December 28th, 2011
Here at The Oyster Guide we decided to ring in the holidays with a wine tasting, pairing six different whites from three different countries with half a dozen different oysters. There were a few duds and a few standouts. The picks of the litter: Screamingly salty Marin Miyagis (from I Love Blue Sea) with a […]
December 21st, 2010
One of the best ways on the planet to discover great oyster wines is to step into Joe Beef, in Montreal’s Little Burgundy neighborhood, order a dozen or two oysters from whatever is in (there will be two or three kinds, all superfresh, generally from the Canadian Maritimes and even from Europe, which you can’t […]
December 16th, 2010
Ask any sommelier to recommend a wine with your oysters and he’s probably going to give you a fruity West Coast Sauvignon Blanc or a steely Sancerre or Muscadet. The conventional wisdom says that an oyster wine should have a knife-edged acidity to cut through the lingering sea mist of the oyster. And the […]
December 8th, 2010
It had been at least a year since I’d last had a chance to taste Hog Islands, California’s premier oyster, so I was quite happy to remedy that this week in a debaucherous tasting of several dozen Hogs and nine, yes, NINE different wines. Hog Island Oyster Farm is a little piece of paradise right […]
May 17th, 2009
My apologies to certain larger and better-known oyster festivals (names withheld; you know who you are), because I must hereby proclaim that you just got SCHOOLED in the art of the oyster festival by Boston’s B&G Oysters, which put on one hell of a show on May 4 to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the […]
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