by Susanna Gaertner | Jun 29, 2016 | Wine & Spirits, Wine & Spirits blog
Among the offerings at a recent Rhone tasting in SF, I found several bottles to share with readers, and I want to start with a red that’s geared to summer and that can be sipped alone or put beside food. This marvel of versatility and panache is the 2013 Seven...
by Lisa Richardson | Jun 11, 2016 | Food, Food blog
For over a decade, we’ve had the pleasure of dining at Sassi (in Scottsdale, Arizona) alone and with friends and family, celebrating an event or simply the day. The mostly southern Italian-inspired menu with many imported products and housemade pastas tastes sublime...
by Lucy Gordan | Jun 3, 2016 | Wine & Spirits, Wine & Spirits blog
On a family vacation in c. 1990 to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s 5,000-acre plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia, I visited his house, his vegetable garden and his vineyards, the first ones in the United States, although his repeated attempts to plant various...