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☆ For Thanksgiving, 20 Wines Under $20
  + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Eric Asimov | More About Eric Asimov | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
If you’re having a big party, don’t worry about matching wines to dishes. Instead, the goal is to select versatile, energizing wines, the sort that won’t weigh you down but will provide refreshment and pleasure with anything you serve. In practical terms, that means wines with relatively low alcohol content, 14 percent maximum but better around 12 or 13 percent. That often makes the difference between bottles that can snap you to attention and a flat, fatiguing wine. The aim is refreshment and pleasure more than complexity and contemplation, though if you can find it all in one inexpensive bottle you’ve got a treasure.
☆ What if Wine and Cider Had a Baby?
  + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Eric Asimov | More About Eric Asimov | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Wine is made by fermenting grapes or other fruit, although apple and pear wines are distinctive enough to have earned their own categories, cider and perry. But a growing number of producers are blurring the styles, blending grape wines and ciders or fermenting grapes and other fruit together, with remarkable delicious results. Some bottles are collaborations between wine and cider specialists, but most who are making these blends are natural winemakers, who tend to be more experimental and adventurous and less bound by industry and market conventions. Andy Brennan, of the superb Aaron Burr Cidery in Wurtsboro, N.Y., makes a wonderfully refreshing blend he calls Appinette by fermenting together farmed apples and traminette, a hybrid wine grape. Scar of the Sea, an excellent wine producer in San Luis Obispo, Calif., blends a different grape with Newtown Pippin apples each year — gamay in 2021 and palomino in ’22.
Persons: Andy Brennan, Aaron Burr Cidery, Newtown Pippin, gamay, palomino Organizations: Calif, Newtown Locations: Wurtsboro, San Luis Obispo, ’
☆ Where to Drink Wine in the Hudson Valley
  + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Eric Asimov | More About Eric Asimov | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
In the last 15 years or so, a growing number of people have come to see the Hudson Valley as more than a beautiful place to visit. A host of new cafes, coffee shops, boutiques and restaurants cater to this rising population tide. Farms and farm stands provide great local ingredients, as do local cheese producers and bakers. It’s become a great place to eat and to drink good wine. On a recent trip to the Hudson Valley, I made my base near the small city of Hudson, N.Y., which has the greatest concentration of destinations in the area, though I explored places within a 30-minute drive.
Persons: It’s Locations: Hudson, N.Y
☆ 20 Wines Under $20: Bottles for All Seasons
  + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Eric Asimov | More About Eric Asimov | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
I don’t believe in drinking seasonally. I believe in eating seasonally, and that largely dictates which wines I drink. With fresh vegetables in hot weather, and with plenty of seafood, I tend to pick lighter wines, not always white but mostly. It’s not so much a matter of color but of weight, which encompasses the full spectrum of wines. But weight does often correlate with color, and that’s where the specious shorthand, “reds in winter, whites and rosés in summer,” may have originated.
Persons: It’s
☆ Decoding the Complicated Color Wheel of Wines
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Eric Asimov | More About Eric Asimov | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Dark RedsNot a particularly helpful designation as color in red wines can mean little. The assumption is that the darker the color the denser and more tannic the wine, but it’s not true. One exception with color: Young reds will be brighter while well-aged wines will seem duller and paler around the edges. It’s both the oldest method and newly fashionable, and produces somewhat simple wines that can be fresh and delicious. Last is the tank method, used for inexpensive sparkling wines produced in quantity, like Prosecco.
Organizations: Reds Locations: Provence, Champagne
☆ Where to Drink Wine in Madrid
  + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Eric Asimov | More About Eric Asimov | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To many tourists, Madrid is kind of an afterthought, Spain’s second city after Barcelona, which, in their minds, abounds with youthful energy, quirky architecture, a thriving arts scene, beautiful beaches and superb restaurants. But Madrid, with its relaxed disposition, warm generosity and excellent museums, is full of wonderful restaurants that are great places to drink wine. I was thrilled by the breadth and variety I found in many places, which went far beyond the deep selections of Spanish wines that I remember on earlier trips. Like so much of the world, Madrid has fallen in love with Burgundy and Champagne, with many excellent bottles at prices far below what I’d expect to pay in New York. That goes for Spanish wines, too.
Locations: Madrid, Barcelona, Spain, Burgundy, Champagne, New York
☆ This Summer, Pause for the Vermouth Hour
  + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Eric Asimov | More About Eric Asimov | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Earlier this year while in Madrid, I fell prey to what the Spanish call la hora del vermut, the vermouth hour, a break in the day for a glass, generally before eating. Once you have ordered, servers arrive with a bottle of Spanish vermouth, which they will pour sometimes into tall Collins glasses, other times squat tumblers, but always filled with ice and garnished with an orange slice. The vermouth usually comes with a nosh, like a small bowl of green olives and a plate of picos, stubby little breadsticks. The vermouth hour is both a joyous custom to adopt and a bit of a revelation. I’ve always liked vermouth as an occasional aperitif, but to make a daily habit of it is to taste a stunning variety of possibilities.
Persons: I’ve Locations: Madrid, Spain, Salud
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