G.D. VAJRA Barbera d’Alba

“Wine improves with age. I improve with wine.” As I write some of these blogs I sometimes get a little caught up in the emotion. For a variety of reasons. Well, this is one of those columns. My son and his wife( my daughter) gave me this bottle as a Christmas present. Now, he knows

Cour Des Templiers Margaux

“Good wine is a good familiar creature, if used well.” from Othello Margaux is a wine growing commune located in Haut-Medoc in the Bordeaux Region of France, which in turn is centered in the village of Margaux. This area contains several other small villages and is located on the bank of the Gironde, an estuary

GIAMBOTTA

(Republished from an earlier date at the suggestion of a friend. And I was so proud of myself for figuring out how to do it too!!! Enjoy this.) “A tavola non si invecchia” (At the table, you don’t get old) Italian cooking is a lot of things: fragrant, flavorful, satisfying and on and on. In

SAN LORENZO MONTEPULCIANO D’ABRUZZO

“The wine cup is the little silver well, where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell,” Shakespeare Let me begin by saying this, repeating this actually…when you see the words “Montepulciano D’Abruzzo” on the bottle, the wine inside that bottle is of a superior quality. As I have told my sons and many others, if

EASY ROAST PORK STUFFED WITH GARLIC

This is a great recipe, delicious and so easy to prepare. The “stuffing” takes a few minutes but seeps into the meat giving it a succulent flavor and keeping it juicy as everything melds into a taste sensation. Pork Loin-about 3-4 pounds4 cloves pressed garlic¼ cup plain bread crumbsSalt to tasteDash each of cumin and