- The Organized Crime Winery of Ontario
Being an adult, scheduling, taking care of oneself, isn’t easy – but having 3 jobs, being in grad school, having family visit from the States, and Passover sales season descending – makes it that much harder. Here are some fun, fantastic things to help us all through, I hope:
The Assassin in the Vineyard: a MUST READ. I’ve mentioned the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti here before. Here is a real-life crime-drama, the likes of which you’d find in a Dan Brown novel or the silver screen. AND it happened just last year! Ancient French history, royalty, revolution, blackmail, suicide, and the finest wine in the world – you have GOT to read this story. Excellent writing from Maximillian Potter in Vanity Fair.
There is a food exhibition next week, the 5-7 of April called “Mevashlim“ (google translation to English). My winery (Golan Heights and Galil Mountain) will have a booth with several wines to taste there, and I will be working on Wednesday. It should be a lot of fun, as you get to taste the food of many many different restaurants, and I’m sure that we will not be the only winery there.
Food and Wine Pairings: A load of hooey? Yes and no. Always yes and no. I don’t have the energy to go into it. Drink wine with your meal if it makes you happy, why dontcha! But it’s been in the news lately, so check these out:
The lies, lies, lies of food and wine pairings - Washington Post
Are Food and Wine Pairings Completely Bogus? – Huffington Post
The Albatross That is Food and Wine Pairing - Vinography: a wine blog
Just for fun: 7 Wacky Wine Labels
Thanks Irene for all the links. I read your first one so far about wine pairing. Even if their stats are correct and 60% of wine heavy drinkers don’t eat while drinking, there are still 40% others that do, and all the light drinkers, even if a small minority. Enough crowd apparently for all the printed books on pairing:)
For one, I enjoy meals that are paired for me with different wines. I’m a light drinker and always eat while drinking. I usually can’t drink more that 2 glasses of wine during a meal, but those paired meals I’ve had I was able to drink up to seven drinks during the meal without getting drunk or feeling full. This is proof enough for me. What do you think?