Black Sea Wine

I'm Chad Carns, author of The Gourmet Bachelor - Global Flavor, Local Ingredients cookbook. I've been studying food and wine for years but I'm not a wine expert or a chef. I try to bring global food and expert wine...

“You’ll suddenly notice that no one invites you to dinner anymore.” My Chef instructor warned us one day during a class in culinary school. Just one of a number of humorous things he would tell us we could expect...

When a notion gets into Brad Kane’s head, he can become extremely insistent about it. He loves planning themed tastings. Verticals, horizontals, vertizontals, transversals, metarregionals... So, for a few months he’d...

Cantina Giacomo Ascheri Wines reviewed: 2007 Cristina Ascheri Gavi di Gavi 86pts 2005 Ascheri Podere di Montalupa Bianco (Viognier) 86pts 2007 Ascheri Dolcetto d’Alba Nirane...

One enters the courtyard at Burlotto through a small door in a big metal gate. Once that gate closes you could easily be stepping decades back in time, if one can ignore the incessant ringing of the phone that is. During...

Thus far in my Wine and Music pairings (which started in May), I have not included any "classical" music and have focused mostly on summery and zesty tunes that fit nicely with the recent warmer months and with less heavy...

The Sicilians say, that Sicily is a great place to live but a terrible place to work. The have the sun, the sea, the wine and the women, but they don't have the money and therefore, work is not priority. What can be done...

A Postcard from Sicily The Sicilians say, that Sicily is a great place to live but a terrible place to work. The have the sun, the sea, the wine and the women, but they don't have the money and therefore, work is not...