Kanye West Interrupts Tropical Storm Beryl…
May 28, 2012
Wine Cat Problems.
May 26, 2012
What are Vertical and Horizontal Wine Tastings?
May 25, 2012
5 Million Bottles of English Bubbly to be Sold by 2015.
May 25, 2012
According to reports, sales of English sparkling wine are set to hit 5 million bottles by 2015.
There are almost 400 vineyards in the UK now, almost twice that of 10 years ago.
“We have a unique terroir that makes English sparkling wine special. It’s more expensive to produce than Champagne, the cost of land is higher and yields are lower.” said Ridgeview winemaker Charlie Holland.
“It’s a fallacy to say you can’t ripen grapes in England. We’re a very cool climate region, but this allows for a long growing season, helping grapes develop full phenolic ripeness, a full flavour profile and natural sugars,” said Holland.
And it’s not just in the UK where English wines are seeing success, with exports now accounting for 20% of Ridgeview’s sales.
“Exports are a massive thing for us. We’re seeing great success in New York, Holland, Belgium, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia – there isn’t the same stigma there for English sparking as we’ve experienced in France, Spain and Italy,” Holland said.
Posted in News | Tagged Champagne, England, Sparkling Wine | Leave a comment //Fish Tacos with Jalapeno-Lime Guacamole and Cabbage Slaw Paired with Vidonya Vinho Verde.
May 24, 2012
Ahhhhhh fish tacos!
I definitely put fish tacos in my top 5 favorite foods of all time. Simple, affordable, healthy and usually inexpensive. I’ve always said that if I was going to open my own restaurant, the simplest and guaranteed-not-to-fail concept I can think of is a taco restaurant. You don’t have to have the best ingredients in order to make a phenomenal dish (therefore your overhead is low), the ticket times on food will be short and who doesn’t like tacos!?!?! No-one, is that answer to that question! And if they do, I don’t want to meet them!
I always have the worst luck in buying avocados i.e. finding them at a decent level of ripeness.
They should ideally yield a little to you squeezing them, and since the avocados at the grocery store had the pliability of a cannonball, I returned home and sent a text message to the Mrs saying: “Can you pick up 3 ripe avocados from Publix. What time will you be home?”
“Just leaving work. You suck.” was her response, to which I interpreted as a “yes dear!”…
Wine Cellars and Aging Wine with Gary Vaynerchuk and Joseph & Curtis.
May 23, 2012Cool video interview I found with my good friends cellar builders Joseph & Curtis!
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