It’s tough not to judge people based on what wine they order….sounds terrible, yes, but it’s true. Let me explain. This week’s article was prompted by another article, on what bartenders think of your drink orders: http://matadornetwork.com/nights/bartenders-actually-think-wine-order/ However, instead of explaining things, the article took a tongue-in-cheek approach about if you order a certain kind…
Threat or opportunity for producers? Changes in the Earth’s climate will bring about changes in the taste and production of wines with some calling it a ‘grape-ocalypse’ as traditional growing areas are lost, it’s been predicted. Whether global warming is man-made or a natural phenomenon or a combination of the two, vine growers are already…
Now and then I actually write about wine. Well, take that back, I go to a blind Syrah tasting, hosted by my friends in the Santa Clarita Vintners and Grower’s Association, ask them to take down notes and send them to me. So this really is a wine review column, but not just from a…
The Original Wine of the Month Club® Offers a One-Stop Wine Shoppe Featuring Popular Holiday Varietals Paired with Delectable Delights From Eve: I drove to Wine of the Month club’s Monrovia office, met with owner Paul Kalemkiarian, Jr. and did a fun video with him about a year ago. There are good reasons that this…
COMSTOCK WINES http://comstockwines.com/ One of the many benefits of spending a day visiting wineries with Martinelli Winery wine educator Rick Fraga is that conversations with personnel from other wineries inevitably turn to business topics, especially, in this case, harvest. [Okay, they also talk about parties, but that’s a story for another day.] By all accounts…
“I met you on Facebook Day One I think and couldn’t believe you came to my home for a church fundraiser, albeit a single malt Scotch tasting, without ever having met. Since then I have enjoyed meeting with you, and your husband John Dickey, at numerous “wine-y” adventures. We’re both wine bloggers passionate about the…
Judy Penman, former to you but current for me, Woman of the Year for Santa Clarita, invited me to a recent Circle of Hope fundraiser at Vino 100 last weekend. Judy always greets me with a big smile and open arms (this time she handed me her homemade pomegranate jam that I’m re-gifting in hubby’s…
Oh, that elusive reference wine drinkers make to “terroir” sets my wine 101 readers to wonder…what the heck is this person trying to say with that one word? Short answer: Everything that went into getting that grape to become that wine. According to the Oxford Dictionary, terroir is “The complete natural environment in which a…
My husband Eddie and I spending a day wine tasting in Santa Clarita (SCV) is not news. But wine tasting at two different vineyards within ten minutes of our house in SCV is. Chris and Jeannie Carpenter of Newhall have a cellar I have long coveted. Free standing and temperature controlled, with an attached sitting…