The Spring 2010 Alternative Season!

Hold on to your wine glasses everyone because colorandaroma is going places where no wine magazine has ever gone before.
We will be elegantly blending wine, art, music and entertainment from March 20 through June 20, 2010!
Stay tuned for our special guest contributors…
Cheers,
colorandaroma

Grape Species: The Blending of Two Worlds

Grape Species:
The Blending of Two Worlds
By Brandon J. Beeson
The subjects of wine and Hollywood have been swirling around in my mind for some time now. My dilemma was how to mend the two topics in a way that’s never been done before – merge the best of two worlds. Through a couple of phone calls [...]

Party on a Dime: Fun, Frugal, and Fabulous

by Allison Robbins
What’s your fantasy of the perfect holiday party? Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Nobel laureate guests? Buff servants in harem pants serving exotic drinks? No matter how differently we see the particulars, there is a universal ideal to the dinner party fantasy: hosts and hostesses swirl at the center of the action, [...]

A Word about Our New Direction

First of all, I personally want to thank everyone for patiently awaiting the next phase of color and aroma. We are excited that color and aroma version 2.0 has evolved into a new wine experience that far surpasses its original print-only conception. Responding to new media demands and opportunities, we’ve incorporated the latest digital applications for [...]

Translate the Grape

When we attempt to put into words the sensations, aromas, flavors, and overall experience of wine, we’re often left struggling to find the right words, much like a traveler in a foreign land who doesn’t fluently speak the local language.  However, as anyone can tell you who has gone abroad with just a smattering of [...]

Once Upon a Wine: Baptism by Chenin

I wish I could say my journey to the vines began in Burgundy or the southern Rhône; an ecstatic stolen sip of Gigondas at thirteen that led upward and onward to palate greatness. Not so, friends and neighbors!  I was saved by a $9 bottle of California Chenin Blanc.
From whence I currently stand as sommelier [...]

Once Upon A Wine: The Rothschild Incident

One fine evening, as we were celebrating the sun’s magnificent colors silhouetting Catalina Island with a lovely California Cabernet Sauvignon, my husband looked at his glass and was reminded of something that happened years ago, before we were married. Tell me, I urged him, feeling it was a good night for a Wally tale. With [...]

Once Upon a Wine: Be the Man

by David Lee
The incident about to be described involves real people: a young man embarking on his initiation into the adult world of rated restaurants with actual wine lists and someone called a sommelier.
Once upon a time, in a restaurant not far away, a boy-man was about to make his maiden voyage upon one of [...]