Marian Janssen op de Haar, Wine Director, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, Newport Beach, California, provides tips on pairing wines with barbeque. Review and Tasting of three wines that match up well with barbeque: 2004 Zilliken Butterfly Riesling, 2003 Yalumba Bush Vine Barossa Grenache, and 2003 Dry Creek Vineyard Heritage Zinfandel...

Marian Janssen op de Haar, Wine Director, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, Newport Beach, California, provides tips on pairing wines with barbeque. Review and Tasting of three wines that match up well with barbeque: 2004 Zilliken Butterfly Riesling, 2003 Yalumba Bush Vine Barossa Grenache, and 2003 Dry Creek Vineyard Heritage Zinfandel...

Marian Janssen op de Haar, Wine Director, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, Newport Beach, California, provides tips on pairing wines with barbeque. Review and Tasting of three wines that match up well with barbeque: 2004 Zilliken Butterfly Riesling, 2003 Yalumba Bush Vine Barossa Grenache, and 2003 Dry Creek Vineyard Heritage Zinfandel...

Marian Janssen op de Haar, Wine Director, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, Newport Beach, California, provides tips on pairing wines with barbeque. Review and Tasting of three wines that match up well with barbeque: 2004 Zilliken Butterfly Riesling, 2003 Yalumba Bush Vine Barossa Grenache, and 2003 Dry Creek Vineyard Heritage Zinfandel...

... collection of ice wines in the region, so despite our general disinterest (prior to that point) in Niagara ... for a summer’s BBQ for Wine Blogging Wednesday #23 . Other possibilities included ‘Ambrosia’, which...

... as a pairing for one of their wines (a Gewürtz if memory serves). We bellied up to the tasting bar ... , and we hadn’t even tasted the wines yet. On with the show: Want a solid Ontario Riesling? You ... , of summer and strolls along a forest path. As for myself, I found it a little too sugary for my ... and looking for a smaller vineyard to hit up for some quality wines that can be difficult to get off...

Just recently I posted about wineries going organic, and it is nice to see that wine folks out there in the industry actually read my little ol' blog here because I soon heard from the nice folks at Charles Krug... Continue .

Have written many times about Coturri Wines - no matter how much I like them - I would be remiss by not admitting - that they're not for everyone - Rich - syrupy - all natural - they are what I call real wines - So I opened a bottle of Coturri - Zinfandel - 2002 - with a summer night steak BBQ - offering my wife a taste - expecting her to immediately switch to a cool white Sauvignon Blanc...

... for throwing back shots - no worm in the bottom (that's actually Mexcal) - this is a subtle summer cognac...

The bi-weekly - double blind tasting - is always a grab bag - in fact - to protect their identities - most bottles are brought in brown bags - or - plastic supermarket bags - or - newspaper secured by rubber-bands - or - my favorite - aluminum foil - Lots of good - solid wines - an occasional ... be a Rose - this one was a winner - lots of body - matched with full flavor - Rose is the great summer...