The event below is the work of several people, including yours truly: WiSH Education Foundation board members Marlee Laufer, Amy Daniels and Gail Pinkser, Volunteer Coordinator Claudia Sheridan and Eve Wine 101 Consultant Michael Perlis. We hope that you can join us for a very special evening: Imagine entering the new jewel of Santa Clarita Valley…
“The weather outside is frightful, but inside it’s so delightful,” oops, that’s been done before. Speaking of having been done before, I was going to write an article on wine glasses. However, I defer to my friend, and colleague, Rusty Sly. He has a must read article in our archives entitled, “A Glass is a…
Russ Briley, a winemaker that I’ve enjoyed getting to know better over monthly lunches and wine events, recently told me that his 2010 Nuggucciet Cellars Pinot Noir – of which he has only 7 cases left of as I pen this intro – recently garnered a 91-point rating from The Pinot Report. (My own tasting…
Looking for a recipe that I could “assemble” in the morning and then enjoy smelling all day long…this chili seemed to fit the bill. Of course, being a true Chef 101er, I had no clue what a Chipotle pepper is any more than I knew what Adobo sauce tasted like, but I knew I could…
The bet was that if I could fit into my wedding gown twenty years from my “start” date Ed wouldn’t shoot me to avoid a costly divorce, he’d marry me a second time around. With my fifteen year anniversary looming this June, my subliminal weight loss tapes (borrowed from Newhall Library of course) shaved off…
From my WhiskyNotes (from Whisky Advocate magazine) newsletter, this looked uber-tasty: Servings: serves 4 Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time:20 minutes Ingredients 1-2 Porterhouse steaks salt and pepper cooking oil 2 tablespoons butter 8 ounces sliced mushrooms 1 onion, sliced 3/4 cup chicken broth 1 tablespoon grainy mustard 2 tablespoons bourbon Preparation Preheat oven to…
Saturday February 2 and Sunday February 3, 2013, 11am-4pm. Truffles and Toffee Event. We will have Vladimir Litt from Truffles and Toffee http://www.trufflesntoffee.com sampling and selling his delectable chocolates. At the same time we will have our Agua Dulce Delight and White Delight Ports available in gift baskets for Valentine’s Day with Reyes Winery Glasses….
Aren’t we all relieved that the Mayans weren’t predicting the end of the world??? Although, no one would have been stuck with the post Christmas bills from all of our holiday shopping. For me, I would have been very disappointed, as it would have kept me from being involved in the 2013 San Francisco Chronicle…
From one of my fave educational sources, Ian Blackburn of LearnAboutWine.com, I received an invitation to attend a VIP luncheon with 16 other vinophiles followed by a tasty tour of the STARS of Santa Barbara held in the beautiful Beverly Hills Peninsula Hotel. Winemaker Luncheon There were seventeen names on the guest list, four winemakers…