//Engaging the senses

Engaging the senses

Que Syrah, Sirah

As we come up on the 40th anniversary of the Paris wine tasting that, for many, put the United States (and especially California) firmly on ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 May 4, 2016|

A Taste for Elsewhere

Visiting the world’s major wine regions is a great opportunity for education, not only about wine but about taste. We can taste in our homes ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 April 27, 2016|

Whose Wine is Best?

Given that there are tens of thousands of wines available to consumers all over the world, this is a pretty ridiculous question but it gets ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 April 20, 2016|

Here’s Looking at You, Kid

Brazilian fashion photographer Marcos Alberti had an idea. He says, “There is a saying about wine that I really like and it's something like this, ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 April 13, 2016|

Tasting with Social Media

I’ve been speaking this week at the Hispanicize 2016 conference in Miami, a gathering of nearly 3,000 Hispanic bloggers and social media activists. In cooperation ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 April 7, 2016|

Belly Laughs

For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking at some of the basics that show how wine and food go together by digging in to ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 April 1, 2016|

Pairing with Pasta

Last week I wrote about the Spring Edition Interactive Dinner VeritageMiami staged on March 11. The focus of last week’s post was pairing wine with ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 March 23, 2016|

Raising the Bar, Raising a Glass

Last Friday, VeritageMiami raised the bar on our annual interactive dinners by having six chefs on stage for the first of two interactive extravaganzas this ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 March 16, 2016|

Wine for the Naked Lunch

The hardest sell I face in sharing wine with friends is persuading them to try a sweet wine. “Sweet wine? Ugh,” they say. “Real wine ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:33-04:00 March 9, 2016|

Simple Pleasures

There are many reasons I love wine – I love the variety of tastes it brings us and how it enhances a meal. Even more, ...

By | 2017-10-30T10:26:34-04:00 March 2, 2016|