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This penne pasta dish can be made with leftovers, like pot roast, left, chicken or turkey.

Zesty wine, the best thing for leftovers

August 18, 2019 at 12:52 p.m.

The best thing about leftovers is their added flavor, the way sitting around a day or two in the refrigerator augments whatever tastes were there to begin with. The worst...

Thanksgiving leftovers represent a mish-mosh of flavors, textures and various elements such as fat and salt, sweet and sour, all in one place.

Wines that elevate Thanksgiving leftovers

August 18, 2019 at 12:52 p.m.

Leftover food, especially home-cooked meals, will be much around these next two months. Some people I know cook more than they will need for however many people they're hosting for...

Filet mignon with a butter-rich mushroom sauce is a classic combination that calls out for a classic wine: a high-tannin red.

Filet mignon with rich sauce wants a big red wine

May 31, 2019 at 1:36 p.m.

Oh, yeah: steak, butter, cream. Who ya gonna call? Red wine. But not just any red wine; you need — your palate needs — something rich in tannin, an organic...

Cabernet franc can be harder to grow than its offspring, cabernet sauvignon. The sire wants a long, cool, even growing season.

A look at cabernet franc, the overshadowed grape

June 18, 2018 at 5:38 a.m.

One night, many hundreds of years ago, the grapevines cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc nuzzled up to each other, somewhere in the Bordeaux region of France, and made a baby....

During this time of year, when so many wines come up along so many foods, take your own counsel on what you like and dislike.

Puzzling through wine for Thanksgiving table

August 18, 2019 at 12:52 p.m.

My dad was a children's dentist, floss in hand for just shy of 50 years. He often would take me to his office on Saturdays, his down time, when he...

Consider all the elements of fat, sugar, acid, vegetable matter and protein assembled to make this scallop dish.

Wines for scallops can go lean or rich

June 28, 2019 at 11:20 p.m.

Though simply named, this is a fairly complex dish if you consider all the elements of fat, sugar, acid, vegetable matter and protein assembled to make it. A lean, precise...

Wine from Hermitage is nearly all syrah from grapes grown on terraced slopes high over the Rhone River below.

The prestige of the northern Rhone

June 17, 2018 at 4:49 a.m.

A two-part look at the Rhone Valley: Part two, the north. The Rhone is the second largest wine-producing region of France (after the Languedoc, its neighbor to the west). Eighty...

Sauteed pork chop sit on a bed of greens flavored with ginger, garlic and sesame seeds.

Strong, spicy flavors present wine challenge

June 18, 2018 at 7:18 a.m.

There are two ways, at least, to look at pairing wine with flavorful, even hot-spicy food. One way would be to be sure the wine itself is flavorful and aromatic...

Grenache is an important grape in the southern Rhone Valley of France, especially in the appellation of Chateauneuf-du-Pape.

Southern Rhone: A look at the best wine regions

June 18, 2018 at 7:25 a.m.

A two-part look at the Rhone Valley: This week, the south. Rhone wines, 80 percent of which are red, have long been known for their strength and color. Their dramatic...

Sausage and spinach cooked with Italian plum tomatoes create a hearty sauce to serve atop polenta.

Sangiovese wine and tomatoes: Born for each other

May 31, 2019 at 1:35 p.m.

Cooks forget how acidic tomatoes are and, consequently, how only certain wines successfully pair with them at table, notably wines that are also zingy with acidity. Many white wines fill...

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