LIFE Food & Drink The sixth annual Tour de Palate, 7 p.m. Saturday, will support the Go Mitch Go Foundation. The organization strives to find a cure for blood cancer and lymphoma. Tickets for the event are $65 apiece or $120 for a pair. At the door, the ticket price will be $80. Guests must […]
wine
Posted inArts & Culture
Street Trash
Debuting on Blu-ray in Synapse Films’ “Special Meltdown Edition,” the 1987 skid-row epic centers on an auto junkyard populated by homeless winos. One of them, who looks like famed Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate, finds that a decades-old bottle of Tenafly Viper purchased at the local liquor store causes those who drink it […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Tap that
It’s not the equivalent of serving box wines, however. These are high-quality wines from respected producers like Charles Bieler, Joel Gott and Charles Smith, and delivered in a standard 5.17-gallon keg (26 bottles). Currently, Oklahoma City has a limited selection, but bar managers and wine brokers are planning expansion. Sauced on Paseo, 2912 Paseo, has […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Hooray for rosé
Liquid Geography at Edmond Wine Shop By: Mark Hancock So says a famous bumper sticker by winemakers Charles Bieler and Charles Smith. Bieler is credited with helping bring about a rosé revolution in the U.S., and its popularity is growing in Oklahoma City as well. Many metro restaurants — including La Baguette Bistro, 7408 N. […]
Posted inNews
Paseo visionary
“All of a sudden, everyone hears this big, baritone voice, and it reverberated throughout the entire building,” said Karen Orr, the gallery owner. “I can’t get that out of my head. There was no microphone, and it wasn’t required.” Belt, an attorney and urban developer, was known for working behind the scenes and doing little […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Chile outside
By: Mark Hancock Names like Frontera, Concha y Toro and Walnut Crest offered buyers drinkable wines at less than $10. While Chile remains a value-based market, new names are emerging and better-quality wines are now appearing on metro shelves and wine lists. Concha y Toro is probably the best known Chilean label. Along with secondary […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Seeing red
This year’s crop includes both affordable and moderately expensive bottles. Canard Vineyard has sold its Napa Valley fruit to the Ravenswood and Mondavi vineyards for nearly two decades. The Zinfandel comes from vines more than 100 years old. The acres of Cabernet, Merlot and Cabernet Franc were planted in the 1980s. Canard (French for “duck”) […]
Posted inNews
Sauced and inked
Credit: Brad Gregg If your everyday vocab consists of words like “complex, dry and spicy,” and it has nothing to do with your love life, there’s a good chance, dear “wine enthusiast,” that you are, in fact, a lush. Lucky for you, Urban Wineworks, Plaza District’s proud little winery, would like to celebrate with you. […]
Posted inFood & Drink
You’re doin’ vine, Oklahoma
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB” lang=”EN-GB”> Currently, Oklahoma wineries account for nearly $100 million in economic impact annually. As of 2010, there were 51 licensed wineries and 139 grape-growers in the state. The industry provided 840 jobs for Oklahomans. The numbers come from a survey by California-based Frank, Rimerman + Co. “Ninety to 95 percent of all […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Red, red wine
It may be a bit early, however, for the big Syrahs and Cabernets; Pinot Noir is the perfect transitional red wine. Pinot is making its way onto fall wine lists around town. Melanie Chesser, owner of Vin Dolce (16 S. Broadway) in Edmond, said she is adding two new glasses of Pinot to her impressive […]