Food and Wine Pairing - Perfect Pairings

Double Cut Pork Chop with Mustard Sauce

Red wine - Meat

Asparagus and Goat-Cheese Frittata

Red wine - Poultry

Corn Chowder with Seasonal Mushrooms and Crab Garnish

White wine - Soup

Ridiculously Good Chocolate Cookies

Dessert wine - Dessert

Flank Steak over Corn-Kernel Polenta

Red wine - Meat

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19th Annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival

March 3-4 & 17, 2012 Napa Valley, California 19th Annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival The Mustard Season offers a full palette of food, wine, art, entertainment, and cultural activities staged throughout the world-famous grape growing region when fields, vineyards, and hillsides are vibrant with wild mustard in bloom.

California Wine Festival 2011

April 20-21, 2012 Orange County, California Wine, food, music, sea and sun. These elements create a unique wine tasting experience. Hundreds of California's best red and white wines, live music complemented by dozens of top chefs and specialty food purveyors. Experience one of California's most popular wine festivals.

Winery Reviews

Food and Wine Pairing starts with great wine. Check out the wineries we've visited and how this can add to the food and wine pairing fun!

Winery list (page 1 of 2)

St Clement is Worth It

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Anytime is a great time to wine taste, but if you like to avoid the crowds and get personal attention, go now. This time of year and before bud break there are typically fewer people visiting (...) View more >

Chimney Rock Rocks!

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Chimney Rock was established in 1980 and has been getting great ratings from Wine Spectator for some time. It’s a small tasting room and Tom Ebert (wine educator) was very enjoyable and pleasant. (...) View more >

Larkmead

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Larkmead is a long time winery in Napa Valley, but few people know of it in that manner. The vineyards date back to the late 1800s, and have been owned by the Solari family for almost 60 years (...) View more >

Chateau St Jean

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

We had a great tasting at Chateau St Jean, so good in fact that we didn’t feel the need to do our second tasting of the day. Most of the time tastings include no more than 5 or 6 wines, and leave (...) View more >

Etude Rocks

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

We had the pleasure of a tour today at Etude. Etude is the creation of one of California's most influential and successful winemakers/consultants, Tony Soter. He is a Pinot Noir enthusiast. He also (...) View more >

Beringer - I know what I have

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I’ve seen it from the road many times, but I have never stopped. Nothing about the older wineries really interested so I stuck with the smaller or cult wineries. Those wineries were fun and I got (...) View more >

Paul Hobbs

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Paul Hobbs; you may not know his name but you know his wines. Mondavi? Opus One? Right. His wines have been a part of us for a long time. I had the pleasure of having my first Paul Hobbs Canernet (...) View more >

Cuvaison Winery

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I visited Cuvaison’s Napa tasting facility today. The leaves were turning and the vineyards looked beautiful. I pulled in and parked, and was immediately impressed with the friendliness of the (...) View more >

Barnwood - Central Coast

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I was driving home from a conference in Santa Barbara and was amazed at all the wineries. Every time I passed one and told myself I should stop but then I'd talk myself out of it due to the 6 hour (...) View more >

A. Rafanelli Winery - Sonoma Valley

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

We had a private tasting at A. Rafanelli Winery. Small Healdsburg producer of Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot. Tasting by appointment only.

The Rafanelli family is now in its fourth (...) View more >