Food and Wine Pairing with gorgonzola
Find the best food and wine pairings with gorgonzola as ingredients.
Blue or blue-veined cheeses are made from cow's, sheep's or goat's milk. They have this "marbled" aspect because of the development of Penicillium roqueforti or glaucum. There are two categories of blue cheese: strong blue cheeses like Roquefort and mild blue cheeses like Gorgonzola. Some have obtained the PDO designation. They are produced in the same way as the others. The only differentiation is during the coagulation process, they are sown with a microscopic fungus. It is this fungus that produces the bluish moulds that can be seen on the cheese, and which gives it its marbled appearance.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in Strasbourg have backed amendments to a range of recommendations put forward by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA), which included a proposal for health warnings on wine and drinks labels. BECA’s report, ‘Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer’, included several measures designed to reduce harmful alcohol use by at least 10% by 2025. Signed by French oncologist and politician Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, it is part of ...
Our feet crunched through layers of dry oak leaves as we climbed a pebbly path towards the vineyards behind the farmhouse. Roots go deep here. Not just the tall oaks and squat vines, but families too. I walked the vineyards at Mas de Libian with Hélène Thibon, but it was her father Jean-Pierre that greeted me when I arrived. Hélène’s sister Catherine was out front with Bambi the horse, ploughing the sandier plots. Later, we tasted in the winery with Hélène’s son Aurélien. Three generations of a ...
There has been buyer and trade enthusiasm for California’s 2018-vintage releases, yet there is still a sense of the region finding its way on the international fine wine market. Releases of top Cabernet Sauvignon and ‘Bordeaux blend’ wines from the 2018 vintage have added some spark to the California sector of the market this year. ‘We’re seeing much stronger demand for blue-chip 2018s than we did for the 2017s,’ said Ryan Woodhouse, domestic wine buyer for K&L Wine Merchants in the US. Scar ...