The High Plains Winegrowers Wine & Music Festival, organized by a new coalition of growers, will draw attention to the more than 75 varietals in the region, with mainstays including cabernet sauvignon, pinot noir and chardonnay paired with trendy foreign styles like montepulciano and tempranillo.
Fortified wines, put plain and simply, are wines to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy (which is made from grapes rather than grains), is added.
On Tilos, the pleasure is still in simple things like bread and honey, olives, plain yogurt, cheap wine.
From the port are shipped the various products of the Thessalian plain, including cereals, wine, cotton, chromite, cement, yarns, fresh fruit, tobacco, olives, and olive oil.
The fuss-free policy is reinforced by plain white plates and wine tumblers.
NO OENOPHILE needs reminding that grape varieties can make all the difference between divine wine and plain plonk.
The subject of "An Old Woman at Her Meal" eats bread and wine, a plain reference to the Eucharist.
A dish of astringent olives is brought to every table, but with our wine aperitif, plain bread — which wouldn't alter the taste of the wine — would have been preferable.
It is clear that Jean and Marie Drillon Bruno Cremerr and Charlotte Rampling) have made this drive many times; opened up the secluded, half-timbered country house; and shared a simple meal of plain spaghetti and table wine before going to bed.
Ditto for the plain, simon-pure white wine lemon sauce that perked up two dishes: a salmon-sea scallop special ($17.50) scattered with tomato cubes and capers, and chicken scarpariello ($14.50), sauteed boneless strips of fork-tender meat festooned with garlic and sprigs of rosemary.
