Pan-Seared, Flash-Baked Marinated Lamb Steaks
Alright Fun Hogs! I’ve got another food/wine pairing for you. I’m a big lamb fan, especially in the Spring, and found this year that Pan-Seared, Flash-Baked Marinated Lamb Steaks pair perfectly with Macindoe Family Cellars’ 2008 Eola-Amity Pinot Noir. The acidity in the wine cut through the weightier, dense flavors of the lamb, and the mushroom, wet forest floor, black tea flavors of the wine complemented the gamier flavor of the steak. The dark fruit flavors also lend the tiniest hint of...
Read MoreTurkey Tacos with Strawberry Salsa
Healthy, delicious and pairs well with wine! Those are my three favorite qualities of home cooked food. Sometimes I hit that sweet spot straight on, with healthy, low fat, fresh, local food that enhance (and are enhanced by!) the perfect wine. I must be honest: sometimes I miss. Big Time. For example, strawberry rhubarb pie and viognier sweet wine (MISS). But, sometimes I hit it straight on! And, that was the case last Wednesday with my Turkey Tacos with Strawberry Salsa paired with our 2009 Melon de Bourgogne....
Read MoreThe End of an Era
On Saturday, the first day of Gold Beach, Oregon’s Wine, Art & Music Festival, Scott sold Macindoe Family Cellars’ very last bottle of publicly available 2008 Melon de Bourgogne wine. Boy, were we excited!! Pop champagne!! Clink, clink, clink, fizz, fizz! Overflowing… ♪mayyy olllld acquaintance ♫ beeeee forgot…. La la la la la laaaaaah♪♫! ….But, I gotta be honest with you… the sale was also a tad bittersweet for us. The ‘08 Melon was MFC’s first vintage, and Scott’s favorite wine to...
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