*Disclaimer: I received this as a sample from Lange Twins Winery I love Viognier. LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! I’m always so excited to get Viognier in the mail, something a little bit different than the standard Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio that people tend to send me. I recently reviewed and liked the [...]
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I recently found a butcher near our house and I am SO excited. I really missed having someone to order meat from and to cut what I want exactly like I want it to be cut. So I stopped by the butcher and picked up a couple fresh duck breasts. YUM! Matt played chef for [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Don Sebastiani & Sons. An entire line of wines name “The Crusher” showed up on my doorstep the other day. The premise behind the wines is a low cost good value line that you can drink every day. I have the whole line… Cabernet Sauvignon, the [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Mill Creek Winery. Tonight I felt like a spicy white wine. Our weather is hot hot hot! And white wine is just the ticket for nights like tonight. I picked the 2007 Mill Creek Winery Gewurztraminer out of the basement to sip after dinner. We had [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Artisan Family of Wines “Red red wine you make me feel so fine….You keep me rocking all of the time…” I don’t know why that popped into my head as I wrote this post, but it did. Now it can be stuck in your head too! [...]
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The Wine Blogger Conference is 28 days away! 28 days! Less than a month! Who is excited???? I AM! (Ya know, in case you couldn’t tell…) I love getting together with my fellow wine blog authors, shooting the breeze, drinking some good wine, hosting anti-conferences (if you ask me nicely, I’ll tell you about this [...]
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Now here’s a grape I don’t see a lot of as a stand alone wine. I see a lot of it blended in small amounts into other wines, but rarely do I get one labeled as Mourvedre. I love it though, and tend to squeal with excitement when I see it on a winery’s tasting [...]
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I’ll see everyone in CA in 29 days! Everyone including the 11 scholarship winners we were able to fund through the Wine Blogger Conference Scholarship Fund thanks to generous donations from companies like Hello Vino! Without their support, we would not have been able to get all these great wine blog authors to the WBC [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Artisan Family of Wines Recently, Jeff Miller of Artisan Family of Wines contacted me about sampling some of his wines. Artisan Family is currently producing 3 labels, Sly Dog Cellars, Seven Artisans, and Red Cote. Jeff and his wife own a small vineyard in Napa and [...]
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30 Days until the Wine Blogger Conference! Wahoo! If you didn’t get to sign up for this year, MAKE SURE TO REGISTER FIRST THING next year! Don’t say I didn’t warn you…the conference size increased by 75 participants this year and yet there is still a waiting list. That’s why I registered the day the [...]
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