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The Hartford Courant’s competition for Connecticut’s top blogs is now open for public voting, and we need your help! Please help us by taking a second to vote for CT Food & Wine for both categories we’ve been nominated for: TOP SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT and TOP FOOD BLOG. You can vote now at The Websters, Connecticut’s Top Blogs of 2012. The voting period will run from Monday, March 26 at 9 a.m. through March 30, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. You may vote ten (10) times per day, per valid email address for a total of fifty (50) votes. For official...
Santa Margherita’s 2010 Pinot Grigio has a very very light yellow color, with wonderful lightly sweet yet tart aroma that smells like a grape spree candy melted in the sun combined with sweet pear notes. It’s smooth, silky mouth feel is expertly balanced with minerality you’d expect. It’s so easy to drink that it almost feels as if it lacks some real vibrant acidity to give it some sort of kick. Having tasted many interesting wines recently, this 2010 felt dull to me initially. Alas, not all wines are created to kick you in the mouth with pizazz, and this...
Sharpe Hill is home to New England’s best selling wine, a secret blend of upwards of 10 grape varieties that serves well as an aperitif but also pairs quite well with food. Set out on the slopes of a 700 foot hill, Sharpe Hill grows Chardonnay, Riesling, Cabernet Franc, St. Croix, Vignoles, Merlot and more. So what is the secret behind their successful wines? The secret may lay in the land. John Schenck wrote in the 2011-12 early winter edition of Edible Nutmeg, “A consultant from Alsace, where many great Rieslings are produced, confirmed that the soil on Sharpe Hill’s...
WESTPORT, Conn. – More outdoor seating areas may be popping-up in downtown Westport this spring. On Wednesday, the Board of Selectmen unanimously approved a policy that allows the creation of pop-up cafes and pop-up seating along certain one-way streets. This new policy will permit merchants along Main Street and other one-way roads to install on-street cafes or seating areas in converted curbside parking spaces outside their businesses. The policy was created by Planning and Zoning Commissioner Howard Lathrop and Parks and Recreation Commissioner Jennifer Johnson, with help from Assistant Town Attorney Gail Kelly. To read the full article click here....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut took the first step requiring producers to label genetically modified food Wednesday, as a legislative committee overwhelmingly backed a measure promoted as giving consumers more information while avoiding the debate over health concerns. The legislature’s Environment Committee voted 23-6 to approve the measure, allowing supporters to prevail over opponents who said the measure would lead to higher packaging costs. “It’s something that’s coming, and I think we can be in the forefront in helping shape how it’s done,” said Democratic Rep. Richard Roy, the committee’s House chairman. “Think of us as the mouse that roared.”...
(ABOVE) Carroll Hughes, lobbyist for the Connecticut Package Stores Association, speaks at a hearing for retail alcohol sales on Sundays at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Hughes says his group is now supporting retail sales on Sunday, but that other parts of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plan to overhaul state liquor laws will hurt many mom-and-pop liquor stores. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) Photo: Jessica Hill, Associated Press / AP2012 The Day reported today, “A tactical decision by the state’s package store lobby yielded early results Tuesday when a legislative committee made key changes to Gov....
The 2010 Chardonnay from Chateau St Jean from Sonoma County is another great value out of California. Very slightly hazy, slightly oaked with just the right hint of butter providing a nice silky mouth feel. A small bit of caramelized sugar flavor, great balance with a medium finish that drinks quite well. The only downside is it comes through a little hot from the alcohol. We give this an 87 and is still a good buy at only $10-12 dollars. Perfect for those who like a little creamy chard that still has green apple on the nose. From the vineyard,...
Barley, hops, water and yeast. Exceptional ingredients from a pristine country are carefully united to produce the finest beer in the world. Traditional craft of roasting barley gives this beer a wonderful dark ruby red color (hold your glass up to the light!). Forget the Irish car bombs, green beer, jive vodkas and all other rubbish served up in plastic cups this Saint Patrick’s day. In Ireland there is only one drink of choice. Frankly, this raw and unpretentious dram is all you’ll ever need. Step 1: Drink Guinness. Lovely sweet toasty malt, roasted grains and a bitter finish will...
Yesterday at New Haven’s Taste of the Nation event or TON, celebrity chef Duff Goldman was a special guest. Goldman, of Charm City Cakes and Food Network’s “Ace of Cakes”, was at the Yale Commons Dining Hall at Woolsey Hall. Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation is the nation’s premier culinary benefit, featuring top chefs and mixologists — all of whom are coming together to donate their time, talent and passion to end childhood hunger in America. More than 40 of the finest chefs and restaurants plus more than 15 beer, wine, and soft drink sponsors participated in the...
