Washington State’s scenic Woodinville Valley is just 30 minutes northeast of Seattle making it an ideal day trip for wine lovers. With 115 wineries and tasting rooms, as well as over two dozen restaurants and eateries, it’s worth an overnight or two to drink in the experience. Especially since this small area is home to the highest concentration of 90-plus point production wineries in a square mile.
Champagne still carries the badge for most prestige and also the highest price tag, but it does not have the lock on quality or romance. There are many excellent sparkling wines produced outside of the Champagne region, both in France and around the world.
The subject of pairing wine and food is an infernal one. Well, partially infernal.
September 1, 2015 Yes, we’ve been working on it all summer—an easier way for you to access and read the wide-ranging food, wine and travel stories I post on davidrosengarten.com…
Last Thursday, I was part of a panel at the NYU Food Studies Department, along with Florence Fabricant, and William Woys Weaver, exploring the history of wine in your glass…
2011 Blanc de Lynch-Bages, Bordeaux, France ($36) I love white Bordeaux—a definitely overlooked category—both for “great” wine, and everyday wine! This beauty is somewhere in-between; it has enough “seriousness” for…
In this country, we often err in judging things by color…and that applies to wine, too! As the summer begins, so does the vinous drumbeat: white wine, white wine, white…
Sweet wines—also called “dessert wines” for the food that most frequently accompanies them—always appear on connoisseurs’ lists of the greatest wines in the world. Sauternes. Vintage Port. Trockenbeerenauslese. These are…
Garrigue near a swimming pool at Domaine de Costes-Cirgue in the Languedoc Special Report from Montpellier, France Go to any posh tasting in the U.S. of wines from the south…
