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Blog Post #64 – Food & Wine: Restaurant (main course)

  • Blog Post #3 – Food & Wine (appetizers)

    This post will be my first cheese board. Whenever we do Happy Hour at home or have a tapas dinner, my wife & I like to start with a cheese board. I thought I would begin with an easy one, where everything on the board was chosen to pair with one wine, in this case…

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  • Blog Post #2 – Food & Wine (appetizers)

    This week’s post involves the first pairing, so I will make it an easy one. The appetizer is Hannaford’s Taste of Inspirations – Spanakopita. The wine that goes best, according to my team of experts, was either a NY State Riesling or a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. As a sommelier, I would recommend the Sauvignon…

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  • Blog Post #1 – Education

    Here is the basic structure all future posts will take. Each week, I will publish a new blog in one of the 3 active categories (eventually there will be 5 categories). Since I am based in Clinton (NY), most of my posts will be relevant to that location. However, much of what I have to…

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