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Tuscan Style Chicken pairs perfectly with Blue Ostrich Winery and Vineyard’s Sangiovese

Courtesy Blue Ostrich Winery The Sangiovese grape is widely grown in the Tuscany region of northern Italy and is the primary grape used in making the Italian wine style known as ...

Something About Summer that Unleashes the Fun

By Tom Marquardt and Patrick Darr There is something about summer that unleashes the fun in us. Even the oldest of us take childish delight in stepping outside to enjoy the outdoors, whether ...

Winemakers redefine tradition

By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR About the time you think you finally grasp how wine is being made, someone nudges aside a tradition to redefine tradition. In the 1970s Italian wine ...

Creating every-day wine: Luxury from grapes of Languedoc Roussillon

By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR As French wine regions go, they don’t get any bigger than Languedoc-Roussillon. Located in the southwest corner of the country, the region once has about ...

HBC Burger and Sweet Potato Wedges with Roasted Garlic Mayonnaise

8 oz ground beef chuck (80/20) 8 oz ground beef (70/30) 1 large red onion, sliced thin 1 bulb of garlic 1 cup of best quality mayonnaise, such as Sir Kensington’s 3 medium sized ...

Cult classic wine

By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR Bring up the subject of Sicily and most people will think first of the Cosa Nostra. Wine? Oh, yeah, aren’t they the ones who make marsala? And so it goes ...

Australian wine on the rise

By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR Las year was the 40th anniversary year of the 1976 Judgment of Paris, an historic even when the unheralded and undervalued chardonnays and cabernet sauvignons ...

Wines from Italy’s Soave Region

By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR It is often difficult keeping up with Italian wine growing regions even for those of us who work at it. So, it isn’t surprising that Soave – a Veneto region ...

Getting Wine Pairing Down To A Science

By Ray Isle, Food & Wine Until recently, I never thought of eating raspberries with nori. And I certainly never thought of pairing nori-wrapped raspberries with Cabernet. But then, I’m not ...

White Wines for Summer

By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR If you’re like most people, you spend your day in a fast-pace environment whether the task be taking care of the family or earning a paycheck by pushing ...

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