Fickle Palate Archives: January 2008
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28 January 2008
Secrets from the Cellar
In a companion article on this website, you’ll find an article entitled, "I’ll Get the Good Stuff from the Cellar." It provides some suggestions for establishing your very own wine cellar with an assortment of wines likely to be both familiar and unfamiliar.
Don’t shun the unfamiliar. One of the fun things about having a collection [...]
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17 January 2008
Pleasure Comes in Pairs: Explore Coffee and Food Pairing
Coffee pairing, though perhaps it doesn’t inhabit the same status stratum as wine pairing, is nevertheless a palate-thrilling undertaking. Maybe this discrepancy in standing makes coffee pairing feel more within reach to some of us. In any case, deliberately pairing coffee varieties with various foods brings together tasting and articulation, exploration and creativity. Most of [...]
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14 January 2008
“I’ll Get the Good Stuff from the Cellar”
Haven’t you always wanted to say those words about a treasured collection of dusty wine bottles nestled snugly underground in a dank and chilly cave? I have!
Unfortunately, I don’t have a dank and chilly underground cave to convert into a state of the art wine cellar for all those dusty bottles so I’ve had to [...]
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10 January 2008
An Afternoon of Napa Valley Wine Tasting
We decided to spend our honeymoon in northern California. My family has lived in the Bay Area for generations, but I was moving to Atlanta with my new husband, and we wanted to spend our first weeks as husband and wife enjoying some of what the region is known for.
And who can think [...]
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2 January 2008
For 2008, I Resolve to Drink More Wine!
I’m not so good with New Year’s resolutions. I’ve made them before but I usually break them as fast as I make them. That just adds a silly degree of guilt to the trepidations I’m already feeling about facing another entire year trying to change my life from ho-hum to dazzling.
The typical resolution isn’t much [...]