by Jo Diaz | Nov 20, 2022 | Alentejo, Food & Wine, Portugal, Portuguese wine, Sustainablility, Wine, Wine & Food, Wine and Food, Wine Ed, Wine Education, Wine HIstory
Here come the holidays, and it’s when we think about wine a lot, for so many festivities, all jammed in at the end of the year. This isn’t my first story about Portuguese wines lately. I’m still exploring wines from the Alentejo region, because of...
by Jo Diaz | Jul 4, 2022 | Alentejo, Portugal, Rosé, White Wine, Wine, Wine & Food, Wine and Food, Wine Appreciation, Wine Blogger, Wine Country, Wine Culture, Wine Ed, Wine Education, Wine HIstory, Wine Samples, Wine tasting, Wine Travel, Winemaking, Winery, Wines, Wines of Portugal
Why discovering Portuguese history, and some wines from Portugal’s Esporão Group, helps to put wine into an overall perspective. Culture plays an enormous role in what the flavors of wine become. Yes, we can grab a bottle of wine and just throw it back, but...
by Jo Diaz | Feb 5, 2020 | Wine, Wine & Food, Wine and Food, Wine Book, Wine Business, Wine Education, Wines, Wne and Food
I first became aware of Tim Hanni, while producing the Petite Sirah symposium (from 2002, until 2013). Tim was recommended to me as a guest speaker, by Patricia Schneider. It was then that I learned he was a wine educator. He was living in California at the time....
by Jo Diaz | Nov 30, 2019 | Beaujolais, France, Gamay, Wine, Wine & Food, Wine Business, Wine Education, Wine tasting, Wine Travel
Off to the Morgon region of Beaujolais, France we go… Morgon Wines: Think in adjective sizes, for a moment: delicate, moderate, and robust. Beaujolais wines, coming from specific regions, are classified in this way, due to their terroir influences. It helps to...
by Jo Diaz | Mar 28, 2019 | Italy, Musings, Travel, Wine, Wine & Food, Wine tasting, Wine Travel, Wine Writer, You've Got to Be Kidding Me
This was the point where I should have taken a bow… Hindsight is always 20/20 vision, right? So, I’m a guest of Colonnara Viticultori in Cupramontana ~ In the Castelli di Jesi region of Le Marche. This day, we were having lunch at family Ristorante in a...
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...
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