"For most vegetable dishes that are not heavily laden with spices, you want wine that is not challenging, " says Sriram Aylur, chef and proprietor at London's Michelin-starred Indian restaurant Quilon, pointing to German Riesling.
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This might get a bit arts and craftsy but it lets you choose exactly the wine you want to give (of course, the recipient might not know what it was).
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It all started so innocently with one small gift of homemade cookies that your neighbors reciprocated with a very fancy bottle of wine, which made you want to buy something even nicer the next year to thank them for that bottle of wine, which they returned with a gift certificate for a swanky restaurant in town.
May the New Year bring you every wine that you want and more.
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Should you perchance have an herb-roasted bird on your menu this Thanksgiving you might want to consider a wine with some herbal essence for the meal.
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You hold it over your glass, or if you want to get fancy, a decanter, you pour wine in the top straight from the bottle and aerated wine comes out the bottom.
And if you want some suggestions for what to eat with your wine, Forbes wine blogger Jeff Lefevere is the man to go to.
Whether you want to cook like an Italian, buff up on wine or fight like a gladiator, there is a school ready to teach you how.
You may want to pair those edibles with a nice bottle of wine--but make sure doing so doesn't violate company policy.
We get it: Wine is a big profit center for restaurants and you want us to order more and more.
Because once the dinner party gets rolling, and all those Gen-X wives settle onto the couch with their white wine, your buddies are going to want to join you in the kitchen, hogging all the fun.
The app, which started as a Kickstarter campaign in 2011, is great if you want to make a last minute run to the store for string cheese and wine provisions.
If all you want to do is scan, by all means, go ahead rating a wine is actually optional.
But if you want to shake up that early summer tradition, skip the brewskie and uncork a bottle of wine instead.
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