culinary journeys WINE

What to drink with Asian foods?

by Phil Parker
The knee-jerk wine normally associated with Asian cuisine is Gewürztraminer. Spicy food = spicy wine. End of story. Or is it? Surely, this is doing a disservice to the enormously varied palette of tastes and textures offered to us by Asian foods and cooking methods. . . [more]

NEW ZEALAND WINE: a fresh, vibrant phenomenon

by Terry Copeland
When Samuel Marsden planted New Zealand's very first grape vines on September 25, 1819, nobody could have envisaged the shape, diversity or international success the local product would eventually have on the world stage. . . [more]