Many sommeliers find a niche of wines they love and make their restaurant a standout location for those wines. Pascaline Lepeltier has done this with chenin blanc at Rouge Tomate, Thomas Pastusza...
White truffles are a rare delicacy: The short season for the mushrooms, the stratospheric prices ($2,000 a pound is not uncommon) and the intense aromas and flavors make this mostly something for...
https://www.drvino.com/2014/12/08/largest-white-truffle-auction/
President Obama just wrapped up a four-country swing through Asia. There was lots of diplomatic talk, to be sure, but inquiring food minds want to know what of the local cuisines Obama got to sam...
https://www.drvino.com/2014/05/01/filippino-food-wine-obama/
Anchovy gelato and white wine? Wait, someone makes anchovy gelato?? The Times has a story about a handful of “all-natural” gelato shops in Rome that are bucking convention and trying to boost...
https://www.drvino.com/2013/12/26/gelato-wine-pairing-anchovy/
We just finished up another session of my wine class at NYU this week. As part of an assignment, one student decided to present an “impossible” food to pair with wine to a wine shop. She made...
One of the popular features on this site is the challenge of the “impossible food-wine pairing.” But while we often focus on the virtues of sparkling wine with zany foods, there’s one that ...
Anchovies are polarizing: a recent poll found them to be among the three foods the are most disliked by Brits (along with oysters and liver). But then there are people like Jeremy Seysses of Doma...
Ferran Adria was in town last night to promote the auction of wines from the El Bulli cellar later today. In a talk, the renowned innovator and leading protagonist of molecular gastronomy laid ou...
https://www.drvino.com/2013/04/26/ferran-adria-talks-el-bulli-auction-somms-talk-el-bulli-wine/
Howard Goldberg tweets: “I wonder what wines @drvino, the Combo King, would recommend for Claes Oldenburg’s fake food on display at MoMA.” Aha! Good question. Which wine to pair with fake f...
https://www.drvino.com/2013/04/22/fake-food-moma-impossible-pairing/
The world of processed meats has been on a wild ride lately: the starting bell rang in mid-January when burgers in the UK labeled as beef were found to contain horse meat. This prompted more insp...
https://www.drvino.com/2013/02/26/ikea-meatballs-impossible-food-wine-pairing/
Dwight Garner, the astute book reviewer for the NYT (be sure to check out his hilarious review of The 4-hour Body from last year), ventures into the food section this week with what he calls a �...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/10/23/peanut-butter-pickle-impossible-food-wine-pairing/
Lobster roll plate at Sesuit Harbor Cafe in Dennis, MA. What’s the best lobster roll on Cape Cod? It’s hard to say and many local spots have their partisans. I’ve had the good fortune to pe...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/08/17/best-lobster-roll-cape-cod/
Last night, we dodged rain clouds and feasted on Wellfeet oysters, lobster rolls, and grilled striped bass. Cape Cod’s finest. And washed it all down with a bottle of Camille Savès, Carte Bl...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/08/12/champagne-pairing-oysters-fries/
Behold the douche burger, a “a f—ing burger filled and topped with rich people s–-t.” The $666 burger has gotten a lot of media attention but for the description, we’ll cut ri...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/07/19/douche-burger-wine-pairing/
Okay, we just did an “impossible” challenge but it reeked of pipi and April foolery. So here’s something more useful: five veggie burger recipes via the Times, where the article was as high...
https://www.drvino.com/2012/04/02/veggie-burgers-wine-pairing/