Mostly wine related, perhaps a review of one or more wines, or a wine tasting. Sometimes other beverages as well – spirits, or even non-alcohol drinks, if you can believe that!
Oh let’s see, once again everyone out there is putting forth their end of year wrap-ups and I feel near obligated to participate. Actually, it’s kind of fun to look back and see what’s new, changed, etc. and look forward to a new year. Past editions of this were 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2007. In… Read More A Year After the Mayan Apocalypse
Continuing with our little vacation remix cycle, this last weekend we hit the north of Peru with Trujillo and Calamarca taking center stage. There was less new here, given that I’ve been to that part of Peru several times now, and of course, Henry grew up there, so it’s ingrained into his soul. But it… Read More Trujillo, Remastered
I wasn’t back 24 hours before I was in the kitchen, cooking up a reinterpreted dinner of all the various things that we encountered while in Iquitos, Peru last month. In fact, that’s going to be the sort of theme of the next few weeks – a redux from Iquitos, Trujillo and Calamarca, Lima, and… Read More Iquitos, Remixed
Just a few wines that have fallen into my lap, so to speak, from distributors here, including a round-up of a dozen from one winery. García Riccardi García Riccardi Rose Ambar 2005 – One of the most unusual rosés I’ve ever tried, starting simply with the blend – Moscatel rosada, Moscatel asti, Pinot noir, Cabernet… Read More Wines of the Fall
On to the wedding day itself – pretty much a, if I may use the term, straightforward wedding, with a few twists. Two gay men both working in the political world, one republican, one democrat, one traditional chinese family, one traditional jewish family, you know, all the usual things to be considered. Hey, I didn’t… Read More The Wedding Banquet
Out of the blue during the last couple of weeks I’ve been asked about specifically Argentine liquors, liqueurs, spirits, etc. Something outside the wine world. It’s a topic that I’ve thought about in the past and was always planning to write something up on, but just never got around to it. So, now I am.… Read More Apertivo Digestivo
It’s an ever changing thing to answer the question, “What’s your favorite… X?” It’s also probably the most common question I get asked both by e-mail and in person by guests at Casa S. Recently, luxury travel magazine The Address asked me the same and gave me a whole bunch of pages to answer the… Read More My Top in BA. For the Moment.
Not that the Mayans ever predicted the end of the world this last month, having only laid out the end of one in a series of “long cycles” of the calendar (amazing what people will reinterpret for their apocalyptic fantasies), but given that I’m writing this and you’re reading it, the long awaited and much… Read More 2012 Gone, Without an Apocalypse