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Cheese Fest Returns and Brings Italian Buffalos, Marketing Wine to a Younger Generation that Doesn’t Seem Interested, CA Sparkling Wine Continues to Sparkle and 2019 Strong for Zinfandel and More!
Got to try my first sample of true Mozzarella di Bufala at the restarted California Artisan Cheese Festival and found it tasty and also found that the California wine industry is not doing its best in trying to reach younger drinkers
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Is Napa’s Main Crop Cash, Not Grapes? The Lady is a Wine Legend But You’ve Never Heard of Her, Clean Wine – Not So Much and More!
The wine writer for the Wall Street Journal recently shared her thoughts regards the high prices in Napa wine and hotels drawing a response from the San Francisco Chronicle that shared where you can get a bagel for $2.50.
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He’s Tasted 250,000 Wines In 40 Years, Gallo Grows Yet Again, Panera Bread Joins the Chicken Sandwich Battle – Sort of, Kendell-Jackson Goes to the Races, Please Consider for Your next Visit
I’ve followed James Suckling with the Wine Spectator magazine and now into his own tasting company. While what he tastes is usually beyond my budget his thoughts are still relevant and entertaining
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Reports on Thieving, Tendering, Millennials, Illinois Wine Wants More Space, My Shipments Bigger than Yours and of Course More
We sampled chicken tender offerings from four of the chicken sandwich competitors…We thiefed our way through a barrel tasting up in Hopland up and Illinois wineries want more shelf space, that and more of course.
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We Taste A Top Ten Value Wine, Wine Drinkers Aren’t Getting Any Younger, The Cost of Wine Hasn’t Gone up But The Price of The Bottle Has, Sort of & Coca-Cola Remakes Fresca Into An Adult Beverage & More
I’ll share our tasting of a top rated wine, the problems facing the wine industry with an aging market place, problems with the supply of wine bottles
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Barrel to Bottle Bash at the Dutton’s, How California Came to Define American Wine, Wine & Food Matches Miss at St. Francis & More!
The “Barrel to Bottle Bash!” offered visitors the unique opportunity to sample four wines from the 2021 vintage “thieved” from their barrels but my first taste came from a concrete egg…
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What We Drank for Thanksgiving, No Wine Bargains for Christmas, I’ll Have Wine with My Pie, Where’s the Tractor? Wine for Christmas and NYE
I did my standard Thanksgiving presentation: a brined turkey stuffed with only vegetables, basically poached in chicken stock on a Weber filled with hickory smoke.
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“It Messes with the Chemistry of the Grapes”
The overall measure of the harvest is positive and frankly a bit giddy as every other aspect of the growing season was rather perfect.
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We Forge Our Own Wine Trail, One Chicken Two Fries; Build a Better Burger and Winning Wines
We were quite looking forward to a very nice Alexander Valley Winegrowers Association tasting event as part of my birthday celebration; damn Covid surge forced another cancelation.
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Woody’s New Business Cards
Woody’s new business cards have come in!
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Top Sonoma Caterer Makes it Through Covid
It was some 14 years ago when I met Chef Bruce Riezenman at a Sonoma Vintners Association luncheon in Chicago. I featured him in that months Woody’s Whine – he still has a photo from that interview on his computer…
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A Magna Cum Laude Learns About Wine – Sort of, Subway Swings and Taps Foul, Costco Sales Strong, Plenty of Fire But No Water and Gallo Lands Strong
The Wall Street Journal’s wine writer recently tutored a 22 year old magna cum laude college graduate through wine tasting 101. I thought you might like to audit the class through my lens.
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Three Wine Lists, Two Chicken Sandwiches, Some Wine Notes and Fun Facts
Wine lists come in all formats and sizes from the little fake leatherette “distributor “ booklets in small mom-and-pop Italian restaurants and little Chinese or Thai places or truly overwhelming at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa where the list draws from a cellar of a half million bottles and is chained to the table.
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Woody's Whines // Woody's thoughts and opinions on a variety of subjects
Cheese Fest Returns and Brings Italian Buffalos, Marketing Wine to a Younger Generation that Doesn’t Seem Interested, CA Sparkling Wine Continues to Sparkle and 2019 Strong for Zinfandel and More!
Writing from the edge of the Russian River in Sonoma County Got to try my first sample of true Mozzarella di Bufala at the restarted California Artisan Cheese Festival and found it tasty and also found that the California wine industry is not doing its…
Is Napa’s Main Crop Cash, Not Grapes? The Lady is a Wine Legend but You’ve Never Heard of Her, Clean Wine – Not So Much and More!
Writing from the edge of the Russian River in Sonoma County The wine writer for the Wall Street Journal recently shared her thoughts regards the high prices in Napa wine and tourism drawing a response from the San Francisco Chronicle that shared where you can…
Wine Reviews // Tasty and reasonably priced reviews
How I’m Buying Wine These Days at a Great Discount
Writing from the edge of the Russian River in Sonoma County I’ll get to discounted wine in a minute but thought I’d let you know I’ll also be sharing info on food friendly wines; Popeyes a year later; how Trumps bad tariffs are killing wine…
Bordeaux You Could Actually Buy
Research tells me that the second label bottles of many Bordeaux wines – that’s what doesn’t fit in the first blend of major Chateaus, will be outstanding and probably at very good prices, a reflection of the old saw, “a rising tide lifts all boats”…..
Woody's Recipes // Great meals to go with great wines
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Latest Podcasts // Audio from interviews with the industry greats
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Our most recent wine adventure was a week long visit to the Willamette Valley wine country of western Oregon, what a remarkable area and what spectacular wines. It was the first week of October and the weather was terrific, sunny, warm and windy – they…
Chef and Retailer Michael Chiarello
As I travel and taste I always have my recorder and camera with me and I share those interviews with you at What Goes With What. We met at a wine tasting event in Chicago and on a trip to Napa and Sonoma I had an opportunity…