Our founding father’s certainly appreciated quality liquor. Most did not follow the colonial custom of drinking rum. Benjamin Franklin brewed beer. Thomas Jefferson was also a brewer and set up large vineyards at Monticello. George Washington had his own recipe for porter, a dark brown bitter beer brewed from malt that has been partly charred….
24th Annual Passport to Dry Creek Valley — A Modern Tradition with Century-Old Roots Saturday & Sunday, April 27-28, 2013 from 11am – 4:30pm Over 50 participating wineries throughout Dry Creek Valley and Healdsburg Featuring top-flight wine tasting, gourmet food, themed décor and live entertainment Fly Alaska Airlines into Santa Rosa and check a case…
Facebook friend Christine Pike teases her pals on Facebook with mouth-watering photos of dinners she whips up in her kitchen. Not a chef, but raised by a caterer, it seems Christine simply can’t help herself. Here is her latest complete with before and after pictures of her husband’s dinner plate: Seared lamb chops with home…
Don’t you just love it when you have an interest in something and out of the blue a great opportunity to learn and experience it just falls into your lap? I sure do and I had such an event happen just a couple weeks back. The interest??? California wines made from Italian grape varietals grown…
“I was totally dumbfounded by your call,” Elena Boiko, my longtime friend and fellow sommelier, smiled. “Gregory Alonzo willing to share his private bourbon stock with me?” she playfully teased. “I thought American men preferred to imbibe in bourbon and smoke cigars when they shared in man talk.” “Now when have you known me to…
The Earth Day Food & Wine Festival is known for its tantalizing array of locally sourced dishes and award-winning wine and they are raising the bar this year ready to showcase another Central Coast secret: that gluten-free can be just as robust and flavorful. There’s often quite a bit of communication at festivals between attendees…
The Vine 2 Wine Classic, the rebirth of the Santa Clarita Valley Wine Classic, and which combines the former Vine 2 Wine event, will be held on Saturday evening, August 17, from 6:30 — 10:00 p.m., in the City of Santa Clarita’s Activities Center, where it was held last year. The single admission price of…
From a Facebook friend: You may have to bump up the recipe cause I make it in small amounts, but here it is: Apple Peach Wine (but you can name it whatever you want) It’s actually very simple: Grind up 3 cups of apple without the pealing. 3 cups of peaches. 1 cup of Oregon…
Due to all the interest from our readers, we decided to conduct a tasting with corn based vodkas. Who would have thought that finding this style of spirit in Europe would be such a difficult task. My living room table had been set and everything was ready to go, with the exception of a most…
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