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TO O RDER M ORE F EATURED W INES CALL 1-800-823-5527 TODAY! Volume 15 The Number 14 ©Vinesse Wine Club 2007 SKU 10940 Gra evine THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTERp FOR VINESSEINESSE WINEINE CLUB MEMBERS GraT O N pevineV W C M Soup Up Your Wining and Dining With This Versatile, Dee-lish Recipe By Robert Johnson MARTIN’S he best recipes chicken broth; three-quarters T are versatile in teaspoon of salt; one-quarter JOURNAL terms of the type of teaspoon of ground nutmeg; five thin slices of peeled ginger root; wine you can serve often drive over to and two tablespoons of dry Sherry. I the neighborhood with them. Cut the squash in half lengthwise, Starbucks and pick up THE and discard the seeds and a Chai Tea Latte — The recipe I’ve selected membranes. Place the cut sides for this special Food down in a shallow baking dish, hot in the winter, iced FOOD Issue — Curried add water to a depth of one- in the summer. Butternut Squash Soup ISSUE quarter inch, and bake at 400 — tastes great degrees for 45 minutes I find that the tea is better on my with or until tender, and nerves than yet another jolt of everything then let cool. caffeine, and besides that, I just like from Riesling Spoon two cups of the flavor of the drink. to Cabernet squash into a food During the holiday season, I like to Sauvignon. How’s processor bowl, process for sip on a Spiced Wine Tea while that for versatility? 30 seconds, and set aside. relaxing at home — and it’s easy to Here are the Melt the margarine in a make. ingredients you’ll large saucepan over medium Take a quart of boiling water, pour need: one-and-a-half heat. Add the curry and it over six tea bags, cover, and let pounds of butternut cumin, and sauté for 30 seconds. steep for about five minutes. Then squash; one tablespoon of Add the apple, onion and garlic, remove the tea bags. margarine; two teaspoons and sauté for about five minutes. Meanwhile, cut four oranges in of curry powder; one Next, add the flour and tomato half, and push two cloves into each teaspoon of ground cumin; paste, stirring until blended. Add half slice. Combine those slices with one-and-a-half cups of the squash puree and yogurt, and one-and-a-half cups of light red Granny Smith apples, peeled stir well. Then gradually add the wine, a half-cup of granulated sugar, and coarsely chopped; one broth, salt, nutmeg and ginger a half-teaspoon of ground nutmeg cup of finely chopped onion; root, and bring to a boil while and one teaspoon of ground one large garlic clove, stirring constantly. cinnamon, and bring the mixture to minced; three Remove the soup from the a slow boil. Then remove it from the tablespoons of all-purpose heat, stir in the Sherry and heat and mix it with the hot tea. flour; three tablespoons of tomato discard the ginger root. Optional, but highly suggested: get paste; eight ounces of plain low-fat Then pop a cork and enjoy! a few logs burning in the fireplace. yogurt; two cans of low-sodium Read more by Johnson in “Editor’s Journal” on VinesseTODAY.com. 2 • The Grapevine • Visit vinesse.com OUR MISSION: To uncover and bring you wine gems from around the world, which you’re not likely to discover on your own, and which enhance your wine enjoyment. YOUR GRAPEVINE TEAM: love to cook with wine brown sugar, a quarter-tablespoon of Intrepid Wine Enthusiast, Chief I almost as much as I salt, two tablespoons of Worcestershire Taster and Winehound: love to drink wine. sauce, a cup of catsup, and a cup of Martin Stewart Zinfandel (red — not white!). Chief Operating Officer In a medium saucepan, sauté the (aka “The Buck Stops Here”): The latter is for pure pleasure, of onions until they’re soft. Then add all Lawrence D. Dutra course. But the former is very of the remaining ingredients and stir Editor: satisfying for me because it involves over medium heat until thickened. Robert Johnson creativity, attention to detail and using This will take about a half-hour, and Wine Steward: my hands. it’ll make about two cups of sauce. Katie Montgomery It also involves a little bit of The rest is up to you: Choose your The Grapevine is published by Vinesse, decision-making, because the typical favorite meat or fowl, and brush the 822 Hampshire Road, Suite E, Westlake recipe that calls for wine is non- meat with the sauce while barbecuing, Village, CA 91361; 1-800-823-5527. Copyright by Vinesse, LLC. Printed in USA. specific about the type of or pour the sauce over No responsibility is assumed for loss or wine to use. It will the fully-cooked meat at damage to unsolicited materials. indicate “white wine” or he type of the table. “red wine,” but what type T The wine to serve? The of white or red? It’s an wine you use same (red) Zin you used CHARTER MEMBER important decision in preparing the sauce. in a recipe BENEFITS: because it will absolutely Next, I’d like to share a The Grapevine Newsletter impact the flavor of the will absolutely recipe for a relish that dish. goes great with turkey, Premium wine selections at One thing I never do is impact the ham, pork roast or even members-only prices use “cooking wine.” In roasted chicken. This Wine tasting as a participant my personal opinion, dish’s flavor. Late Harvest Cranberry on VINESSE’s Gold Medal that’s nasty stuff — Relish has become a Award Panel sometimes bitter, and holiday tradition in the Free subscription to VINESSE’s almost always real salty. Better to go Montgomery household, and it’s really Cyber Circle Community with the “wrong” real wine than with easy to make. Members-only savings, cooking wine. You’ll need two cans of whole including Food & Wine I have the most fun with wine cranberry sauce, one can of crushed subscriptions, dining out, recipes that complement main dishes, pineapple and one cup of your favorite gourmet food and tickets to the rather than wine recipes that are main late harvest dessert wine. Personally, I hottest events dishes. I’ll share two of them with you prefer Late Harvest Riesling, but you Random giveaways of wine and this month — a Zinfandel Barbecue could also use Late Harvest accessories Sauce, and a Late Harvest Cranberry Gewurtztraminer or Late Harvest Wine Finders Reward — identify Relish. Chenin Blanc. a future wine selection and For the Zinfandel Sauce, you’ll need The preparation? 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