Wine and Jazz Spring Fling

Guy Lelarge, and your friends at Valencia Wine Company, are welcoming spring in a whole new way: they’ve just announced their first-ever mid-year over-the-top wine tasting event for the afternoon of Sunday April 27. Starting at 2pm guests will have a ticketless tasting of several hand-picked wines, beginning with Champagne Nicolas Feuillate D’luscious (a Demi…

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Vintage Beacon: Giggles and Bubbles

 I’ve been thinking about POP Champagne bar in Pasadena for a few months because…well…we don’t have a Champagne bar in Santa Clarita yet. With dozens of Champagnes, by the flight, glass and bottle, also doing the same for sparkling wines, fortified wines, pink wines, vintage champagnes and regular wines…I figured that I would get over…

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Vintage Beacon 3/09, The Signal 3/02: Wine, and Junk Food, and Neighbors

Were there really men over forty-years-old dancing in my family room to Eraserhead?  (Or was it Tortoise Head or maybe even the more discerning, Porpoise Head?)  Eddie’e CD collection from the eighties strewn across every available counter top?  Middle-aged women discussing random acts of body piercing in my kitchen?  An impromptu lecture on getting really…

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