Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  This month the Italian Food Wine Travel writers are looking at organic, biodynamic, and natural wines of Italy. Katarina of Grapevine Adventures is hosting the group and shared this post . If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join us on Twitter at 8am on Saturday, March 5th. Follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here are the articles that the writers are sharing on this topic... Nicole at Somm's Table pairs Cavalleri Franciacorta with Braised Collard Greens and Polenta. Wendy at A Day in the Life on the Farm is  Discovering Ziobaffa Wines . Camilla at Culinary Adventures with Camilla shares With an Ethos of Quality and Sustainability: ZIOBAFFA Pinot Grigio Terre Siciliane IGT + Braised Celery Over Farro Couscous. Susannah at Avvinare declares Tuscany's Querciabella Leads the Way on Vegan Wines . Gwendolyn at Wine Predator discusses  Maliosa Saturnia Biodynamic Natural Wine: Red, Wh...

Birthday Bocce at the Donkey & Goat Tasting Room, April 2017 This month the Wine Pairing Weekend bloggers are looking at the harvest or winemaking through the lens of climate change or other environmental factors with Gwendolyn of Wine Predator at the lead. You can read her invitation: here . If you are reading this early enough, feel free to jump on the live Twitter chat on Saturday, September 12th at 8am Pacific time. Follow the hashtag #WinePW and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. In the meantime, all of these posts will be live before Saturday morning's chat. Our Good Life is celebrating Harvest Time at Twin Meadows Winery .  The Quirky Cork discusses The Art of the Harvest . Asian Test Kitchen pours French Style Wines by the Sea from Windy Oaks (With 3 Fab Food Pairings) Avvinare declares Robert Biale Petite Sirah & BBQ, A Perfect Match . Somm's Table posts A Harvest at Forlorn Hope & Juicy Lucies .  Always Ravenous ...

I had originally planned to share this pairing next month when L.M. Archer hosts the French Winophiles as we explore Gérard Betrand Wines. But, then, I received a surprise bottle from the event sponsors and wanted to showcase that one instead. So this is just for fun, a bonus Gérard Betrand pairing. In My Glass The 2014 Gérard Bertrand 2014 Kosmos is an organic wine, produced with a natural and biodynamic approach. You can read different explorations I've done in different wine groups around biodynamic wines. Gwen, of Wine Predator , has had us focusing on biodynamic wines in all of our wine groups this year, including #ItalianFWT and #Winophiles. For those events, I shared, respectively:  Dinner in Testosterone Land: Braised Short Ribs + 2016 Nuova Cappelletta Barbera del Monferrato  and  Learning about Biodynamic Wines + M.Chapoutier Wines with Some Cross-Cultural Pairings . I'll be honest, I appreciate learning about biodynamic practices and I truly...

Welcome to March's edition with the Italian Food Wine Travel bloggers group. Can you believe it's March already?!? I can't. This month, Gwendolyn of Wine Predator is hosting us as we explore the biodynamic wines of Italy. She has raised this question in all of the wine groups to which she belongs this year. We explored French biodynamic wines in January when I posted Learning About Biodynamic Wines . And Gwen has us tasting and pairing biodynamic wines from anywhere in the world for April's Wine Pairing Weekend. I can't wait to share my pairing with a biodynamic wine from Mendocino! You can read her invitation to the #ItalianFWT bloggers here . Before I get to my dinner in Testosterone Land, here's what the #ItalianFWT bloggers shared... Jill of L’Occasion: Gravner: Nature As A Source Of Thought Camilla of Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Dinner in Testosterone Land: Braised Short Ribs + 2016 Nuova Cappelletta Barbera del Monferrato Wendy ...

When Gwendolyn of Wine Predator challenged the French Winophiles to explore and pair biodynamic wines this month, I almost didn't participate. It's not that I didn't want to learn about biodynamic practices and try some of the wines; I was completely intrigued by her invitation post which you can read here . But the boys have launched into build season for robotics and given that they are both on the team and Jake is the team mentor, it's become a family affair and my free time is also completely dominated by supporting this venture. Still, I figured I would stop by one of my favorite shops, on the way home from work one night, and if they had some French biodynamic wines, I would join in the fun and games. Lo and behold, Renee not only had some, but she knew a lot about them. She talked about burying a cow's horn and planting by the light of the full moon. But really, she was just underscoring the fact that biodynamic winemakers have a more spiritual approa...