Modern Spice
If you like Indian food, check out Monica Bhide's Modern Spice: Inspired Indian Flavors for the Contemporary Kitchen. Monica hosted a virtual potluck dinner on June 22, 2009, for which more than twenty bloggers from all over the world cooked recipes from her book, and yours truly did wine pairings. Check it out!
True/Slant
"...when I find a hip website that purports to give little tidbits about wine, food, tasting, the wine world, etc. all in bite sized portions, I sit up and take notice. And notice I took of Gretchen Roberts’ Vinobite." Read Mark Storer's full review.
The Wine Curmudgeon
"All of the people in the wine business who are much smarter than I am (and there are so many) tell me that millennials are going to reshape wine in the U.S. They won't care about scores, they will drink regional wine, and they want value. I love them already. ...the fine wine and food writer Gretchen Roberts has taken it one step further, with a blog called vinobite.com, aimed at millennials. Now, if I can only get Gretchen to write about Tennessee wine." Read more at The Wine Curmudgeon.Vinoverve.com
"Best of all? It is FREE! And how often can you say that in our modern world?" Read Gretchen Neuman's full reviewSveltegourmand.com
"Drink wine without blowing your diet? Believe it. Wine, like all alcohol, gets a bad rap as a fat trap. But Gretchen Roberts, wine writer and founder of Vinobite.com, argues that there’s plenty of room for vino in a healthy, waist-friendly diet." Read the interview at SvelteGourmand.com
The Village Voice
"Slashfood enlists the help of a master sommelier-in-training to suggest wine pairings for foods like KFC's dirty Double Down sandwich and those now-famous deep-fried butter balls from the Texas State Fair. For the Double Down, says Gretchen Roberts, who also writes the blog Vinobite: "Wine is good for the heart, so balance that baby out with a glass of refreshing and palate-cleansing Chablis or Sancerre." More at VillageVoice.com.
