Author Archives | Randy Caparoso
Randy Caparoso is an award winning Denver based wine journalist, a career restaurant wine consultant and a winemaker/proprietor. He writes a daily Organic Wine Match of the Day as the Denver Wine Examiner, on www.examiner.com, and you can reach him directly at randycaparoso@earthlink.net or through his home page at www.culinarywineandfood.com.
Domaine Vigneau-Chevreau Vouvray and Artisanal Cheeses
Vouvray is like the girl with the Scarlett Johansson sweetness, Bette Davis wit, and knockdown Grace Kelly beauty that made all the boys in high school too dumbfounded to ever ask out (except for the dumb jocks, who’d never get a yes). Vouvray is a thinking man and woman’s white wine because it takes brains [...]
Continue reading...Pierre Morey Meursault and Coq Au Vin Blanc
March 16, 2009
For Pierre Morey – the former (and legendary) winemaker of Domaine Leflaive, and proprietor of his own Domaine Pierre Morey in Burgundy, France – farming biodynamically (his vineyards Biodyvin certified since 1997) is a matter of stewardship: turning over vineyards from one generation to another at the peak of health and productivity. Morey is particularly [...]
Continue reading...Domaine Tempier & Smoked Pulled Pork
March 6, 2009
Collette wrote of France’s Jurançon: when I was a young girl, I was introduced to a passionate Prince, domineering and two-timing like all great seducers… My lifelong affair has been with Domaine Tempier’s Bandol rouge, which began in the early 1980s, when I was first introduced to the French imports of Kermit Lynch. In the [...]
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March 31, 2009
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