January 2013
Excitement Continues to Build for First Annual Sierra Pelona Valley Wine Festival
The enthusiasm and participation keeps growing for the The First Annual Sierra Pelona Valley Wine Festival slated for Saturday January 26, 2013 from 11a.m. to 4p.m. at Reyes Winery just 45 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. The festival will celebrate the recently established AVA, The Sierra Pelona Valley Appellation. Proceeds from the festival will…
Eve’s Four Bottle Post
If you send me wine I will taste it. If I don’t like it I won’t mention it as I know how much effort, talent and work goes into winemaking. Suffice it to say, I must have liked these because I did spend time evaluating the color, aromas and flavors: 2007 Vines on the…
Gregory Alonzo: Spirits from Finland and Homer Simpson?
Throughout my travels, I have stayed in some luxurious as well as unique hotels. By far one of my most interesting haunts is Helsinki’s Glo Hotel Art. Set in a 1900s Art Nouveau castle, and in the center of the city’s Design District, the interior of this colossal structure is no less imposing. The hotel’s…
Daily’s Frozen Lemonade
I made three complete turns around the display of Daily’s Frozen cocktails before finally picking one up. I figured it was research. All of the frozen pouch selections at my local Ralph’s, including Margarita, Strawberry Daiquiri, Pina Colada and Lemonade, were only made with wine and boasted (or tried to downplay?) that each 10 ounce…
Eve of Destruction Circa 2000: What Gifts They Remember
“Shouldn’t we spread it out a little? You know open up some of the gifts when they’re first received? You can’t even remember what I gave you for your own birthday last month. How can she get the most out of so many presents?” So states the wife from Dr. John Gray’s Venus. “She’ll be…