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July 30th, 2010 | 
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This light colored Chard opens with a very fragrant tropical fruit bouquet. …
This light yellow colored white blend opens with an aromatic lychee bouquet with hints of orange and peach. …
This light yellow colored Oregon Chard opens with a mild apple bouquet with just a hint of apricot. …
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This very dark ruby colored red blend from Four Vines opens with a boysenberry and red currant bouquet with a hint of black pepper, beef jerky and oak. …
This very dark ruby colored Syrah opens with a ripe blackberry jam bouquet with hints of blueberry and vanilla. …
NORTH POWDER, Ore. — Huckleberry lovers should mark Saturday on their calendars. That’s the date of the fourth annual North Powder Huckleberry Festival in Oregon.
Tickets still are available for the Prosser Wine & Food Fair on Aug. 14.
Weekly recipes for July 28, 2010
A California study raises questions about olive oil quality and highlights lax federal rules
The new Grand Award winner’s wine director, Sophie Otton, shows there’s more to Australia’s wine lists than Shiraz
This ruby colored Pinot opens with a fragrant ripe black cherry bouquet. …
This may be one of the best Beaujolais Villages offerings that I can recall. …
This bright ruby colored Pinot opens with a fragrant strawberry bouquet with a hint of black raspberry in the background. …
Whatever you do, don’t call them dessert
Corn on the cob has appeared in Montreal with the taste we
remember all year long. It’s not a sure bet yet; of four cobs
sampled this week, two had that crisp, fresh, sweet jolt of flavour
we like so much, while two were good, but on the starchy side.
Prices in the public markets -usually the best place to buy fresh
corn -are high, but should come down as the season advances. So far,
all the corn is the twocolour type, but all-yellow cobs are ripening
fast.
This light yellow colored Chard opens with a mild cantaloupe like bouquet. …
This opaque and very dark purple colored wine opens with a very jammy boysenberry bouquet with some blackberry detected as well. …
This dark red colored Zin was very popular at a charity tasting we were hosting. …
This ruby colored wine opens with a mild cherry vanilla bouquet. …
This ruby colored Pinot Noir opens with a fragrant red raspberry bouquet with hints of mild oak and nutmeg. …
King pin. Head honcho. Top dog. You can picture the kind of person I’m talking about. A chef is all those things. Chef is a precise word: it connotes responsibility and experience, and there is only one chef in a professional kitchen.
Funny how everyone seems to have a stored memory of a picnic
-of a meal enjoyed outdoors, blankets or throws laid over grass or
sand, the taste of whatever we ate enhanced by the air or the light
or the beauty of our surroundings, good cheer in abundance.
Plus, a potential treasure chest of Champagne at the bottom of the Baltic Sea and the Tour de France heads to Bordeaux
Foster’s renames its wine division; Diageo sells a major Bordeaux firm
This very dark purple colored wine opens with a fragrant and very attractive blackberry bouquet with hints of peppermint and black licorice. …
This light yellow colored Chard opens with a very attractive light oak, pear, and spice bouquet. …
This dark ruby colored Pinot opens with a very attractive black raspberry bouquet with a hint of red currant and oak. …
Which wine with which cut of steak? Find out from Drew Hendricks, who oversees the Grand Award-winning list at Pappas Bros. in Houston