Pretty much anyone who has known me for any amount of time knows this. I don’t like bugs, I don’t sleep outside, and I refuse to be too far away from a place with a shower and facilities. Perhaps it was Girl Scouts that did me in…I was always afraid of spiders, but one year [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Bin Ends Wine in order to participate in the Twitter Taste Live. And really, it’s all about the Attitude, right? Here we go again with another start to a great Twitter Taste Live. This time, we tasted through 6 bottles of wine from importer F. Wildman [...]
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We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, so if you’re here for your daily wine review/vineyard review, it’ll be back to fairly normal tomorrow. For now, I want to offer just a few thoughts on my last 5 days in California. As you may know, I headed out last Wednesday to attend the [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Germany. Who loves Riesling? ::points at self:: That’d be me! I’ve been drinking my fair share this summer. But I think I’d like some more. Like every night. Riesling makes a great before dinner sipper, and its nice acidity often [...]
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*Disclaimer: I reeived this wine as a sample from St. Supery Vineyards so I could participate in the St. Supery Twitter Taste Live. Cabernet. Yum. I’ve been really digging Cabernet Sauvignon lately. Really. Which is good, because on the Monday after the Wine Blogger Conference Thea and I will be filled with Cab after a [...]
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We had a busy day out hanging around Napa with Thea. We swung by GooseCross Cellars right after lunch at Judd’s Hill. Thea hadn’t been in a while, I hadn’t been ever, but we chat with the GooseCross people on Twitter once in a while, so we decided it would be a good stop. Sadly, [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Spy Valley Winery. Well, if you were sitting in my living room, it would be a bottle of the 2007 Spy Valley Gewurztraminer! This is the 4th in a series of wines I’ve sampled from the Spy Valley line, which arrived here about 3 week ago. [...]
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Maybe I’ve been to Sonoma on the wrong days or I go to places that rowdy tourists don’t frequent, but on my 3rd day ever spent in Napa, what struck me the most were the throngs of tourists. And the fact that they had clearly been tasting (drinking?) all day. Which made some of them [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from St. Supery Vineyards in order to participate in the St. Supery Twitter Taste Live. I must say, I really enjoy participating in the Twitter Taste Live events. It’s a lot of fun to see what other folks think in real time about the same wine. We [...]
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Hello all. Today I take off on an extremely early flight to San Francisco. I’m heading out to the Wine Blogger Conference again this year, but have lots planned before and after as well! My friend Russ, the Winehiker, is kindly fetching me from the airport and then he and I intend to take a [...]
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