The Best Wines For Thanksgiving Dinner
Bella Breakdown Thanksgiving is a time to indulge, to prepare a bountiful feast, and to enjoy a few drinks with the ones you love. While the meal usually centers around the food, the hallmark of any Thanksgiving table, the drinks can be equally as important and festive. Holiday cocktails, champagne, and sparkling cider are all fun and celebratory accompaniments to a full table of food. If wine is your drink of choice though – or maybe the preference of some of your family members – it’s important to choose something that appeals to many people, as well as compliments...
Food And Wine Pairing For Pinot Noir
Wine Pairing If you enjoy wine, pour yourself a glass of one of Kim Crawford’s favorites. Every wine has great pairings with different foods and flavors. Here’s a couple you might not have known about. Pinot Noir is one of the most well-known red wines. It has a reputation for pairing with fancy meats like duck and fibrous veggies like mushrooms, but there’s a little more depth to this complex flavor than you may have heard. For instance, did you know Pinot Noir goes great with fish? Blasphemous, I know. Fish is the territory of white wine. But it’s...
This Advent Calendar Will Really Get You Into the Holiday Spirit
Bella Breakdown The way in which we celebrate the holidays in the past few years has gotten a lot more extra if you will. We find a lot of different ways to excuse excessive eating and drinking, and you guys, this Christmas is no different. In comes the wine advent calendar. That’s right, you can celebrate 12 days of wine… I mean Christmas. If you want to celebrate 24, than be sure to purchase 2. Vinebox has created perfectly curated boxes featuring 12 different wines. The best part is that each wine is bottled in the perfect glass-sized vial....
Pairing Fast Food Combos With Wine
Bella Breakdown If I could dream up the perfect meal, it would probably be heaps of something from Taco Bell and a bottle of Rose. For some reason though, that is not a meal that you should be proud of, and I’m not totally sure why. I think it sounds amazing. It turns out I’m not the only one who feels like fast food and wine would make a fantastic combination. Business Insider and a few professional sommeliers put together a list of the best fast food and wine pairings. Here are the top 5: 5. In-n-Out Double Double...
All You Need To Know About Wine
Bella Breakdown We have all met those people who go out to dinner and order a glass of wine. They spin it, sniff it, take the world’s tiniest sip and then try to tell you about all of the obscure tastes and aromas they’re experiencing. I’m sorry, but 99% of those tastes and aromas are probably made up. And frankly, it seems sacrilegious to just spit it back out again. If I got wine tasting, please believe I’m leaving with a belly full of wine. So, for the most basic of wine drinkers, what are the most important things...
