Share As soon as temperatures warm in France, Italy and Spain, many restaurants and bars, particularly in shoreline regions, begin offering certain red wines with a little chill.  In general, most American wine drinkers shudder at the irreverent act of refrigerating reds. It’s simply incorrect. White wines are served cold, and reds are supposed to [...]

Share What do you get when you combine a passion for travel with a love of history and a talent for writing? You get Linda’s wonderful blog The Distracted Wanderer! Thanks Linda for your recent visit to the ‘Gris’….you sure did your research and your beautiful article makes us proud.

ShareBeginning just outside Strasbourg and extending southward for almost 70 miles through the wooded slopes and hills of the Vosges Mountains near France’s eastern border with Germany and Switzerland, here lies the ancient and impressive Alsace wine region. The Vosges Mountains tend to keep the region dry and protected from the cold Atlantic weather. Unlike [...]

ShareFor the past couple of years, there has been a great deal of media touting the 2008 vintage of Pinot Noir in Oregon’s Willamette Valley… and rightfully so.  It is a truly exceptional vintage. I had the pleasure of visiting a host of Willamette Valley wineries last year, precisely during their release of the 2008’s. [...]

ShareIf you are looking for the best of both worlds – a wine that has the dynamic characteristics of the most celebrated grape in the world, Cabernet Sauvignon, along with the more unique flavor and structural components of other red varieties – than you should focus your attention on the fascinating genre of Cabernet Blends. [...]

ShareAMC’s hit show, mentioned the Griswold Inn as a 1965 weekend getaway destination this past Sunday, July 25th. Betty, one of the show’s leading characters, and her new husband, Henry Francis headed for the Griswold Inn in Essex Connecticut. To see more of the article from The Examiner, click here