Mary Ross
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Good Wine: Matching Alsatian cuisine with Pierre Sparr winesOct 20, 2015 5:00 am - As dining moves indoors, a meal's star attraction shifts from the surrounding backyard, deck or park to the food itself. To translate your standard dishes with internati...
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Good Wine: Rewriting the wine with food rule book for global cuisineSep 30, 2015 6:00 am - A few "Good Wine" readers will remember when dinner with wine meant French: French cuisine, prepared by French chefs served with French wine: "Oysters with Chablis, duck...
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A closer look at Terry Theise RieslingSep 02, 2015 6:00 am - The easiest way to purchase one of the finest Rieslings available in the U.S. is to ask your wine merchant for a Terry Theise Estate Selection. To be clear: this is not...
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Let Washington State Riesling be your go-to for any cuisineAug 19, 2015 6:00 am - It's not easy being prepared with a wine to suit any dish that Chicagoland's food scene can throw at us. Fruity red (such as a Barbera) is a must-have for spicy cuisine...
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Quality Malbec from Achaval-FerrerJul 29, 2015 6:13 am - Malbec is the stuff of wine legend: Once, the yeoman grape of southwest France; uniformly ripped from its roots in the 1950s with complaints of vineyard disease and susc...
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Sparkling wine for summertime dining or anytimeJul 15, 2015 6:00 am - Now that the U.S. imports the full range of international bubblies — from under-$10 crowd-pleasers to more than $50 prestige selections — your summertime choice for a co...
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Wine to pair with traditionelle familiale French cookingJun 03, 2015 6:00 am - In the U.S., French cuisine calls to mind the French chef, imperious in his starched uniform and tall white toque. But the real French chef is more Julia Child than Geor...
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Wine to pair with traditionelle familiale French cookingMay 12, 2015 1:00 am - This has been updated to include the Puligny-Montrachet from Burgundy, France as Ross' choice for paring with French traditional family meals. In the U.S., French c...
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Good wine: Warm up to light whites for warm weather sippingMay 05, 2015 11:00 pm - People ask me all the time, “What's your favorite wine?” I hesitate naming one wine, but my favorite style is clear: light, dry-ish and minerally whites. While others en...
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Good wine: Chicago couple making international winesApr 08, 2015 6:00 am - The barrel was enology's breakout technology circa 27 B.C., providing a sturdy container to transport wine throughout the known universe (i.e. the Roman Empire). Today, ...