Posts Tagged ‘tasting’

Learning to Taste

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Everyone knows how to taste, right? It is one of the five senses that we are born with, so it stands to reason that there is not much to be learned. While it is true that tasting is something that we do naturally, it is also true that it is something that we can learn [...]

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Pairing Food With Wine (and vice versa)

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

There is so much misinformation out there about how food and wine should be paired up. Let’s start with the most widely stated “rule.” We’ve all heard that red wine goes with red meat and white wine goes with fish and poultry. This is pairing at its most basic, only useful on a very rudimentary [...]

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Wine Tasting Party?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Last night I attended a wine tasting held in a shop owned by a friend of my wife. The event was fun and appeared to be a successful way for her to get people into her store. Nothing wrong with that, it is a nice shop and the people running it are exceptionally nice themselves.. [...]

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