Downtown Newhall is fast becoming an all-in-one destination for the Santa Clarita Valley. With a state of the art public library standing guard at the north end of Main Street and Newhall Refinery restaurant and Pulchella Winery tasting room near the southern end, along with everything else going on nearby and in-between, it is easy…
The Location of This Year’s #CocktailsOnTheRoof Pre-Party will be at The Oaks Grille Inside TPC Valencia! SANTA CLARITA VALLEY – On August 17 The Oaks Grille at TPC Valencia is welcoming guests for a mini Cocktails on the Roof Pre Party – with many of the same attractions that will be at the main event on…
One of the things that has intrigued me about wine tasting is calling up aromas for my tasting notes, for myself and for pals that are struggling. I first began honing these skills via seated tastings where there was an opportunity to reflect and take notes. Further honing came with Wine and Spirits Education Trust…
The WiSH Education Foundation is thrilled to announce that Cocktails on the Roof 2016 is gearing up for another great night on September 9, 2016! Come out for the COMPLETELY UNIQUE Santa Clarita experience hosted by Eve Bushman of Eve’s Wine 101 and Marlee Lauffer, President of the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Foundation. Your favorite…
At a recent Grape of the Night event, that a dozen or more friends attend under the tutelage of Eve’s Wine 101 staff writer Rusty Sly, the assigned varietal was one none of us was overly familiar with: Roussanne. Grape of the Night, for those of you new to Eve’s Wine 101, is an event…
It is hard to believe that it will soon be wine festival season. And, as we did last year, Eve’s Wine 101 is pleased to be helping Wine in the Pines (see our letter to wineries below – if you are a winery owner and are interested please check it out) to be held Saturday,…
In a land far, far away – well, actually, it’s just downtown Los Angeles – the classic award-winning French restaurant, Patina, knows the importance of having a sommelier on staff. Here, in Santa Clarita, two valleys away and with wine pursuits ranging from restaurants to wine bars, I have to wonder, why don’t we have…
More than once I’ve been asked to run a tasting group and have begged off for a couple of reasons: I don’t like groups run by self-professed experts – which I am not – and I had no extra time to plan and organize. Because of that I never really thought about how I would…
The blogosphere kind of blew up recently over a post by Ron Washam on his Hosemaster of Wine site: http://hosemasterofwine.blogspot.com/2015/05/karen-macneil-speaks-to-wine-bloggers.html Ron purports to have gotten a transcript of The Wine Bible’s author Karen MacNeil’s upcoming presentation at the Wine Blogger Conference. If you are familiar at all with Mr. Washam, you know that nothing and…
Our esteemed publisher Eve Bushman has had her articles in the Wine Dogs books as well as the sister Wine Cats publication. While I have provided editorial assistance to her on these projects, I have never attempted to write on this topic myself. So here I go, not for the Wine Dogs books but for…