Wine of the Week

Wine of the Week

What: 2010 Regis Minet Pouilly Fume “Vieilles Vignes”

Info: The minute you taste this terrific Pouilly Fume from Regis Minet, you’ll want oysters. Not just a half dozen but at least a couple dozen, chilled and naked. Minet’s old-vine Sauvignon Blanc picks up a stony minerality and bracing acidity that would be perfect with most things from the raw bar. You can taste lime and grapefruit too in this intense, nervous white. It’s also a fine value for a wine of this quality.

Region: Loire Valley

Price: From $18 to $23

Style: Lively

What it goes with: Oysters and clams on the half shell, crab, seafood paella.

Fun flavor facts from McCormick

Sales of spices, herbs and other flavorings during the holiday season outpace the rest of the year. McCormick is sharing the following fun flavor facts for Thanksgiving.

Americans purchase more than 10.5 million ounces of cinnamon — that’s enough to make 337 million servings of flavored sweet potatoes.

Consumers buy more than 46 million ounces of garlic, which is enough to flavor nearly 2 billion cups of mashed potatoes.

Dinner hosts across the country buy nearly 3 million ounces of poultry seasoning, which is enough to make more than 209 million servings of stuffing.

More than 2 million ounces of sage are sold, which is enough to feed 24 million people their fill of sage-rubbed turkey at their holiday dinners.

Consumers purchase more than 21 million ounces of black pepper — enough to help flavor 2.5 billion servings of turkey.