A wine blog by Susannah Gold
This month #WinePW travels to Moldova. Where is Moldova you might ask when reading one of these posts. It is in Eastern Europe, in the South East specifically and borders Ukraine and Romania. This Black Sea basin is said to be the natural home of the grape vine. It's climate is moderately continental thanks to... Continue Reading →
Thanks to a blogging group I am part of, I was lucky enough to receive a group of samples from wineries that are part of the Fingerlake Wine Alliance. I wrote about one of the wineries last week and today is my second installment. The Fingerlakes as an area is just gorgeous and I... Continue Reading →
This month's #WinePW blogging group went to the Finger Lakes. Thanks to Linda Whipple who hosts this month's chat, many of us received a host of wonderful samples to try. Click here to read Linda's preview post on the region. I was lucky enough to visit the Finger Lakes in 2018 when I attended the... Continue Reading →
When Jeff of Food Wine Click! mentioned that we had an opportunity to receive samples from Yarden Wines for an additional #WinePW weekend, I jumped at the chance to receive samples. It seemed like an amazing way to spend Memorial Day Weekend. He wrote his preview post last week which you can find here I... Continue Reading →
Thanks to this month's focus on Orange wines or skin contact wines by the #WinePW group, I am focusing on a winery from Slovenia. Before I delve into Movia and my homemade Sushi extravaganza, let's look at our host Martin Redmond blog Enofylz invitation post on Orange wines which you can find here. Orange wines are... Continue Reading →
For this month’s Wine Pairing Weekend, #WinePW, Nicole at Somm’s Table invited us to write about wines from the ancient world.Thinking about what I wanted to add to the discussion, Falernian came to mind. It is the most famous wine that was drunk in Ancient Rome and truly became a cult wine. Vinum Falernum... Continue Reading →
This month's #WinePW group traveled to an area of France where Vin de Savoie are produced. Our host, Jill Barth wrote this invitation post with some information on the area. Here interview with author Wink Lorch on the region can be found here. The area is in Eastern France and borders Switzerland. I've been to... Continue Reading →
This month's #WinePW is about pet-nat wines or wines that are pétillant-naturel. Since I love sparkling wines of all kinds I was excited. What I didn't realize was how hard it would be to find a Blanquette de Limoux méthode ancestrale from Languedoc. I did find one made in the traditional method. Blanquette di Limoux... Continue Reading →
The Wine Pairing Weekend group heads to Texas wine country this weekend. Host Michelle Williams of Rockin’ Red Blog, a resident of Texas and fan of Texas wines, provided a wonderful primer on the subject in her invitation post. While I did not go to Texas wine country, I have had the pleasure of tasting... Continue Reading →
