But let's move on to a smooth, subtle purée of tomato-chick pea soup, with a wing of paper-thin air-dried Spanish ham on top for a zing of salty flavor and a splash of color; the melt-in-your-mouth lightly-browned codfish croquettes zapped with aoli; and the spicy chorizo slices with mushrooms in a vigorous cabernet wine sauce.
Veal chop, for example, is grilled and served on a bed of vegetables -- snow peas, cubed zucchini, shaved carrots, mushrooms and diced potatoes, as it turns out -- with a vigorous port-wine reduction.
As China began to expand its horizons, the trade in horses, silk, bamboo, rice and wine was vigorous and often used in diplomacy to guarantee peace between empires and cities.
That may include bringing you glasses of different wines over the course of the meal, each unusual and delicious in its own way, while engaging in vigorous discussion of the wine business, organic foods and the history of Red Hook's waterfront.
Vines planted in flint tend to produce the most vigorous and longest lasting wines.
Some people believe a vigorous, quick pour better aerates the wine, some believe this can shock the wine and prefer a slower, more gentle pour.
Rather than a brainiac grey-beard, we should think of him as his contemporaries knew him: a bustling, energetic, wine-swilling, man-loving, vigorous, pug-nosed, sword-bearing war-veteran: a citizen of the world, a man of the streets.
Not only are small volumes economic, but also they facilitate holding the wine at a steep angle and vigorous swirling.
Vigorous but never gauche, this is a generous red wine of great vivacity.
In a typical experiment [ 14], 0.01 mol/L of chloroauric acid (5 mL) and 1% sodium citrate (10 mL) were added to 50 mL of an aqueous solution that had been heated and stirred until reaching the boiling point; heating and vigorous stirring were maintained until the solution reached a wine red color.
