Just in case summer ever comes, after this bizarrely chilly spring!—boy, am I ready.
In fact, I’ve been ready every June, since time immemorial…because, without doubt, my favorite gastronomic thing to do in summer is sit around a table piled high with cooked whole crabs…sucking on an electric bottle of dry Riesling!
You may think Ketel One Vodka, one of the leading vodka brands in America, has been around forever. In one sense, it almost has. In another sense…it most certainly has not!
I explain…and I can explain, because…
I was in Schiedam, Holland recently, the home of Ketel One Vodka–a thrilling trip!–to get the whole time line. As well as a little schnockered.
Hoo-hah! Big news! I am getting into bed with Languedoc-Roussillon! I have long been fascinated by the wines, the red wines in particular, of this vast territory in south-central France.
And…as you perhaps know…I made the decision a year ago to start working on wine imports (I’ll STILL be wearing my journalist hat at the same time, of course!). I was just gettin’ tired of seeing the kinds of wines I love for food…so little available in the U.S.! So I grouped the hard-to-find, food-lovin’ wines into ten categories.
There is NOOOO doubt whatsoever, not a shred: my favorite white wine grape in the world is Riesling. Furthermore, my favorite white wine in the world is dry Riesling, preferably from Germany. Dry Riesling! Dry Riesling! And thereby hangs an American tragedy…
For we Yanks…going back to our experience with the cheap German imports that flooded our market post-World-War-II…have typically sneered at the concept of Riesling.
I recently spent a thoroughly beguiling three nights at The Meadowood Resort on the Silverado Trail in Napa Valley; really and truly, if you’re planning a Napa fantasy, you should most definitely book one of their mountainside cottages as your accommodation. The luxury, the pampering, the comfort…not to mention the fact that you feel so strongly that you are in a rural place.
