Dear Wine Friends, Please join other avid wine lovers, as tasting guests or as esteemed wineries, at Wine in the Pines in Pine Mountain on July 8th. We have promoted and covered this event for years and are so happy to see its return! “Leave your troubles behind and travel to an oasis – only…
This past May I spent two weeks in Portugal, specifically Porto and Lisbon and the areas we could reach easily from there. I concentrated my drinking on the local wine, port and cocktails, and that’s what I’m sharing today in this article. I did quite a bit of social media while there, so some of…
Over the years in my career as a wine writer, and as a marketing consultant, with the help of my business partner Michael Perlis, to restaurants, bars and wineries, I’d like to believe I’ve built a reputation based on trust. (I know I’ve been told that I have, and have received awards and nominations based…
This past March I attended the Bar and Restaurant Expo in Las Vegas. As I have in the past, I wrote an article on all of our findings, and you can read that here on Eve’s Wine 101. As an addition to the article, I was given a few bottles of spirits for review, and…
Del Dotto Vineyards offers two different caves to tour in Napa Valley: the Historic and the Estate. The Historic was one of the first built in Napa, hand dug in 1885, and believed to create wines “more voluptuous and opulent than wines aged in modern facilities. With up to 45 different flavors of highly rated…
On a recent trip to Napa, and staying at the guesthouse of winery owner Suzanne Phifer Pavitt (http://www.phiferpavittwine.com/) along the Silverado Trail, I wondered how a small 300 case producing winery that stays away from retailers, restaurants and tasting rooms markets their 95 point scored wine. Through the web. I met Suzanne Phifer Pavitt at…
This time at the Universal Whisky Experience I met up with at least 40 whisky-loving friends and made a whole lot of new ones! From Scottish to Japanese to American distillers making all kinds of brown spirits, we were covered. Here’s a snapshot of the eleventh year of this stellar event: The website https://universalwhiskyexperience.com/ told…
It’s been some time since I’ve tried wines from Colorado, probably since I took my certified course as an American Wine Specialist® from the North American Sommelier Association (NASA) a few years back. So when I was offered the opportunity to taste wines from the label The Ordinary Fellow, hailing from Southwest Colorado, I thought,…
The term Eco-Friendly, in regards to wine, may be new to you – as a couple of the requirements were for me. I had the opportunity to taste three Sicilian wines in this category and before I received them I learned that “To be a part of this sustainability program, wineries must abide by 10…
We’ve covered the Bar and Restaurant Expo and the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas for a few years now. Before I retired Eve Bushman Consulting I sat in many of the classes to keep up with the latest in the industry and share those updates and ideas with clients. I learned a lot, and…