Better the teetotaller be, than the one who nurses a solitary glass of wine the whole evening only to be lumped in with "the drinkers" when the night's damage is tallied up across a bottle-strewn table.
The French, though they age every other thing they eat -- game, cheese, wine, their whole country a wonderland of noble rot -- do not, inexplicably, age their beef much: only three to five days, as opposed to the three to five weeks favored by Americans.
"The British and the French used to hide in this bay, before they attacked Mahon," the proprietor of Bar Sa Mesquida said to us, as we ordered a bottle of crisp, white Galician wine, a whole dorade, grilled and dressed with lemon and salt, and a tray of fried ortigas de mar, a sort of anemone with a taste like a burst of the sea itself and eaten only in early summer.
An observant Jew must be a part of the wine's whole process from start to finish.
Cook a couple swordfish steaks in garlic and fennel for a few minutes on each side, then add a little white wine and whole cherry tomatoes and let the dish simmer away until the steaks are done.
Cook a couple of swordfish steaks in garlic and fennel for a few minutes on each side, then add a little white wine and whole cherry tomatoes and let the dish simmer away until the steaks are done.
Spice- and salt-cured one night, then simmered the next in soy, sugar and Japanese and Chinese cooking wines, the whole belly is finally sliced and seared in a wok with whole dried chilies and whole garlic cloves.
The wine-tasting company ThirtyFifty brings the whole wine-tasting business into your home.
And now the whole wine world is caught up in a swirling controversy: are these great modern wines made by people willing to break the mold, or are they overhyped trophies for the moneyed collector?
— elite audience, the whole wine thing might make sense.
