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Facts About Wine
By Gus Clemens
Sparkling at New Years
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New Years: when sparkling wines sparkle.
Sparkling is perfect pairing with just about any food but, for some reason, many pass on bubbly except for dawn of new year, when it is party drink.
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Thanksgiving 2
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You screwed up. You are in charge of Thanksgiving wine, and you thought about it, and you put if off until tomorrow, and now tomorrow is—Thanksgiving Day.
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Thanksgiving 1
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Thanksgiving—easiest of wine times.
Thanksgiving is enjoyed with people you know and love.
Everyone expects a good time: hearty laughter amid hearty repast. You can’t go wrong. Buy anything and it will be fine.
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Labor Day
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Labor Day is Janus-faced holiday.
Summer saunters away. No one will lament its passing this year, with endless 100-degree days, ranch-ravaging fires, reservoir-ravaging drought. Bring on autumn.
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Beer
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This is a wine column, but there is info for beer drinkers, too. During high summer, even wine lovers may enjoy a cool foamy.
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Wine tasting event #3
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The 27th Annual San Angelo Wine & Food Festival pours forth Thursday at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts and continues Friday at Fort Concho stables.
During past two weeks, we explored first three of five S’s of tasting wine: see, swirl, and smell. Today, we finally get to drink: sip and savor.
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Wine tasting event #2
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The 27th Annual San Angelo Wine & Food Festival pops corks Thursday, April 28 at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts and Friday, April 29 at Fort Concho.
To help you prepare, last week we visited the first of five S’s of tasting wine: see. Remaining are swirl, smell, sip, savor.
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Wine tasting event
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Enjoy the 27th Annual San Angelo Wine & Food Festival on Thursday, April 28 at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, and on Friday, April 29 at Fort Concho.
One of Texas’ oldest such wine adventures, many know this is a rollicking good time, a celebration of San Angelo’s sophistication and sipping savvy.
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Primer on Bubbly to Toast the New Year
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New Years and weddings are times most people enjoy “champagne”—the name many people use for sparkling wine in general, although it correctly applies only to sparkling made in Champagne region of France.
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