Passie voor wijn gevoed met emotie
Mijn passie voor wijn is jaren geleden ontstaan in Frankrijk alwaar het door een Franse wijnboer is gevoed met emotie. Het was oktober en rond 17.00 kwamen wij (4 vrienden in een campertje)aan bij een afgelegen camping in het Rhônegebied. De camping was gesloten en...
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Food & Wine pairing: chef Dick Soek
Chef Dick Soek (55) has a passion for local ingredients. In his restaurant Piloersemaborg, a seventeenth-century farm in the village Den Ham in the north of The Netherlands, he stocks the kitchen with produce from nearby farmers, hunters and fisherman. The pig...
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Living life to the fullest
Jazz and wine are the main passions of Dutch jazzsinger Joyce Stevens. The founder of the jazzband ‘Mijne Heeren’ now combines the two in an ingenious musical project: ‘Jazz and Wine’. Together with Tico Pierhagen (piano) en Pieter Althuis (contrabase) she brings her...
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Three ultimate Spanish summer wines. Olé!
This beautiful summer will soon be over… Or will autumn wait a little while? Anyway, with a wonderful weekend ahead and wine coolers on the table, Share A Bottle presents its ultimate choice of Spanish summer wines. Be prepared for a sunny weekend! Txakolí...
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Sideways
Sideways (2004) is an American comedy-drama film about two men, Miles (Paul Giamatti) and Jack (Thomas Haden Church), both in their forties. To celebrate Jack’s upcoming wedding, they decide to go on a wine trip through Santa Barbara County, California. The...
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Breaking the pairing rules
People often think proper food-wine pairing is based on strict rules. That’s a great misconception. In fact, breaking the pairing rules can lead to extremely interesting combinations. We will let you in on a few magical secrets: Riesling is often considered a bad...
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Wine nonsense unravelled
Urban legends and half-truths. There’s a lot of nonsense going around about wine. Share A Bottle closely examined five health statements. Are they true or false? 1# White wine, rosé and champagne contain more calories than red. A myth, the amount of calories doesn’t...
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Drink safely. Use a wine condom!
What happened? That delicious bottle of Pinot Noir you opened last night is still half full. You know too much oxygen will kill the taste. Fortunately, there’s a handy new gadget to preserve your precious leftover: the wine condom. Simply unroll this piece of rubber...
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Stunning theme park: La Cité du Vin
French wine heaven Bordeaux has a stunning new attraction: a theme park dedicated to wine on the quays of the Garonne. La Cité du Vin is an ultra modern 55-metre high building in an organic liquid form, that resembles waltzing wine in a glass. Although the residents...
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8 easy fixes to cool your wine
An unexpected sunny day and friends pop by spontaneously. Barbecue time! Just as you’re happily lighting the charcoal you realize the wine is still at room temperature. How to chill those divine Pouilly Fumé’s and Côtes du Rhônes before the meat is done? One thing is...
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