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Roasted Pork with Apples and Onions: The Alsatian Pairing for Pinot Gris
If you grew up watching The Brady Bunch, you know the scene. Peter Brady is going through a phase — convinced he has no personality — and decides the solution is to walk around the house doing a Humphrey Bogart impression. At dinner, in full Bogie deadpan, he...
Pinot Blanc & Pinot Gris: What to Expect in the Glass
The most useful question you can ask about any wine is not "is this good?" It is "what is this for?" Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris answer that question differently. They share a region, a general style category (dry Alsatian white), and a grape family (both are...
Sélection de Grains Nobles: The Rarest Wine in the Alsatian Cellar
Every wine region has an expression that sits at the absolute edge of what is possible — the wine made only in rare years, only from specific conditions, only in tiny quantities, that demonstrates what the place and the grape are capable of when everything aligns....
Wine Was Never Meant to Be Consumed Alone
Wine is one of the few foods in history that has almost always been consumed alongside something else. This isn't arbitrary. It's structural. Throughout most of wine's history — in ancient Rome, in medieval France, in the farmhouse cellars of the Rhône — wine was part...
The Other Pinots: Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, and the Full Alsatian Picture
Last week we spent time with Riesling — the grape that defines Alsace's reputation and anchors its most serious wines. This week we stay in the region and shift focus to the grapes that do most of the everyday work: Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris. They are less...
Coq au Riesling: The Dish That Teaches a Region
There is a class of dishes that teaches a region more directly than any description. Coq au Riesling is one of them. The logic of the dish is simple: braise chicken in the wine of the region, with the aromatics of the region's cooking — pancetta, leeks,...
Recipe: Rich Egg Yolk Pasta Dough
My husband is known for his amazing homemade pasta, and after decades of experimenting, he swears this recipe from...
Dry Riesling: What It Is and Why It Matters
Dry Riesling is one of the most underestimated wines at the table. Part of the problem is the name. "Riesling" carries associations — in many people's minds — with sweetness, with German labels that are difficult to read, with the kind of wine someone's...
Riesling and Determing Sweetness: How to Read an Alsatian Label
Riesling has a problem that isn't actually a problem with the grape. The problem is communication. Pick up a bottle of Alsatian Riesling and the label will tell you the producer, the grape, and the vintage. What it may not tell you clearly — and this is the...
What Role Is Your Glass Actually Playing?
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the wine world has a complicated relationship with that conversation. We talk about wine as relaxation. As reward. As the thing you pour after a hard day. And there's nothing wrong with any of that — except when we stop...
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