One more reason you want to attend this Thursday night’s “Pour Into Haiti” event at All Corked Up from 6-8pm: $5 Raffle from SCV Vintners and Growers Association Winner gets two “passes” to stomp grapes from 2010 harvest, participate in pressing and then bottling the wine. They will take home 6 bottles of ‘their’ wine…
An ExclusiveWine House EventSunday, January 24th, 20101:00 PM to 3:30 PM Only $59.00 Per Person!@ The Wine House(Tented Rooftop Parking Lot Eventwith Upstairs 2 Restaurant)2311 Cotner AveLos Angeles, CA 90064 The Wine House and the Napa Valley Vintners Association present an exceptional day with the winemakers, winery representatives, and/or winery owners for an exclusive and…
Think out of the Chinese Food Container with: New Moon Valencia’s Contemporary Chinese Food First Wine Pairing Dinner SANTA CLARITA, CA – 13 January 2010 – On Tuesday January 26th at 6:30pm New Moon Valencia will hold it’s first 5-courses 5-wines pairing dinner featuring Michael-David Family of Wines. Michael-David Family of Wines is well known…
Grocery Outlet is a grocery chain that gets overstocks, 2nds and things that don’t sell well. They sell these items at a discount. So I went to the wine department to see what I could find. Francis Ford Coppola has a line of wines called “Encyclopedia”. Reminds me of a pancake syrup bottle. I wonder…
Today’s recipe is from SCV Elite magazine (a new home for Eve’s Wine 101 column) http://www.scvelitemagazine.com Pizza DoughMakes enough for about 6 pizzas Sponge2 teaspoons dry yeast3/4 cup lukewarm water2/3 cup bread flour1/2 cup white wine,room temperature1/2 cup cold waterDry Ingredients4 cups unbleached white flour1/4 cup rye flour1 teaspoon salt1/3 cup olive oil To make…
Given the catastrophic devastation caused by this week’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti, Vino 100 Valencia will collect donations for CARE’s Haiti Relief Efforts beginning on Saturday, January 16 through the following Saturday, January 23 during normal business hours. Vino 100 is located at 28112 Newhall Ranch Road, Valencia, in the HighRidge Crossing Center at Copper…
All Corked Up hosts themed wine tastings most Wednesday nights, at a cost of $20 per person. I try to get to these tastings as often as possible, often picking ones that get me out of my comfort zone of Zinfandels and California Rhones. I had the pleasure of attending a tasting of Spanish wines…
Chatting with a friend about his upcoming trip to San Francisco, I found he didn’t know two things about the wharf side of town. 1. The sea lions have left. After years of barking at tourists, photo ops and being a general nuisance to the port they just picked up and left. No one knows…