TEMECULA, CA — Ponte Winery invites the community to lend a helping hand this summer to the children of Oak Grove, a 24-hour residential abuse recovery center for children ranging in age from 6 to 18 years old. On August 21st and August 22nd, Ponte associates, Wine Club members and friends will be heading to…
These are just some of the beautiful people that came out in force last Thursday night to support our local Betty Ferguson Foundation at a fundraiser held a Vino 100 Valencia. Feel free to “tag” them in your comments as I was way too busy having fun to write down a thing. Wine and appetizers…
In an October 2004 Food and Wine Magazine, there was an article by Robert Parker called, “Parker Predicts the Future.” Robert Parker stated, “I believe wines bottled with corks will be in the minority by 2015…More and more state-of-the-art wineries are moving to screw caps for wines that need to be consumed within 3 to…
Wally’s Central Coast Wine & Food Celebration by Michael Perlis When Michael Bonaccorsi passed away, his death rocked the close knit Southern California wine community. Not only was he just the twentieth American to be awarded the Master Sommelier Diploma, and was Sommelier at the original Spago Restaurant, and then the Beverly Hills location, but…
These are MY photos from Wally’s Central Coast Wine & Food Celebration benefiting the Michael Bonaccorsi Scholarship Fund. Taken with my handy dandy iPhone. But…as I was drinking and eating it appears that I entrusted MICHAEL to take the wine photos. I gotta make note of that next time…you know…to tell him.
The Rhone Rangers ride into Los Angeles for our annual trade & consumer tasting on Sunday, August 9, 2009. Please join us for an afternoon of tasting of over 150 Rhone Rangers wines, paired with antipasto appetizers by Food Fetish, at our newest venue, Pier 59 Studios West in Santa Monica. Pier 59 Studios West…
I posted a link to Rusty’s column below regarding proper wine glass use on, you guessed it, Facebook. Here are the very latest results: Do you like the right wine glass with your wine or would anything do? Comment · Like/UnlikeYou like this. (That’s Facebook talk for, liking something, duh.) Jenelle H.you have to use…
Fellow Wine Connoisseurs, Most of you that have read my articles realize that I am a technical person. My studies of wines include the wines but expands out to the processes used in wine making. I have even tried to pass on information about the chemistry of wine. This article is about a very memorable…
Okay, so our new law, that restaurants have until 2011 to comply with, forces us to be cognisant of the number of calories we are faced with before ordering. But nowhere do I see that the caloric counts of our favorite libations have to torture/tempt us as well: http://www.cspinet.org/new/200809301.html We were at BJ’s in Valencia…
Eve, I wanted to write and let you know how excited we are to be Santa Clarita Valley’s official first commercial winery. As of about two weeks ago, we were cleared from the state and federal government as a recognized bonded commercial winery. This means the paper work and permits are over and the fun…