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For your next blast: Boom Boom Syrah

May 15, 12 For your next blast: Boom Boom Syrah

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It’s Syrahs like this that gives the Aussies serious competition for the casual red wine of choice. With a good price and easy-to-swallow character, Charles Smith Wines’ “Boom Boom” is always a popular choice for quick meals with friends. And that’s just the way Charles Smith wants it.  Following true to their motto,...

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Recipe: Costantino’s Pasta Salad

May 10, 12 Recipe: Costantino’s Pasta Salad

Posted by in Featured, Products & Gadgets, Recipes

Local resident Christopher Costantino recently added three new spice blends to his line of gourmet food products – Costantino’s Kitchen. You may remember our write-up about his Grandma Angie’s Tomato Basil Italian Pasta Sauce and garlic oils here. The new spice blends include: The Tuscan Steak Rub – described as “A perfect...

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Recap: Distrito’s Catena Winery Dinner

May 08, 12 Recap: Distrito’s Catena Winery Dinner

Posted by in Featured, Restaurants, Scottsdale

April 25th, The Saguaro’s Distrito held a winemaker dinner featuring Catena Winery from Mendoza. The evening began in the restaurant’s private dining room, which opens up to the patio for al fresco dining. Tables were set elegantly, each with a lone cactus as its centerpiece and take-home info about the winery. Wine glasses and...

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Arizona Stronghold Centennial White: A blend to celebrate Arizona

May 07, 12 Arizona Stronghold Centennial White: A blend to celebrate Arizona

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If you’re searching out a wine to go with that seafood spread, it’s hard to beat our own Arizona blends. Of course, just to make things interesting, Arizona’s white blends not only jump all over our state’s map, but also all over the taste chart. Their bouquets can be one or a combination of citrusy, flowery, bready, stony,...

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Piqued by the ‘Peaks’

May 02, 12 Piqued by the ‘Peaks’

Posted by in Featured, Opinion, Scottsdale

With the recent news that restaurant chain Twin Peaks is set to open three more Valley locations, I thought I might take a guess at where the new locations could go: Gilbert – Instead of 19 and 20 year college girls, the ‘Real Housewives of Gilbert’ can take center stage as the Lumber-Jills. Cen-Pho/So-Pho Corridor...

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Pull a reverse: Spanish wine of the Priorat region

May 01, 12 Pull a reverse: Spanish wine of the Priorat region

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Located in a Spanish mountainous area of Catalonia, west of Barcelona, the official growing region of “Priorat” is the result of tenacious innovation in winemaking.  Thanks to a never-give-up attitude, wines from this ancient growing region are now world class.  Given the work that went into registering this appellation as an...

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