Ideal Bite

Cheese and Wine Shop

Water into Wine

04.13.2009

Submitted by dsimmons on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 11:00pm.

Chicago

The Bite:

Witness this miracle: Provenance cheese 'n' vino shops in Logan and Lincoln Square. Let 'em save you from frozen food with small-batch cheeses (psst: ask 'em for wine pairings), organic baguettes, and fresh-cut honeycomb, plus local picks like Heartland's free-range meats and Das's lemony Naughty Ginger lollies - all made with ingredients you can pronounce. Next Thursday: free Earth Day wine tasting with organic, bio-dy wines like the dry and citrusy Michel-Schlumberger's Pinot Blanc. Hallelujah.

Why Care?:

Buying locally made food means using less oil - a finite resource - to transport it.

To toast our Chicago Edition's first anniversary (aw), owner Tracy Kellner recommended the same vanilla-ish, bio-dy Graham Beck Brut bubbly that the Obamas drank on election night. Paired with Capriole Farm's rich Indiana-made Old Kentucky Tomme goat cheese = heaven.

Wanna Try:

Provenance Food and Wine; wine tasting, Apr. 23, 6-8 pm; 2312 W. Leland Ave. (773-784-2314). Logan Square location, 2528 N. California Ave. (773-384-0699). Graham Beck Gamekeepers Reserve South African Chenin Blanc, $15/bottle.

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Cocktail Fact

In 1867, archaeologists excavated a Roman sarcophagus that contained the world's oldest bottle of wine - dating from 325 AD.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 Chicago Biters serve locally produced cheese at their next dinner party, it'll have the same CO2-reducing and fuel-saving effect as taking 265 Hummers off the road for a year.

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