Joe Becerra

Garden tomato season is peaking. What to do with all the tomatoes that are ready at once? Slice them or dice them and prepare these great dishes. Fresh Salsa: Whip up a batch of fresh salsa with tomatoes, onions, cilantro, lime juice, and chili peppers. Serve it with tortilla chips or as a topping for grilled meats and fish.

Vintage Wine Tasting Club member, Joe Fama, is a huge fan of Rosé wines. Joe says now is the best time of the year to enjoy Rosé wines. Joe recently hosted a luncheon for the Vintage Wine Tasting Club and organized a blind tasting of seven Rosé wines. The Rosé wines were from California wine regions and all made from different varieties of grapes and blends. Here are the seven wines we blind tasted in the order of how we scored them, top to bottom.

One white from Italy, one red from Spain that are very delicious and worthy of a purchase. Soave wines are excellent-tasting white wines. Soave had lived in the shadow of wines in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At that time, the Soave wines came in 1.5 liters, and were flavorless and unpleasant to drink. Things have changed dramatically. Soave whites are now delicious and very much worth trying.