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Slovenia is a small wine country with a interesting mixture of influences and climatic conditions. In the north eastern wine growing region of PODRAVJE (named after the Drava river), the wines are more Austrian...

I try to drink something new all the time, but have noticed that I am exceptionally fond of white burgundy and German riesling. These two types of wine match very well with my taste: fresh, dry, complex, carefully balanced...

Expectations and experience tend to soften excitement in wine, muffling the high pitch of greatness to meager moans. It can be difficult to savor the high highs once a sensory resume has been established, just as the...

Experiments in the Vegetarian Kitchen with Beaujolais and Butternut Mac & Cheese Karen UlrichIMBIBE NEW YORK Tucked away just south of Mâcon, at the tail end of Burgundy, sits Beaujolais—the oft neglected, yet vigorous...

Worth every guilty ounce of truffle cream sauce Cutting the fat with Dry Rielsing Eric Guido returns this week with a stunning Fettucini in Truffled Cream Sauce recipe. Using the the theory of...

I generally prefer it with very thin circular slices of lemon or other similar citrus fruit in it - Will it be too sour the taste? cigarman, have you noticed a dropoff in Shaosing quality after the Beijing Olympics?- It...

I think it is different species of hairy crab in Japan and I know that many Japanese is big fan for hairy crab and they even fly to Shanghai to eat hairy crabs. We do also have frozen king crab from Hokkaido and also my...

I will agree with previous writers who have said it is hard to find a bad wine. I like to cook. For the first time, I decided to cook with wine because some 'discontinued' wines were on sale. I didn't cook with wine...

I guess the best way to put it is that I started and still go with, exceptionally large wines, but I think I have shifted from the hotter high alcohol Zins (that I still love but eh), to a darker and richer Tempranillo...

Eric, I've had considerable experience with wine and cigars over the years, and have a few friends like yours who are fiends for cigars first, and wine second, even though they claim to be serious about good wines. I tend...