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A Glass of Wine In the Morning

Date: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Recently returned from the IFE (that is, the International Franchise Expo), we of the Vintners Circle Franchising corporate team are tired, but thrilled. We are extremely happy with the trade show turnout, and spoke with hundreds of people interested in our wine making franchise. We would like to send our sincere gratitude to all of [...]

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Vintner’s Circle To Showcase Exciting Franchise Opportunities at IFE

Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Vintner’s Circle will be exhibiting at the International Franchise Expo this April 9th through 11th, offering potential franchisees a taste of the good (wine-driven) life. HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, April 6, 2010 – Thousands of entrepreneurs and business owners are congregating in Washington, DC this weekend at the largest franchise exposition in the United States. Vintner’s Circle [...]

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What To Make For Dinner: Roasted Chicken with Chardonnay

Date: Fri, Apr 2, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Chicken is a food that pairs well with many wines; depending on the ingredients, the sauce, the cut of meat, and the cooking method, you can match chicken with almost anything. This simple recipe is calls for roasting a whole chicken, cut in parts, with shallots, mushrooms, and Dijon mustard. A [...]

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Vintner’s Circle Dickson City To Celebrate Ribbon Cutting April 8th

Date: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Vintner’s Circle Dickson City will be celebrating its new venture this Thursday, April 8th, with a Ribbon Cutting ceremony. DICKSON CITY, PA, April 1 – Stan and Joanne Triplett, franchise owners of Lackawanna County’s first Vintner’s Circle, will cut the big red ribbon along with Dickson City’s Chamber of Commerce. The new Vintner’s Circle in Dickson [...]

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Region At a Glance: Mendoza

Date: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Mendoza lies in the central-western region of Argentina, flanked by vast stretches of flat, dry land to the east, and by the stately, ominous Andes to the west. It is the country’s most dominant oenological province: over an expanse of 356,000 acres, Mendoza produces nearly eighty percent of Argentina’s wine. Malbec is by far the most [...]

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Easter Wines

Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

As you set the table for Easter this Sunday, please don’t forget one of the most delicious dinner components: a bottle (or two, or three) of wine. With its myriad of possibilities, Easter dinner can pose a challenge to the person picking wines. I prefer to think of this challenge less daunting than fun; wine is [...]

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Wines and Magnets

Date: Tue, Mar 30, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Jolan, One of our regular customers brought in a new gadget today.  It was a simple disk supposedly magnetic, that when you place your bottle of wine on it for 30 minutes it will age the wine.  We actually tried it out with a barbaresco and did notice a difference. I was wondering if you’ve ever heard of such [...]

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What To Make For Dinner: Chicken Liver Pate with Riesling

Date: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

This chicken liver pate is adapted from Julia Child’s recipe, as found in Julia Child’s Menu Cookbook – that thick slab of a cookbook, whose recipes are interspersed with vaguely tinnish colored photos and slightly sardonic, but never nasty, short essays on ingredients and cooking techniques. The book is a great [...]

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Region At a Glance: Alsace

Date: Thu, Mar 25, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Alsace is located in northeastern France, on the border with Germany. In fact, Alsace has gone through several changes of political hand in the last four hundred years, which accounts for the bizarre, yet delicious, blending of French and German styles in food, language, architecture, and wine. The latter, our focus today, is dominated by [...]

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Pretension and the Palate

Date: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Concerning wine, many people have reservations when it comes to admitting personal taste. Why should this be so? Perhaps the reservation comes from inexperience with wine; people may flounder when asked to describe what they like, simply because they don’t know how to describe it. Perhaps the reservation comes from disinterest; [...]

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Kosher Wine

Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover, which commemorates the Hebrews’ exodus from Egypt, starts next Tuesday, March 30th, and continues for a week. As the Jewish calendar stipulates a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, the first night of celebration begins in a week, on Monday the 29th. During this ritualistic [...]

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What To Make For Dinner: Pork Roast with Cabernet Sauvignon

Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

This recipe for pork loin roast, slow-cooked and tender on the tongue, has been adapted from the Seriously Delicious Ribs found on food52. The initial dry rub, rich and spicy with paprika, garlic, and chipotle powder, pairs well with the wine in the following braising liquid. Cabernet Sauvignon, an assertive red wine, [...]

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Region At a Glance: Bordeaux

Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Bordeaux wine is named for its region: Bordeaux is a coastal area in the southwest of France, in turn with its own many sub-regions. Bordeaux is split by the Gironde river and its two tributaries, the Garonne and the Dordogne. Andrea Immer Robinson has a helpful way of picturing Bordeaux’s geographical layout: imagine a peace [...]

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The Art of Home Wine Making

Date: Wed, Mar 17, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

There is a serious trend in the United States, and it’s all about drinking wine. Wine drinking per capita is steadily increasing, and it has spread from the farthest hills of Napa Valley to the familiar green hills of New Jersey. As a natural extension of this increase, people are becoming more [...]

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