by Jo Diaz | Aug 30, 2021 | California, Carignan, Food & Wine, Grenache, Petite Sirah, Red Wine, Rosé, Sonoma County, Sonoma Valley, Wine
Big picture, for some big wines; not over the top wines, just big in flavor, style, and design. MATHIS WINES Wines submitted for review Sonoma Valley Grenache 2017, Mathis Vineyard – field blend ($32.00) Sonoma Valley Überblend 2017, Mathis Vineyard – Petite...
by Jo Diaz | Sep 2, 2020 | Food & Wine, Food and Wine, France, French Wine, History, History Wine, Rosé, Terroir, Wine
My theme is TERROIR; capturing the heart, soul, and essence of it. And, yes, there was most certainly wine education involved. Beautiful places I’ve been and photographed: Provence, France. [PHOTOS: Jo Diaz, all rights reserved.] You say Provence and I say...
by Jo Diaz | Aug 5, 2019 | Beaujolais, Flavors from the World of Wine, Food & Wine, Food and Wine, France, Gamay, Wine, Wine Business, Wine Country, Wine Culture, Wine Ed, Wine Education, Wine Folly: Magnum Edition of the Master Guide, Wine Travel, Wine Writer, Wine-Blog, Winemaker, Winemaking, Winery, Wines
PHOTO: Taken in the Beaujolais region of France, at the Georges Duboeuf’s Chateau, in Romaneche-Thorins, France. Georges Duboeuf is the highly regarded founder of Les Vins Georges Duboeuf. These are all of my own images from my trip to Beaujolais, with the...
by Jo Diaz | May 5, 2019 | Brut, Bubbly, Bubbly Wine, Chianti, Chianti Classico, Flavors from the World of Wine, Food & Wine, Imports, Italy, Le Marche, Sangiovese, Tuscany, Wine
Honestly, our American culture, in this May of 2019, has so drastically changed from when I was, say, 5-years old, in Maine. This seems unreal to me, now, but I do remember the first TV that came into my home. My dad was an early adopter of electronic gadgets. We had...
by Jo Diaz | Mar 11, 2019 | Food & Wine, Food and Wine, Italy, Red Wine, Tuscany, White Wine, Wine, Wine & Food, Winery, Wines
GUEST: I was a guest at Castello di Meleto, in Gaiole (the Chianti Classico region of Tuscany), as orchestrated by Michael Yurch, of The Bluest Sky Group. When we, as Americans, think of Italian cuisine, pasta immediately comes to mind, right? In a word association...
by Jo Diaz | Nov 8, 2018 | Benedictine Monks, Chianti Classico, Food & Wine, Food and Wine, Imports, Italy, Sangiovese, Tuscany, Wine, Wine Country, Wine Philology, Wine Travel, Winery, Wines
Wine Philology: Wine History I was the guest of Castello di Meleto in Gaiole ~ In the Chianti Classico region of Tuscany. Hosted by Antonia Caserta (sales manager) [PHOTO: Historical image from the Castello di Meleto website] Forget your daddy’s straw basket...
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