taste like the wine made inside. Books like this are good in making people understand what relation there is between the wine and the way its home looks.