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Taking a bite out of wine, food and related cultural phenomena, McDuff's Food & Wine Trail focuses on European wine as well as the dining scene in the Philadelphia/New York corridor.
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Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo
It's been a little over a year now since I last had the chance to meet up with Giuseppe Vajra and to taste through a range of his family's wines in formal fashion. It was great to see him, a pleasure I hope will be repeated before long. A...
Barolo Tasted Blind with the Wine and Spirits Tasting Panel
Though an evening spent at The Ten Bells may have been the chief pleasure of a long day trip to New York last week, the primary impetus for the commute was an invitation to participate in a panel tasting of new/current releases from Piemonte at Wine ...
One Word, Two Words, Three Words, True Words
Enjoyed a great meal with friends and family at Marigold Kitchen last weekend. As I opted not to take detailed wine notes, I thought this would be as good a time as any to respond in kind to some of my peers' demonstrations of anti-verbosity. So he...
Southern Exposure
Rémy Charest, author of The Wine Case, is today’s host for Wine Blogging Wednesday #55. He’s asked participants to consider the question of North vs. South in writing about two wines made from the same grape but hailing from different locations...
LA Area Tasting Alert
I thought I’d share a quick news flash today, for any followers of the Trail based in the greater Los Angeles area. My friend Giuseppe Vajra will be pouring a selection of the Piedmontese wines from his family’s estate, G.D. Vajra, this Thursday...
A Passion for Piedmont – The WBW 54 Recap
It’s been my pleasure to host the 54th edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday – “A Passion for Piedmont” – here at McDuff’s Food & Wine Trail. There truly was a fiery passion for Piedmont expressed throughout the wine blogosphere. And it wa...
Paitin di Pasquero-Elia and the Question of (Post)Modernism in Piedmont
Today is the 54th installment of Wine Blogging Wednesday. As host of this edition, which I’ve called “A Passion for Piedmont,” I thought it only appropriate to approach things from a bigger perspective than it’s possible to convey via the us...
Coste della Sesia, WBW 54 Reminder #3 (and even more bonus points)
The one-week countdown to WBW 54, “A Passion for Piedmont,” starts today. Just in case you missed it, you can start from the beginning with my original announcement. In last week’s reminder, I issued a little bonus point challenge. As that w...
WBW 54 Reminder #2 (including a bonus point challenge) and a Delicious Barbera
The two week countdown has begun for the 54th edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, which will be hosted right here at MFWT. Just in case anyone missed the original announcement, this month’s topic is “A Passion for Piedmont.” All you have to d...
A Passion for Piedmont: WBW Reminder #1
Coming so quickly on the heels of my announcement of the theme for February’s edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, today is a bit soon to post purely as a reminder. Instead, I thought I’d offer up a few recommendations for some supplemental infor...
Announcing WBW 54: A Passion for Piedmont
Tuscany may get all the attention when it comes to dreaming of idyllic vacations in the Italian countryside, while Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan usually top the list of destinations for the city traveler. Of all the spots in Italy I’ve visited,...
Due Nebbioli I Didn't Like
Regular readers will have deduced by now that I feel a particular affinity toward the wines of Piedmont, in particular to the many regional iterations of Nebbiolo. I like Nebbiolo, too, when grown in the precarious, high altitude area of Valtellina, ...
