Cancer takes so many people too soon. It makes me so sad that families have to see their loved ones suffer. Cancer is just terrible in that respect. So many people losing so much…
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From The Archives: Chef Trotter & the Mushroom King
Carl has been a little under the weather the last couple of days. So we’ve decided to pull out one of our editor’s favorite early blogs from January 21, 2013, to re-run. This piece is about Carl’s experience in the legendary Chef Charlie Trotter’s kitchen in Chicago. Trotter was an American chef and restaurateur. His most well-known restaurant, Charlie Trotter’s, was open in Chicago from 1987 to 2012…
2021 California Wine Harvest
If there is a low yield harvest, grape prices tend to go up because of the lack of grapes. If the yield is up, grape prices tend to stay steady or go down. This all tends to affect the price of a bottle of wine. The crop was light in 2020 with only 3.4 million tons of wine grapes being crushed…
More About Fine Wines
Back on May 9, 2018, I authored an article on fine wines in my wine blog. As my wine team began to taste wines for my 530 Wine Bar wine list, the term “Fine Wine” came up a number of times. As we were tasting, if the three of us (Stan Minden, Tom Welsh, and I) did not all vote “yes” on a wine, it did not make the list…
Another Look at Petite Sirah
Back in 2019 I wrote about the Petite Sirah grape in my blog. I have been drinking a few glasses of it lately and had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. So, I decided to write about the grape again to remind everyone to try it, soon…