Natalie Maclean visits the blog

I was looking over the Blog today and kicking myself for being slow with the updates recently. We are going through home renovations and things have been a tad hectic so I haven‘t been too quick with the updates. There has also been a weekend or two where Mick and Amy were away so we had a dry weekend (yes, it does happen occasionally that we don’t have wine on weekend). So my apologies to my three or four readers out there…

Which brings to my next point – I noticed I had a couple of comments on one of the more recent Blog articles. I figured it was Mick putting in his two cents but I was only half right, one was Mick but the other was from Natalie Maclean -

Love your focus on food-and-wine pairing! I'd be interested in your thoughts on my interactive wine matcher on my site if you have a minute.

Cheers,

Natalie

www.nataliemaclean.com

Holy shit… someone is actually reading this blog! That means I’m now up to 5 readers. My curiosity was peaked so off to Natalie’s website to I went to try her interactive wine matcher.

Yikes, first thing I noticed on Natalie’s website is that she is a published wine author. The second thing I noticed was a nicely laid out professional website. I played around with the food and wine matcher on her site and liked it. It was easy to use and would be a great starting point for any pairing.

The wine matching was cool as you pick a food (ex. Beef), then you get more precise (ex. Steak, Grilled) and it comes back with a number of wines that will pair with the food. This is a nice little resource for whenever you are unsure of what to pair with something. I like that you can go the other way too and pick a wine and get a number dishes that will pair with it. I’ve added a link to Natalie’s website in the Internet links section, so take a minute to check out her fine site.

I was talking to Mick last night about Natalie visiting the blog and he laughed and said he knew exactly who she was as he read her book earlier in the year. He really enjoyed the book and said Natalie had different but very enjoyable writing style. He has promised to loan me the book so I will give it a read in the near future.

If there is anyone else perusing this pages of this blog, drop a comment or two, would love to hear from you.

Cheers!

Mark