Sauvignon Blanc

Glendale, AZ (OPENPRESS) August 7, 2010 -- Reed Renaudin of Napa Valley?s X Winery will pour three special vintages from his winery during Arrowhead Grill?s monthly wine dinner on August 10.

Renaudin, the founder of Amicus and X Winery in Napa Valley, will serve a trio of wines from his company?s recent production. They include a 2007 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, a 2008 Red X (comprised of Syrah, Tempranillo, Grenache and Zinfandel), a 2009 White X (a blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Albarino, Muscat Blanc and Chardonnay).

The four-course meal kicks off at 6:30 p.m. with the White X being served with a scalloped and carmelized onion tart served with blood orange butter sauce. The second course holds in store the Red X and a seared duck breast salad with butter lettuce, roasted sweet corn salsa and a warm, green honey vinaigrette.

The evening is capped off with a blackberry-braised short rib with parsley puree, asparagus tips and a blackberry demi-glaze sauce. The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon will accompany the third course, followed by an assortment of fresh fruit tarts for dessert.

X Winery's Reed Renaudin Visits Arrowhead Grill for August Wine Dinner - The Open Press (press release)

Everyone has a secret travel spot. A hidden beach, a tiny mom-and-pop restaurant, a charming town in the mountains. Often we don't want to tell anyone about our secret spot for fear of ruining its magic. But it's the job of a travel writer to uncover new places and tell the world about them, and often a place deserves to be discovered.

My secret travel spot is the tiny village of Prepotto, a place without a streetlight, a post office or even a shop to buy food in. Tucked along the Italy/Slovenia border about a half hour outside of Trieste, it's not even the only Prepotto in the region -- a town less than twenty miles north holds the same name. But while Prepotto is quiet and hidden, it does hold surprises. For starters, the town is home to three world-class wineries and a lovely agriturismo perfect for spending a tranquil night in the countryside.

The area, part of the region of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, is called Carso and known for its rich red soil and delicious wines. Here I met the Lupinc family, who started the area's first agriturismo in the 1970s. An operating farm and winery, Lupinc also has a guest house with four charming rooms. Built on the side of a hill, the views stretch over vineyards and valleys as far as Trieste and the Adriatic Sea. After a long day of wine drinking, we would retire to the balcony outside our room with a bottle of local wine and luxuriate under the stars. In the morning, we strolled over to the dining hall where the family made us a breakfast of local cheeses and homemade sausages and cured meats, while we sat under towering trees at large oak tables, their friendly dog and chirping birds keeping us company.

During the day, we explored the town's three wineries, each making terrific wine though in very different environs. Edi Kante's winery looks like the Old West, with piles of rock scattered about and a flock of chickens clucking behind a wire fence. But descend into the building and something much more unusual reveals itself. The winery is carved three stories down into limestone, a circular staircase leading us deeper into a cellar that could have been a James Bond supervillain's lair, adorned with winemaker and painter Kante's dazzling canvases. The best Friuli wines, which are predominantly full bodied whites, are elegant, well structured and pure expressions of the terroir, especially in the barren, rocky Carso. Edi Kante's wines are among the finest, from the international grapes such as Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay to the aromatic, indigenous Vitovska and Malvasia.

My Secret Travel Spot - Huffington Post (blog)

Eat, Pray, Love ] is a celebration for the world of the senses and emotions; the wine’s presence [at the events] this past Friday continues Mr. Mondavi’s legacy for celebrating food, wine and the arts as an integral part of gracious living,” said Robert Mondavi Winery winemaker Rich Arnold.

Walter Scheib on preparing vegan meals. Not one for half-hearted efforts, she studied under Scheib for six weeks prior to leaving Washington for Stanford University.) Guests were also served gluten-free rolls, and the wedding cake, from La Tulipe in Westchester, N.Y., was also gluten-free. Carnivores and fish lovers, however, were not neglected: The menu also included Atlantic char and short ribs. It was quite an affair for the small town of Rhinebeck, N.Y. and its Astor Court, where the wedding was held, but potentially disgruntled residents were treated to an olive branch of sorts from the Clinton family. This past Friday, many of them received a bottle of Clinton Vineyards Tribute Seyval Blanc along with a note, apologizing for the inconvenience brought upon the town and its residents by the wedding of the century.

We just hope she doesn't take the secret of Sir Walter Raleigh's lost English settlers to the grave with her. • Earlier this year, a contract worker on Roanoke Island in North Carolina was hired by the Virginia-based Dominion Power Company to spray herbicides on vines or shrubs that threatened the company’s power lines. So when the eager worker came across an enormous grapevine whose tendrils were creeping up one of Dominion’s poles, he dutifully sprayed the heck out of it. Unfortunately, the vine, known as the Mother Vine, is a historic treasure, believed by some to be nearly 500 years old. The vine was reportedly planted by Croatan Indians of the region who made a wine from the white Scuppernong grapes they cultivated on the island. Within days of its herbicide spraying, the vine’s leaves started turning brown and dying, sending experts from Virginia Tech and the North Carolina state department of agriculture scurrying to Roanoke Island in an all-out effort to save her. Jack Wilson, whose family goes back in the region for 11 generations, built his home on the land where the vine grows in 1957. At the time his family bought the property, the canopy of the massive vine, supported by posts and arbors, covered some 2 acres, but has since been trimmed back to just half an acre. Wilson alerted authorities as the dying leaves began to spread from the vine’s periphery toward its trunk. Experts recommended fertilizing and watering the vine in an effort to stimulate new growth on its undamaged portions, while cutting off the dying sections in an effort to prevent the spread of the poison. Hang in there old girl.

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Eat, Pray, Love Mondavi Fumé Blanc - Wine Spectator

Terroir wine bars he runs downtown is not unlike a colorful bartender’s stamp on his saloon. Both Terroirs are infused with Mr. Grieco’s particular spirit, which I discuss in the article .

While you mull that matter and ready your response, you might be entertained by some examples of the colorful musings with which Mr. Grieco fills his very thick, very digressive, very playful wine lists. The article presents a few examples, but space was limited. Here, from the Terroir three-ring-notebook wine lists, are some more of his greatest hits.

The recipe for Celery and Tofu Salad differs from the instructions in the video. Both versions work; here’s how the discrepancy happened.

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When Your Choice Is Riesling, Riesling or Riesling - New York Times (blog)

This grape variety is grown in many places and therefore has several personalities. Those made in New Zealand, for instance, have a grapefruit and grassy component. Those from France have mineral notes. You may find it interesting to try several of them together to determine which style fits your palate.

This Napa producer makes some of the best and most consistent sauvignon blancs. We like the ruby grapefruit flavors laced with lime and fennel.

A single-sourced sauvignon blanc, this supercharged wine has intense grapefruit aromas with delicate doses of apricot and nectarines and loads of grapefruit flavors. Nice mineral thread makes it an interesting wine.

Always a winner, the Dry Creek sauvignon blanc has lemon peel and grapefruit aromas followed by orange peel and pineapple flavors with a dose of mineral. Juicy and crisp.

Wine, Etc.: Sauvignon blancs for summertime sipping - Annapolis Capital