http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room Ray Isle's Wine Blog en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:01:01 -0500 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:57:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/3/A-Wealth-of-Champagne-Information I think the advent of September, and, thankfully, a breath or two of cool breeze in NYC, has gotten me thinking about Champagne. (Of course, simply waking up in the morning can make me think about Champagne.) In any case, lately when I think about Ch... News Champagne Sparkling Wine Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:57:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/3/A-Wealth-of-Champagne-Information Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/1/Today-Show-End-of-Summer-Drinks I was on the Today show this morning (check out the clip here), recommending a few summer's-almost-over-don't-miss-them beers and wines to Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. It was, as usual, a slightly crazy affair, but a lot of fun.Beer-wise... Dessert Wine Beer Red Wine White Wine Sparkling Wine Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:05:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/9/1/Today-Show-End-of-Summer-Drinks Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/13/Spinach-Pie--Sparkling-Rosé I am a spinach-pie fanatic. Doesn't matter if it's the Greek phyllo variety or the folded-dough Middle Eastern sort; there is no food more perfect in my mind. And just recently, I had a spinach-pie-and-wine pairing epiphany that makes the ult... Rose Pairings Sparkling Wine Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:51:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/13/Spinach-Pie--Sparkling-Rosé Megan Krigbaum http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/7/Today-Show-Made-in-America-Wines I had a good time appearing on Today this morning, recommending wines for their "Made in America" Friday whip segment. (On the whip they run through four or so variations on a topic in a speedy way.) In this case "made in America"... News Champagne Rose Wines Under $20 Red Wine White Wine Sparkling Wine Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:44:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/8/7/Today-Show-Made-in-America-Wines Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/5/13/Pizza-Wine-Perfection Every spring, I wait for that transcendent moment when everything comes together and the season hits its most refreshing, jubilant, birds a-chirping note and there's no looking back to the bleak days of winter. That moment finally arrived last ni... Red Wine Wines Under $20 Sparkling Wine Wed, 13 May 2009 16:33:33 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2009/5/13/Pizza-Wine-Perfection Megan Krigbaum http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/12/24/Last-Minute-SuperDuper-Wine-Gifts I know that I definitely haven't finished my shopping, so I'm figuring I must have company out there in the rest of the world, too. Here are some terrific wines and other items (books, chocolates, etc.) that caught my eye recently:I tasted a ... White Wine Holidays Red Wine Wines Above $40 Wines $20 to $40 Sparkling Wine Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:17:51 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/12/24/Last-Minute-SuperDuper-Wine-Gifts Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/11/24/Turkey-Day-Wines I was on CBS's The Early Show this past Saturday, with some affordable wine recommendations for Thanksgiving (and every other upcoming holiday), and I keep receiving emails from friends wondering about wines that go with turkey, so evidently not ... [More] White Wine Holidays Red Wine Wines Under $20 Wines $20 to $40 Sparkling Wine Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:32:34 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/11/24/Turkey-Day-Wines Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/8/29/Today-Show-Labor-Day-Cocktails I was on Today this morning, mixing up some Labor Day cocktails with Hoda Kotbe and Kathie Lee Gifford. It was, as is usual for the fourth hour of the show, a rather, um, freewheeling segment. We didn't exactly make it through both drinks, though... Spirits White Wine Sparkling Wine Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:54:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/8/29/Today-Show-Labor-Day-Cocktails Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/7/8/Good-Times-for-Italian-Wine-Lovers-Scarpetta-Bar-Milano-DellAnima Sometimes it's easy to lose sight of how radically wine lists in restaurants have changed over the past, oh, fifteen years or so. I've been on a sort of Italian-resto-spree lately, and I'm coming out of it thinking that I'm either dre... White Wine Red Wine Chefs Restaurants Sparkling Wine Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:51:08 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/7/8/Good-Times-for-Italian-Wine-Lovers-Scarpetta-Bar-Milano-DellAnima Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/1/10/Dont-Mess-with-those-Belgians The weird wine highlight of this morning has to be this just-released video of Belgian customs officials using some sort of giant metal mechanical claw to destroy 3,200 bottles of André sparkling wine—or, as wine-giant Gallo prefers to lab... News Sparkling Wine Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/1/10/Dont-Mess-with-those-Belgians Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/1/2/Champagne--Barbecue It's unlikely that many people reading this will end up at Kasper's Meat Market in Weimar, Texas anytime soon, which is a shame, because the bbq brisket they serve up each weekend is mighty good stuff (their dry sausages are great, too, and y... Champagne Holidays Wines Above $40 Pairings Sparkling Wine Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:09:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2008/1/2/Champagne--Barbecue Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/6/5/More-Pairing-Strangeness A week or so ago I went to one of the odder lunches I've been to in a while, for the launch of the 1999 Dom Perignon. It was up in a strange suite in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, furnished in a way that could best be described as "site of ki... Wines Above $40 Pairings Sparkling Wine Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:26:59 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/6/5/More-Pairing-Strangeness Ray Isle http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/4/30/Not-Your-Grandmothers-Lambrusco At least if your grandmother drank Lambrusco—mine, of course, was a whiskey-drinking hell-raiser who drove a Camaro late into her seventies, and wouldn't have touched a purple fizzy wine even if you'd paid her fifty bucks.Anyway, enough... Red Wine Wines Under $20 Sparkling Wine Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:49:51 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/tasting-room/2007/4/30/Not-Your-Grandmothers-Lambrusco Ray Isle