Farmstead Cheeses and Wines: Jeff’s Blog

Sparkling Wine 101

Most of us associate sparkling wines with festive occasions - especially the traditional New Year’s Toast. So what better time to discuss Champagnes and their relative sparklers than right now?

Almost all the world’s winemaking regions produce sparkling wine from a wide variety of grapes. [...]

We were driving to Cortona. The clouds and sunflowers were so beautiful that I had to pull over and take a few snapshots….. 

Tips from the Wine and Cheese Guy
Turkey Wines

No, not wines from Anatolia (although they are starting to produce some great wines in Turkey); this month, we’re talkin’ turkey - gobble gobble - and the wines that go or don’t go with them.

Here’s the deal: you’ve [...]

Here we are in Assisi….

Whew! Well, we are two thirds through the “Holiday” season here at Farmstead (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years’ Day), and boy, are we ever flourishing!
We set a new sales record the day before Thanksgiving, met it the Saturday prior to Christmas weekend, broke it on the 23rd, and then shattered that record on the [...]

Another Alameda Sun Article……
The Twenty Minute Rule
Like the Three Bears of the nursery story, most of us tend to serve our wine either too warm or too cold, hardly ever just right. We seldom serve wine at proper temperature, and this contributes to almost as much bad-tasting wine [...]

Outside of Pisa……

Here’s an article on Fondue, from the 12/14/05 Alameda Sun:
Do You Fondue?
It’s wintertime here on The Island, and thoughts turn to melted cheese. That’s right, it’s Fondue Time! Personally, I can’t think of a better way to eat some cheese.
The name fondue comes from the past participle of the French verb fondre (to melt), so [...]

Here’s My article on Fondue, from the 12/14/05 Alameda Sun:
Do You Fondue?
It’s wintertime here on The Island, and thoughts turn to melted cheese. That’s right, it’s Fondue Time! Personally, I can’t think of a better way to eat some cheese.
The name fondue comes from the past participle of the French verb fondre (to melt), so [...]

Here’s one of the last photos of our sweetheart, Danni, who passed away in October from bone cancer. We miss her terribly, she was a wonderful friend.