Primitivo never used to be a wine that anyone took much notice of. For years grape growers used to grow it and then send it north to the more famous areas of Tuscany and Piemonte to add body (and a bit of alcohol) to the lighter wines made up there. That was until our cousins …
#NWTW Week 43: Primitivo, Where Would We Be Without The US? Read More »
Me oh my have I eaten a lot of medium rare beef this week! Great thing about Zinfandel is that pretty much any grilled or barbequed meat will go great with it, but after my good mate Paolo made me Tagliata in the week, I had to try to make it myself too. Cue the …
#NWTW Week 16: The Verdict On Californian Zinfandel Read More »
As much as I really enjoyed last week’s foray into vegetarianism, I think it’s definitely back to the meat counter for me this week.
One of the things we’ve tried to do in NWTW is to go round the wine-making world and pick out the grapes that really define the country we’ve picked for that week. For our first visit to the USA we had to go for Zinfandel. It’s only grown in the USA and has become a …
#NWTW Week 16: Zinfandel, The USA’s Very Own Grape…Almost! Read More »
Oi oi the Led Zep reference to kick things off! Funnily enough whenever I think of California that’s the kind of things I think about. I grew up in the 80s and 90s in the UK, with our TVs littered with Baywatch and The OC and stuff like that. It makes you think of beautifully …
#NWTW Week 16: Going To California…er, Without The Aching In My Heart! Read More »
So I was after a fairly full on red wine for this week. Unfortunately the three or four beautiful sunny days we’ve had for spring in the UK so far have proved to be a bit of a false dawn. It’s bloody minging outside right now, so I thought we could all do with a …
This is my first blog for a few days. I’ve been out in San Sebastian in Northern Spain for my stag do for a long weekend. The (heavily-edited) blog that follows that one will be soon enough, but first it’s time to finish off the introduction to Southern Italy. So as with Bordeaux Broken Down, …
Southern Italy Simplified #3 – What To Be Looking For? Read More »
