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Chocolate and Red Wine

Here’s a chocolate maker, Brix, trying to tilt the chocolate towards wine. They succeed. It’s better than the sweeter commercial pairings to which I’ve been subjected. The suggested pairings here are: Milk Chocolate with Pinot Noir/Port [Ruby & Tawny I suspect]/Riesling/Icewine Medium Dark Chocolate (60%) with Merlot/Shiraz/Zinfandel/Rhone wine. (And this is the best pairing I’ve… Continue reading Chocolate and Red Wine

http://www.economist.com/node/17572224/email

http://www.economist.com/node/17572224/email. The Economist (issue Nov. 27th – Dec. 3rd, Cover shot of a farmer in a diving hard hat) has an article on the wine headache.  To sum it up, there are three wine molecules – peptides – that are close analogues of common allergens, including one that resembles ragweed pollen.  As I’ve been saying… Continue reading http://www.economist.com/node/17572224/email

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Travelling with Wine 2: The Huggies Edition

As you’d expect folks in the trade love wine, and are always buying interesting bottles they see in their travels. And the wine trade travels: if you work for a vineyard’s marketing branch you’re a serious road warrior with enough air miles to make Ryan Bingham jealous. Rodrigo Rodero of Chadwick wines (and by the… Continue reading Travelling with Wine 2: The Huggies Edition