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‘InterWined In Conversation’
In Conversation with Planet of the Grapes
This week, InterWined.com brings you a special one-off interview with Matt Harris of the hugely likeable, always interesting, Planet of the Grapes wine sellers in London.
Click the title to view the full interview.
The christmas press party at Moody’s Investors Service was held last night in the upper walkways of Tower Bridge, high above the Thames. PR guy Daniel told InterWined that the place gave the ratings agency a good deal on the evening’s rental, £15,000 for three hours.
You think the Tower could serve decent food for that […]
The medical industry evolves rapidly. That’s part of their business models for maintaining high levels of profitability. But that isn’t an InterWined complaint. What’s money when lives are saved, or at least lived to the fullest comfort?
One of the latest moves is to get people off of pills. This is based on a new set […]
Ok, so I normally wouldn’t do this…but I recently lied to a friend of mine about reading his wine book, which was recently published.
I also told him I bought 20 copies to give to friends for Christmas.
Which I didn’t.
And, on top of that, he asked me for a review of his book: a no-nonsense, opinion-based […]
Each Friday, InterWined.com pairs one great wine with one great meal and publishes the results, along with the recipe.
Today, ‘Blow the Bank’ serves you the second of its two turkey-free dishes, aimed to guide you through the tumultuous week that marks the starting bell for the mad dash toward Chrismukah and New Year’s and help you to recover from the horrors of packed shopping aisles and empty wallets.
Lamb neck or scrag, as it’s sometimes known, is a fairly inexpensive and fatty cut of meat that cooks up a treat in casserole dishes and traditional stews. It’s also great for making simple, easy to prepare meals, such as InterWined’s own Black Friday Lambwiches.
Simply put, the Windy Peak 2006 Pinot Noir from De Bortoli, available from Sainsbury’s for £8.99, makes the perfect match for Black Friday Lambwiches, with its abundant concentration lamb-friendly aromas and fruity flavours (cherries, plums, pomegranates). Like the lamb neck, it’s young and easy-going, and makes a spot-on remedy to trials of Black Friday.
As some past reviews, this wine’s price might not technically ‘Blow the Bank’ but it might well prove difficult to find for readers. In which case, InterWined would recommend looking to one of De Bortoli’s other wine labels, of which there are several, such as the popular Gulf Station available in the US from Little Bros Beverages and K & L Wine Merchants.
InterWined’s Own Recipe In Full
Black Friday Lambwiches
Click on the post to view and download the recipe
Each Friday, InterWined.com pairs one great wine with one great meal and publishes the results, along with the recipe.
Or so that’s the plan.
So, what happened last week?
After all, didn’t ‘Blow the Bank’ just return from a two-week hiatus?
The answer is a special two-for-one: For one week only, ‘Blow the Bank’ is taking over InterWined.com to give you two turkey-free dinners in an effort to guide you through the week that marks the first of America’s turkey-filled, turkey-fueled holidays and the starting bell for the mad dash toward Chrismukah and New Year’s.
The first, published today, is InterWined’s own recipe for Chicken Mole with Tomatillos and Almond Flakes, a dish designed to take you away from pressures of cooking a 16-pound bird for an ever-growing list of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and once-removed cousins and kin.
The second, published Friday, aims to help you forget the inevitable drink-induced fallings-out and crazed, free-for-all, shop-fest fatigue that follows America’s great day of thanks.
In cooking terms, mole ranks as one of the handful of truly great and inspired Mexican contributions to world cuisine, with its unorthodox blend of chocolate, peppers, and spices. So, while some might find the thought of serving chicken, duck, or — yes; even turkey — with chocolate sickly, don’t believe the hype. Its subtle contrast of flavours proves sugar & spice and everything nice goes into more than just little girls.
As mentioned elsewhere, chardonnay is often the de-facto, no-imagination, partner to chicken that’s as ubiquitous, boring, and tiring to see as skinny jeans on every girl and boy that fancy themselves the next waif model or lead singer in a band whose name begins with ‘The’…
But every once in a while, one must swallow his pride and admit that no matter how many people look like David Banner moments before he warns you that ‘you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry’, some people really do look incredibly good in skinny jeans. The problem is that every time you see someone suited to skinny jeans, you realise just how awful everyone else that wears them really looks.
And, believe it or not, the same is true of chicken and chardonnay. Sometimes, the two are made for each other. Sometimes, the flavours of the chardonnay compliment the chicken dish in such a beautiful and unexpected way that you suddenly realise how so many people got the impression that the two went together so well in the first place. If it only it were always thus.
Fortunately, such is the case with the 2005 Glen Carlou Chardonnay Reserve, £13.99 from Oddbins, its wild mix of fruit and cinnamon proving perfectly suited to the Mexican mole. A big wine, the Glen Carlou nevertheless sits alongside the abundance of flavours in the mole without ever attempting to overtake it and comes off all the better for it. This is a chardonnay to make you forget that you don’t like chardonnay: 8.9.
InterWined’s Own Recipe In Full
Chicken Mole with Tomatillos and Almond Flakes
Click on the post to view and download the recipe
A review of previous studies indicates that use of a pedometer, especially with a daily step goal, is associated with significant increases in physical activity (additional walking of about a mile a day) and decreases in body mass index and blood pressure, according to an article in the November 21 issue of JAMA.
More than half […]
Earlier this week, InterWined was asked to name the perfect wine to go with the Daniel Radcliffe vehicle, My Boy Jack, directed by my friend Brian Kirk.
While there may be numerous excellent pairings, the best choice seems to be the 3 de Valandraud 2001, St. Emilion Grand Cru. The wine is a classically […]
Jeez. I know there is supposed to be health news around this time of the week, and I have some: eating leafy vegetables decreases the amount of scar tissue after suffering a heart attack. Was going to put up 400 words or so on that study.
But…
After Monday’s opening of the Champagne Bar located in the […]
InterWined faced an interesting challenge last night: to pair wine with a very specific movie. I rang my friend Brian Kirk to tell him I was eagerly anticipating watching the movie he just directed, My Boy Jack, starring Daniel Radcliff, the actor who came to fame as Harry Potter. I asked if I should have […]
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