Entries for April 2010

Tasty Times at Crystal Springs

April 29, 2010 01:24 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

I’ve been invited to some of the happenings this weekend at the Second Annual New Jersey Food and Wine Festival—a weekend-long event that kicks off Friday, April 30, at the Crystal Springs Resort in Sussex County.

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Under the Volcano

April 22, 2010 06:20 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

The volcanic eruption in Iceland last week has me thinking a lot about one of my favorite wines—Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Rosso—a red wine from the vineyards on Sicily’s Mount Etna—the most active volcano in Europe.

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Good Drinking Wines

April 16, 2010 01:21 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

A swarm of buyers and journalists descended on France a couple of weeks ago for the Bordeaux en primeur—a yearly event to taste and assess barrel samples of the current vintage and to sell a portion of the wine as futures—long before they are bottled. By all accounts it was a frenetic event.

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Embracing the Spirit

April 09, 2010 02:51 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

The textbook for my spirits class arrived last week and I jumped ahead to the chapter on grappa—a distillate made from grape pomace (vinaccia in Italian)—the pulpy residue left after the grapes have been pressed.

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Bottoms Up

April 02, 2010 01:38 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

I find “hard liquor”—whiskey, vodka, tequila, mescal, brandy, rum, vodka, and gin—fascinating from a production standpoint. Drinking the stuff however, is not my cup of tea. In fact, I never touch it. That’s about to change—only for academic reasons—as I undertake the letter “S” portion of my WSET (Wine and Spirits Education Trust) Diploma.

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