Why would a winegeek like me want to write about two weeks without wine? Well, it’s not some experiment to see if I can go without. You see, like many folks in this country, I have a good too many pounds around the waistline. And I’ve heard from a couple of docs that while my […]

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While watching my guilty-pleasure reality show Top Chef last night, I was flabbergasted that the chefs chose to forgo serving wine with an Italian dinner. Although the decision was a budget issue, I feel that they could have changed their menu around to make room in the budget for a few inexpensive and delicious wines.

About Wednesday’s episode
This week’s clever competition required the chefs to split into two teams and conceptualize, design, and open a restaurant in less than 2 days. The chefs were each given half of a semi-furnished restaurant space and were given full creative license to conceive of a theme and menu for their space and then execute it.

Good Wine
Well I hope everybody is having a fantastic Holiday. Firstly I’d like to apologise as I have been stacked out with lots of things over the last few weeks…but hey that’s December for you. Christmas presents are always hit and miss don’t you think? Well I’d like to give a big thanks to […]

Today is Wine Blogging Wednesday, the wine blog event held monthly. If you’re not familiar with it, WBW has wine bloggers all write about wines that follow a particular theme. Lenn at LennDevours started this a while back, and it’s a great thing to look forward to each month. This month’s event is sparkling wines other than Champagne.

You can read my post about six sparkling wines. Look for a wrap up by Culinary Fool this weekend.

Humans, especially guys it seems, love to make bets. We bet five bucks on the outcome of a ball game. We enter pools at the office on who will correctly pick the most wins in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament each March.

Recalling a story of mine got me to thinking–what other “wine bets” have gone on out there?

Here’s my story

Well… it’s the holiday season again. For many of us that means lots of shopping and wondering if the recipients of those gifts will like what we are getting them. This year I decided to make it easy on my friends and family by providing them with this musical list. I’ll spare you the agony of the first 11 days and get right down to the good stuff. Hummmmmmmm………

Lower cholesterol! Live longer! Improve cardiovascular health!

Those are some of the claims we hear every week from new studies celebrating the positive health effects of red wine.

Winesmith is happy to get regular doses of the good juice that provides all of these benefits. But I wish somebody could tell me why it messes with my sleep patterns so much.

Hello, I’m andrew99bell, and I’m from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Of course many of you will be thinking not a great hotbed for wines, well its time to think again. Through my postings and recommendations I hope to give people a greater insight into some of the great wines that we produce here in England.
At […]