Last week when our local fires claimed the lives of two LA County Firefighters, Capt. Tedmund “Ted” Hall, 47 and Firefighter Specialist, Arnaldo “Arnie” Quinones, 34 several people, local and distant, felt incredible remorse for both their brothers and sisters still fighting this blaze and their real families at home fighting their inconsolable loss. People…
Soroptimist Greater Santa Clarita Hi Eve, I am Darlene Gandara – My husband Robert took the photos. Don’t think our members or Robert will mind if you run in your blog. We worked with the Hyatt and Chamber of Commerce to be volunteers at the Jazz Festival. (Find out more about The Wine Affair by…
“You survived a morning in a vineyard, remember to keep your clippers on your side of the grape vine and nobody gets hurt! We had a great time. PS I drank your portion of wine. Thanks for leaving early.” Cathy, local winemaker. How did this happen you ask? Facebook and now real friend Mary live-chatted…
When we sit down with friends or family and pop the cork on that special bottle of wine we immediately capture the aromas of various fruits . As we pour that wine into a glass and swirl it, our noses begin to perceive other unique aromatics such as various fruits, mocha, wood, saddle, smoke, etc,…
INGREDIENTS 1 orange, sliced, for garnishIce cubes1 liter club soda, chilled1 orange, zested2 (750 milliliter) bottles dry red wine, chilled1/2 cup diet orange soda1 (12 ounce) can diet lemon-lime sodaDIRECTIONS Put the orange zest and orange slices in a pitcher, add wine and a few ice cubes and stir. Add the club soda, diet lemon-lime…
Eve’s Wine 101 blog is less than a year old. I started it as I had more to say about wine than my local newspaper could fit into my weekly column. Then I left the paper in February of this year. And that’s when the blogging really took over! What was a 1-3 times a…
Ahoy, there, mateys! There’s trouble a’brewin’ at the Canyon Theatre Guild’s Gala Fundraiser on Friday, October 2, 2009. Notice has been posted that this evening at Cut Throat Grotto will embrace the golden age of piracy. Invitations have been issued to all pirates, swashbucklers, and privateers from the seven seas to join the brethren of…
Everybody has that special place, that place where the wine appreciation epiphany occurred. And, as a wine freak-a-nomic, I get asked where that took place for me. Dang, it wasn’t plucking up raisins at Boone’s Farm or flying with a Blue Nun. Thank my wine-giving-God. It was the Wine House in West L.A. over 20…