December Feature: The Feast of the Seven Fishes

6 December 2009

Find our most recent blog posts below, right after our Monthly Feature, and on our Wine of the Week page. At this time of year, my favorite meal has always been our Christmas Eve dinner. As a boy growing up in a New York Italian-American family, I would anticipate it almost as much as the [...]

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A Pair of Pretty Pinots

24 November 2009

Have been in a Pinot kind of mood these days, so I decided to do a quick post on two California Pinot Noirs that I recently enjoyed. Castle Rock Pinot Noir California Cuvee 2008 $12.99 Garnet in color, this affordable Pinot Noir has a woodsy berry nose. Light bodied, it offers both tart and sweet [...]

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November Feature: Savoring Zins

8 November 2009

Find our most recent blog posts below, right after our Monthly Feature, and on our Wine of the Week page. For some reason, I always associate zinfandel with autumn. It seems that as soon as the leaves start to turn and the first chill sets in, I get a craving for this rich red wine, [...]

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October Feature Little Plates; Big Flavors

11 October 2009

Find our most recent blog posts below, right after our Monthly Feature, and on our Wine of the Week page. It seems that the popularity of “little plates,” like tapas in Spain, cicchetti in Italy, or mezze in the Middle East, has returned. Usually enjoyed abroad on a stroll to a restaurant, they appear designed [...]

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Obsessed with Freshness?

25 September 2009

How long can you keep an opened bottle of wine before it goes bad? I often hear many people say a day or two. There also seems to be a plethora of gadgets and pumps designed to protect our precious wine from wine’s arch enemy, oxygen. Personally, I have at times kept an open bottle [...]

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This Stinks!

12 September 2009

If wine were a religion, Verona Italy’s Bottega del Vino would be its cathedral. And at this Mecca for wine lovers, when a bottle of wine is ordered, the capsule is skillfully turned into a cork holder, remaining attached to the neck of the bottle. Then, the first ounce or so of wine is poured [...]

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Pasta Fagioli with Mussels

10 September 2009

Here’s a great pasta dish with beans and mussels from my friend Luciano Castiello and executed by the minimalist-chef  and N.Y. Times columnist Mark Bittman.  Once again, we see that the beauty of Italian cooking, as opposed to French cuisine, is that it celebrates the ingredients more than the chef. The links below the photo [...]

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September Feature: Pizza Pizazz

6 September 2009

Find our most recent blog posts below, right after our Monthly Feature., and on our Wine of the Week page. For many of us, pizza is almost a weekly ritual. There seems to be that one night, when we get home late, we’re tired and just don’t want to cook. Or maybe it’s the night [...]

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Our New Look

1 September 2009

When we started Tablewine in September of 1996, web design tended to be a little more ornate than it is now. Everything seemed to be about appearance: tiled backgrounds, shadowed borders, navigation menus that zoomed in and out or floated up and down, and on and on. Today, however, websites, and specifically blogs, though they [...]

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Developments

1 September 2009

As you can see, we have the beginnings of  the TableWine blog.  Our new style is clean and simple and echoes the original site with the TableWine logo. We’ve chosen the blog format to enourage more interaction with our readers and hope that you will share your views and opinions with us often. In addition [...]

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