HB&B Blog — Rose wine

Wine & Food Killers: Summer Tomato and Nectarine Confetti Salad and Christina Rosé 2022

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Wine & Food Killers: Summer Tomato and Nectarine Confetti Salad and Christina Rosé 2022

I am a creature of habit. When July comes, I know it’s time to eat as many tomatoes and peaches and nectarines as I can. The opposite of a squirrel hoarding acorns for winter, I bring home bushels to devour as quickly as possible, savouring the short-lived bounty before it disappears again. Maybe that’s why I keep making tomato salads – like last year’s, accompanied by fig-leaf-wrapped goat cheese, or one from years past with strawberries and mojama. Then there were those in our cookbook: a caprese salad with burrata; nectarine and panzanella. But this one, which feels like a synthesis...

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Wine & Food Killers: Rigatoni with Carrot and Saffron Cream Sauce and Ovum Big Salt Orange Rosé

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Wine & Food Killers: Rigatoni with Carrot and Saffron Cream Sauce and Ovum Big Salt Orange Rosé

It feels fitting that Ovum Big Salt Orange Rosé’s colour is best described as “sunset”. After months of blaze and heat, we are undeniably at summer’s end, all that heat and light softening into cool shadow. I like the soft melancholy of this transitional time, the drought now followed by drizzle and thunder. It helps that Big Salt Orange Rosé reminds me of the last beach trip of the season: saline, as the name suggests, and overripe, summer elegy on its nose. Its Alsatian makeup (by way of Oregon) – Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Muscat — comes across all grapefruit and...

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Wine & Food Killers: Feta and Herb Borek with Fennel Salad and Matthias Warnung Basis Nobody Rosé

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Wine & Food Killers: Feta and Herb Borek with Fennel Salad and Matthias Warnung Basis Nobody Rosé

Seasonal transitions are my favourite time of year, and I love it as spring slowly and inexorably flows like warm syrup into the humid and fecund days of June. The still-cool nights are punctuated by washes of sun, and everywhere I go I’m overwhelmed by musky elderflowers and the pollen that collects in the back of my throat. All I want to eat is dribbling peaches over the sink and buy punnets of cherries to pick at, but seasonally I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s just that when summer arrives, I just want to unhinge my jaw and take it...

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Wine & Food Killers: Peruvian-Spiced Salmon with Green Sauce and Tomato Salad and Offbeat Wines Watchtower 2020

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Wine & Food Killers: Peruvian-Spiced Salmon with Green Sauce and Tomato Salad and Offbeat Wines Watchtower 2020

I love the food cravings that sneakily overtake you – the ones that crawl out of your subconscious unbidden. Most mysterious are the sudden desires for dishes that you haven’t thought about for years. All it takes is a minor change in temperament, a flicker of childhood memory or a phantom scent on the breeze, and that long-ago slice of cheesecake or baked pasta dish or pumpkin curry is conjured up once again. That’s how this recipe came to be. It’s been more than a decade since I last ate Peruvian roast chicken. As a university student in New York...

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Wine & Food Killers: Warm Spiced Tomatoes and Broad Bean Salad with Andrea Occhipinti Alea Rosa Rosato 2019

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Wine & Food Killers: Warm Spiced Tomatoes and Broad Bean Salad with Andrea Occhipinti Alea Rosa Rosato 2019

We've entered the time of year when turning on the oven feels like death; when the heat makes any kitchen project that takes more than 30 minutes unbearable. Right now, a juicy wedge of watermelon could very well count as dinner, with or without the accompanying feta and mint. For those lucky enough to have gardens, they're likely spilling over with gluts of late-summer vegetables. That bounty is both a blessing and a curse. If you find yourself with an excess of tomatoes this year, and have made all the caprese salads and soups and pasta sauces you can stand,...

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