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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...