A wine blog by Susannah Gold
As I wait for the opportunity to go back to Europe, I watch movies that remind me of the beauty of those places and remember vacations past. Yesterday my son gave me a treat and watched The Sound of Music with me. I've probably seen it 20 times but each time, something new strikes me.... Continue Reading →
It's New York Climate Week and I am participating in on a conversation about climate change and food. It's super interesting to hear how changing our diets needs to be a part of our fight against climate change. Having been a meat eater all my life, the idea of being vegetarian was anathema to me... Continue Reading →
I was speaking about this grape variety today so I thought I would repost this article from some years ago. This week's indigenous grape variety entry will be a short one because I could find very little information on this variety on the internet or in other sources. The variety, Cornarea Nero, hails from Piedmont... Continue Reading →
These past four or five days I can literally think of nothing else but climate change. That makes sense since it is Climate Week in New York. I've followed some of their webinars and the tone while fascinating is also terrifying about where we are now. Every story on the news, every wine discussion I... Continue Reading →
While many people know of my connection to Italy, the real truth is that France and all things French were my first love. I lived in Dijon during University, was a French language and literature major in college and to this day associate much of my childhood with trips to France (read Dad’s love of... Continue Reading →
What a year 2020 has been. Today is the first evening of the Jewish New Year 5781. I was going to write about the wine I drank tonight to celebrate the New Year but then I read about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing. I feel heartbroken and scared and sad. What a life she led and... Continue Reading →
Every so often I reach for something in my glass that's not wine. Usually that means an Italian digestif - Amaro, Mirto, Limoncello maybe even a beer and very rarely Scotch. But drinking Bourbon is really out of character. That is since I'm an adult. I believe as a teen Bourbon was the source of... Continue Reading →
Corsica is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily, Sardinia, and Cyprus. My own experience with Corsica are comprised of my one sailing trip there in 2001, a seminar at the Society of Wine Educators Conference on L'Ile de la Beauté and some wines in NYC through the years. I also saw an... Continue Reading →
Weeks ago, after having attended a Zoom conversation about Sherry held by Bodegas Lustau, I promptly ordered three bottles of Sherry. Osborne is one of the oldest Sherry house, started by Thomas Obsorne Mann in 1772. He began bottling his own sherry in 1804. Some years later Osborne joined forces with the owner of Duff... Continue Reading →
September is California Wine Month . It's also harvest and wildfire season. These three factors and that our Wine Pairing Weekend bloggers are looking at the harvest through the lens of climate change and other environmental factors with Gwendolyn of Wine Predator as our host have led to today's post. Gwendolyn's invitation for our event is here. Earlier... Continue Reading →
