Over the past several years I have been involved in planning a large number of dinner parties for our Wine Club and other special events we do at the LEX 530 Event Center. In today’s blog article I want to share with you some of the things I have learned in planning these parties…
The Nebbiolo (neeby-oh-low) grape is one of Italy’s top red grapes. It is grown in the Piedmont and Lombardy regions of Italy. In fact, it does truly define the Piedmont region’s status as one having world-class quality wines. In particular because that is where the powerful reds of Barolo and Barbaresco are produced…
From our family to yours, we hope you enjoy a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving holiday! May the food and wine be delicious! Cheers!
Everyone is so excited about getting the 530 Wine Bar to opening day, including our many new potential patrons. Unfortunately, we can’t give you the opening date just yet…but we are getting much closer. This week allow me to introduce you to one of the guys who is working…
Over the past weeks, I have been devoting a great deal of time to getting our 530 Wine Bar finished and ready to open. We are making great progress. The team is working very hard getting important components of the wine bar completed…
LEX 530 has a new executive chef and we are so excited for you to meet him! You can at our special Autumn Wine Dinner, introducing Executive Chef Jeremy Perkins, to be held on Friday, November 19, 2021, at LEX 530. Chef Jeremy will prepare a delicious five-course dinner to be paired with Stan Minden’s and Carl Tiedemann’s wine selections…
By Tom Welsh: Here is the third, and for now, final installment of my blogs on my week in France last month. The three days in Bordeaux went too fast, but there were still four days in France ahead. Getting to Burgundy from Bordeaux by train “obliged” me to pass through Paris, so I spent a day there to rest up between wine tasting and touring…
By Tom Welsh: The day following the big tasting event, I crossed both the Garonne and Dordogne rivers to tour the “right bank” area of Bordeaux. You have probably heard reference to the left and right “banks” of Bordeaux. The “left bank” refers to land on the western side…
Editor’s Note: While Carl is busy trying to get the wine bar up and running, we’ve asked Tom Welsh, the new manager of the 530 Wine Bar, to fill in for this week’s blog. I’m pleased to be back contributing a blog entry to TiedemannOnWines.com. As with my first opportunity to do so, I’m sharing some of the wine-related experiences I had on a recent trip to France. The trip was planned around an annual tasting event in Bordeaux of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux, an organization…
Over the years I have become a fan of Semillon wines. Some folks have never heard of the wine, let alone tasted it. It is the third most grown wine in France. In France, Semillon is an important blending grape. In Bordeaux, the Semillon grape…
Emilie and I are very excited to announce that the 530 Wine Bar is coming along very well and is only weeks away from opening. We don’t know the exact date, as there are a number of things to be delivered…
If you are going to be a wine drinker, you need to enjoy it. This should be pretty simple to do…well, maybe. It goes a little beyond open, pour, sip and enjoy. Wine tasting has a few critical steps which we are going to discuss here. Mastering these steps helps you understand what’s in your glass and helps you enjoy your wine more…
As I was looking through my weekly wine reading articles, I came across several items I want to report to you on. The 2020 harvest was damaged by devastating fires and many power outages which interrupted irrigation and the harvest in general. The prediction for the 2021 harvest is…
As I have gotten older, I have been forced to pay much closer attention to my health. I do this by watching what I eat and drink, and by exercising. For years I have heard and read that moderate wine consumption is good for your health. Let’s take a look at this theory today…
In last week’s blog we discussed dessert wines and reviewed an article written by Tom Welsh on the topic. This week we are “Flashing Back” to my July 8, 2020, blog on fortified wines. These wines are heavy duty dessert wines with alcohol levels from 15 percent to 20 percent. Let’s…
