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Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Tart, Built for Ruby Port

Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Tart, Built for Ruby Port

From left to right_ bottle of Tawny port, a small glad of golden Tawny port, backlit. Next to that to the right, is a small glass of deep ruby port and to the right again, is the bottle of Ruby Port.

Ruby vs. Tawny: Two Ports, One Decision About Time

Steep hillsides planted with vineyards on both sides of the Douro River. Village tot he left. River flows into the next mountainrange. Blue skies and puffy white clouds

Porto: Where Fermentation Stops on Purpose

The Sherry Tasting Table: Tapas and Cheese, Dry to Sweet

The Sherry Tasting Table: Tapas and Cheese, Dry to Sweet

Pedro Ximénez Is the Exception: How Human Choices Make Sherry Sweet

Pedro Ximénez Is the Exception: How Human Choices Make Sherry Sweet

The Sherry Range: A Taster’s Guide to Five Styles

The Sherry Range: A Taster’s Guide to Five Styles

Bitterness as Complexity: What Sherry Teaches About Noticing

Bitterness as Complexity: What Sherry Teaches About Noticing

Sherry: One Family, Bone-Dry to Sweet

Sherry: One Family, Bone-Dry to Sweet

Chorizo al Vino: The Most Direct Pairing in the Spanish Weeks

Chorizo al Vino: The Most Direct Pairing in the Spanish Weeks

Tempranillo vineyards on the Spanish countryside

Tempranillo: The Grape That Waits Well

Rioja: What Time Looks Like in a Glass

Rioja: What Time Looks Like in a Glass

Glass of Chiant in the forefront showing its medium ruby color in front of a wood bowl of pasta-al-pomodoro garnished with basil, bottle of Chianti Classico in the background.

Pasta al Pomodoro and Chianti Classico: The Pairing That Proves the Rule

Two glasses of red Sangiovese wine in a round wood tray with Sangiovese grapes toseed onto the same try with an out of focus vineyard in the background.

Sangiovese: Italy’s Given Grape, and the Bordeaux Grapes Beside It

Nice glass of red wine (Sangiovese) surrounded at the base by a half dozen beautiful ripe red tomatoes. Nice warm brown background, out of focus

Why Tomato Sauce Ruins Most Red Wine, and Not This One

Warm glow of a Tuscan sun. Orange in the background with purple hills showing off the Sangiovese garapevines in the foreground.

Chianti Classico: The Hills That Taught Italy to Cook

Barolo and Osso Buco alla Milanese

Barolo and Osso Buco alla Milanese

dark blue Nebbiolo grapes hang in full clusters ready to be picked, straight from teh vine with a full amount of grapes left on the vine for a canopy

Nebbiolo: The Grape That Refuses to Look Strong

Candles in the background, cut of red meat that has an abundance of collagen from the bone in the meat

Why Tannin Needs Fat

Barolo wine region in Piedmont, Italy, with vineyard-covered hills, a glass of red wine, and a Barolo road sign.

Piedmont: The Wine That Looks Light and Isn’t

Plate of short ribs with a glass of Valpolicella Ripasso

Ripasso and Red Wine-Braised Short Ribs

Corvina grapes drying on racks. Looks a bit like stair steps.

Corvina and the Slow Art of Drying Grapes

Background is the Italian hillside. Overlay is 3 bottles of Italian wine with different labels and symbols printed.

How to Read an Italian Wine Label (Without Knowing Italian)

Veneto: One Grape, Three Escalating Stories

Veneto: One Grape, Three Escalating Stories

Board mounding with blue cheese, honeycomb, walnuts topped with a couple of red grapes

Sweet Wine and Blue Cheese: The Pairing That Sounds Wrong and Isn’t

Creme brulee in a white ramekin. Two spoons dip into the creamy golden custard with broken shards of cirispy caramel with a bottle of icewine

The One Rule That Makes Dessert Wine Work

Frozen red grapes hanging on the vine while the vines are bare and snow is on the ground.

The Grape That Hangs On When Every Other Has Been Picked

Golden elixir of icewine being poured from a bottle into a glass. Backlit with black background.

Why a Great Sweet Wine Doesn’t Taste Like Syrup

SNowy foreground with rows and rows of brown vines backed by a line of trees whose leaves have fallen. Bright blue sky gives feeling of a stark cold morning.

Canada Makes the World’s Icewine Because Its Winters Can Be Trusted

Pouring pale golden Riesling from a green bottle into multiple wine glasses.

Three Glasses, One Grape

Sashimi platter with tuna, salmon, and yellowtail.

The Wine Raw Fish Has Been Waiting For