Wines for Every Summer Occasion
Whether you're by the pool or at the campground, these wines are great for summer sipping.
Tag: chardonnay
Sipping Sonoma Wine in Springtime
So many social gatherings in May and June, so many wines to choose from!
Five Spring White Wines to Enjoy in Sonoma County
This time of year is a conundrum. We have one muddy shoe in the rainy season, while the other is tap dancing under sun-kissed skies. We don’t dare leave our jackets in the hall closet … or do we? Our palates are just as confused but, in the end, can’t resist the urge to chase […]
Wine Pairings for Everything from Oysters to Valentine’s Day
From oysters to Valentines, we've found some great Sonoma County wines that pair perfectly with your winter plans.
New Year’s Eve: Serve This, Get Lucky
If you've already got Champagne and caviar lying about, then by all means, use it, and with neither apology nor reservation. But here is my contribution: Whatever you do, make sure you serve something that will get you lucky. As it happens - to nobody's surprise, at least if they're regular readers - we in the Proximal Kitchen are nothing if not opinionated, and we love most of all to pontificate about which foods and wines are most likely to earn you flirty looks and even messier sheets, and we've got just the ticket:
Sunny Eggs, Crispy Polenta & Creamy Mushrooms
Sunny Eggs with Crispy Polenta and a Creamy Mushroom Sauce Recipe
My Big, Fat, Alexander Valley Chardonnay (Part 3 of 3)
For a brief and ill-advised moment, I considered describing the luscious and outrageously good Chardonnays being crafted over in the Alexander Valley as phat rather than fat, mainly because pretty hot and tasty summarily describes the better ones, but also because I'm hopelessly ignorant when it comes to the etymology and demographic appropriateness of modern slang.
AV Chardonnay Calls BS on ABC (Part 2 of 3)
I may live in the Russian River Valley – indisputably, home court to any number of world-class Chardonnay winemakers – but I’m here to tell you that, if well-made, sexpot Chards are your thing, then you need to get your Chard-guzzling booty over to the Alexander Valley, and stat. You won’t find nearly the selection […]
AV Chardonnay Calls BS on ABC (Part 1 of 3)
Google "ABC Anything But Chardonnay" and you'll get something on the order of 19,000 hits in the first few tenths of a second. The oldest reference I could be bothered to find dates to 1995 in a column by Frank Prial for the NY Times, but as recently as 2008, someone actually took the time to write a book with the same dated and misguided tag line, so