What wines pair best with ham?
Easter Sunday, a time to reflect and celebrate the Lord's resurrection, and a time to gather with family and friends to share a special meal together. Traditional Easter menus tend to center around either a roasted ham or a leg of lamb, begging the question, "Which wine goes best with what?" We'll start with the ham.
For years diners have been stifled by dogmatic and over generalized rules of food and wine pairing. White with fish or chicken, and red with meat. Clearly if this were sufficient treatment of this topic the discussion wouldn’t have continued this long. This being said, how does one know which wine will compliment which dish? The short, clichéd answer is always the one that you will enjoy the most. But obviously this raises many more questions than it answers.
How many bottles of red wine do you drink in a year compared to white? What is the ratio of reds to whites in your cellar?
Unless you suffer red wine headaches my guess would be you drink dramatically more red than white and your cellar is overwhelmingly red. Blame The French Paradox.
Who was Dom Pérignon? Do you know the common European term for zinfandel?
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Bartholomew Broadbent on Port, Madeira, and Great Quirky Wines from across the Globe
He's been named as one of the “fifty most influential people in the wine world" by Decanter Magazine. Bartholomew Broadbent. The company he founded was nominated "Importer of the Year for 2005" by Wine Enthusiast. Prior to launching his own firm, he worked for a "Who's Who" list of the world's elite wine establishments with names like Harrod’s, Harvey’s Fine Wine Merchants, and Christie’s in London, the Rothbury Estate and Yalumba Winery in Australia, Hennessy and L’Academie du Vin in France, and Schenley in Canada, gracing his resumé.
‘Sans le soleil je ne suis rien’ Without the sun I am nothing is the motto of one of the most vinous jewels from the Provence. North east of Aix en Provence, between Rians and Jouques, lies an elegant two-storey château, dating from 1771.
A review article of the latest studies looking at red wine and cardiovascular health shows drinking two to three glasses of red wine daily is good for the heart, according to a Yale School of Medicine researcher in the Journal of American College of Surgeons.
Just as there are many kinds of wine throughout the world, the vocabulary used when describing wine is vast and potentially confusing. Learn to navigate the wine world with confidence with the Vino! Glossary of Wine Terms.
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Who was Dom Pérignon? Do you know the common European term for zinfandel? 
Bartholomew Broadbent on Port, Madeira, and Great Quirky Wines from across the Globe
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Château Vignelaure
A review article of the latest studies looking at red wine and cardiovascular health shows drinking two to three glasses of red wine daily is good for the heart, according to a Yale School of Medicine researcher in the Journal of American College of Surgeons.
Just as there are many kinds of wine throughout the world, the vocabulary used when describing wine is vast and potentially confusing. Learn to navigate the wine world with confidence with the Vino! Glossary of Wine Terms.
