Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month the French Winophiles are celebrating Fall with Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm at the head. If you are reading this early enough, feel free to jump in on our Twitter chat. We go live on Saturday, October15th at 8am Pacific. Follow the hashtag #Winophiles and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here's the line-up of articles that the writers have in store for you... Jeff of Food Wine Click! takes us to   Backroads Bourgogne in Autumn: Bistro des Falaises   Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm is Celebrating Fall French Style Cam of Culinary Adventures with Camilla shares Europe by Milk Run, Coquilles Saint-Jacques, and L'un Des Sens Orange Wine  Gwendolyn of Wine Predator is  Falling for Fall with Four French Wines plus Instant Pot Beef Bourguignonne Pot Pie Susannah of Avvinare shares Cru Bourgeois: Perfect for Fall Fare I don't usually tie in a book with my #Winophiles posts unless it's a book we have all agre...

Last month the Italian Food, Wine & Travel - #ItalianFWT - blogging group wrapped up our last region of Italy: Liguria. And this month, we're exploring the orange wines of Italy. Thanks to Jeff of FoodWineClick for hosting! Here's  Jeff's take on orange wines  from a previous event. Follow along the journey with my fellow #ItalianFWT bloggers.  You can also chat with us live this Saturday morning at 11am EST on Twitter at #ItalianFWT.  Hope to see you there! Orange Wine?!? Yes. Orange wines are to white wine grapes what rosés are to reds. Orange wines are essentially white wines where the skins make contact with the wine - sometimes for days or even months. That contact produces the orange color and increases the tannins which adds complexity. Along with the complexity comes a meatiness and - to be completely candid - some unexpected funkiness. There's no other way to put it: orange wines are odd and get mixed reviews. They are definitely not for everyon...

I was very excited to learn about this wine - Donkey & Goat 's 2013 Roussanne, Stone Crusher - from Martin at ENOFLYZ Wine Blog . Thanks for the great tip! First, Donkey & Goat is based in Berkeley; though I haven't lived there in almost 20 years, it still has a warm spot in my heart. Second, there's Jared and Tracey's manifesto: read it here . These are two winemakers I'd really love to meet. Maybe someday. I actually ordered their Thanksgiving 6-pack, so I have five more Donkey & Goat wines to try. I'll definitely be uncorking one soon. I poured this with the first course of our Thanksgiving feast that included a White Velvet Soup and a Duet of Salads . Now about the wine. They have been making this orange wine for about 5 years, when they realized that the skins helped  their natural fermentation finish. Yes, I did write "orange wine." It's not white, or even pink. It's not red. It's really orange. See. ...