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Snooth, the world’s largest wine site, has launched its Food & Wine pairings application for My Yahoo!, the most popular personalized start page with more than 40 million worldwide monthly visitors.
My Yahoo! users are now able to peruse thousands of recipes from leading publications such as Food & Wine, Cooking Light, Real Simple and Health, among […]

Wine & Spirits Magazine  will host its First Annual New York Event, Top of the List , Tuesday, June 2nd.  Over 100 wineries will pour the top wines served in America’s best restaurants, paired with specialties from some of NYC’s most esteemed chefs.
The tasting happens at City Winery-the new live music space that holds the […]

While Northern and Central Italian wine regions are quite well known internationally, think Tuscany and Piedmont, Southern Italy’s wine regions are becoming more popular as these wines find their way onto the world market. Among them, the region of Puglia, which serves as the “heel” of Italy’s boot, has had a renaissance in its wine production. Historically, Pliny […]

Feast on this! Finally a Chianti I like that fits my artist picks (wines under $10) - Saggio Chianti. Times have changed. The former DOC classification was all about quantity but now it’s all about quality with the Chianti Classico DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) - the Italian wine classification for wines with […]

Imbibe is a UK bi-monthly targeting the on-trade wine and drinks market. It is not really the type of magazine we cover over on Paper Palate but I thought there are a couple of interesting wine articles that deserved a wider audience.Over on The Spirit World I’ve covered the magazines Vodka Tasting but it was […]

That great little book by Brian St Pierre, The Wine Lover Cooks Italian, has several suggestions for matching Sangiovese with food.
His Tips to Successful Matches with Chianti suggests

The Tuscan specialty crostini - thin slices of toasted bread rubbed with olive oil and spread with chicken liver is a perfect match, as is calves’ liver and […]

After a full meal of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and everything else that makes up our holiday table traditions, we don’t really need to eat another bite. But, sooner or later, most of us crave something sweet to end our meal. This year, instead of being seduced by the siren call of those perennial favorites […]

What would you drink with the classic Thanksgiving Day turkey? Myself and two of my colleagues at About.com asked ourselves just that question and came up with a few answers.
For cocktails I’m inclined to suggest the perfectly titled drink for the occasion, the Thanksgiving Cocktail. The combination of dry, sweet and sour is perfect alongside […]

I love beer that’s so thick you can chew it. I adore heavy stouts and I.P.A.s make my bottom all tingly, but there’s a special place in my being that’s purely reserved for barleywine. Just the fact that the IBUs can get well over 100 in this wonderful style of beer is enough to intrigue…well, […]

When I picked up a bottle of Damrak gin, I realized that ordinary bitters wouldn’t quite cut it. The body of the gin is far too malty for anything I had, so I made my own. Being that I have hoppy beer, I used that as the bittering agent.
 
This beauty is what followed:
 
Natural Harmonic
2 oz […]