By Terry Sweeney Now I’m no “fizzicist” but I am quite fond of sparkling wines and champagne with their festive little pearls of CO2 that happily tickle my nose and help me forget I have no health insurance. Perhaps it’s [...]
By Terry Sweeney On the chilly evenings that mark this time of the year, in order to get myself in the holiday spirit, I call on an old friend — a bottle of peppery, tummy-warming, ruby-colored Zinfandel. It pairs beautifully [...]
By Terry Sweeney You know winter is our time to get down with some spicy, heart-warming, berry-bustin’ reds that make us want to throw another log on the fire and kick back with some sultry French jazz, letting our minds [...]
By Terry Sweeney Around this celebratory time of year, when food and drink — and more drink and a little more food and a lot more drink — abound, I always feel as though I should send my liver a [...]
By Terry Sweeney Oh, yes! On November 15, the third Thursday of this month, that famous fermented French Kool-aid will arrive all over the world with a lot of rooting and tooting of horns and screaming headlines of “Le Beaujolais [...]
By Terry Sweeney Just as where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and where there’s crazy, there’s Lindsay Lohan, where there’s a grape growing on a vine in Tuscany, you’re sure to find an olive tree. In the Mediterranean, olive groves often [...]
By Terry Sweeney I am making a vow, right here and now, not to annoy my Happy Wino friends by pointing out any more of my wishful-thinking signs of fall being just around the corner. When it’s cold outside and [...]
By Terry Sweeney You know I don’t ever think about having a bottle of red wine … unless I see one. Then it’s on. Before I know it, I’m savoring its fruity goodness, its terroir-soaked silkiness, and its warm fuzzy [...]
By Terry Sweeney You know there are some fabulous yet inexpensive California white wines that pair beautifully with the biggest stars in the shrimp world: prawns. Or so I thought. But I was wrong. Not about the wine of course, [...]
By Terry Sweeney Earlier this year, at the San Francisco Chronicle’s 2012 Wine Competition, American wines competed for bronze, silver and gold medals. More than 300 wineries sent their best to this: the largest competition of American Wines in the [...]
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