A Sweet Red: Charlemagne

Posted on October 29th, 2008 by CommonDialog

So in my post Watermelon Wine, I had mentioned that while I had been less than enthusied by the watermelon wine, I had not come away empty handed from Davenport Orchards & Winery on Sunday.  That’s because I found a new sweet red: Charlemagne.
I had to try more than one wine.  Far be it from […]

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Watermelon Wine

Posted on October 26th, 2008 by CommonDialog

Today, I stopped by Davenport Orchards & Winery today to pick up a few bottles of locally produced wine.
I owe a lot of Davenport.  It is the first winery tour I ever took and strangely enough, I think I still have a bottle of apple wine I purchased that day.  I can only imagine after […]

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Choosing a Wine with Which to Cook

Posted on September 26th, 2007 by CommonDialog

There is tremendous scholarship concerning what types of wine to pair with which foods.  It is pretty well established that one should pair white wines with lighter dishes and red wines with heavier meat based dishes blah blah blah.  (I find this last point particularly troublesome since I prefer whites and oftentimes find the tannic […]

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