Wine and Fire – probably one of the best wine tasting events. Terry and I went with four of our friends, Jim and Pat Hansen and Diane and Allen Eggers, to Lompoc for the Grand Tasting at Wine and Fire in August. (Here’s some of us there.) I’ve never been to Wine and Fire before,…
Most of the time people buy tickets for a charitable event it’s because they not only want to support the charity, the event itself is very appealing. With Sunset in the Vineyard, hosted by our Assistance League of Santa Clarita, wine is offered from mostly local non-commercial wineries. It’s always so much fun that usually,…
According to Greek Mythology, it was the God of pleasure and wine, Dionysus himself who first brought grape vines to Sicily. As we all know, there is always some basis to both legend and folklore. Archeological evidence places Mycenaean traders, as early as 1500 BCE, cultivating grapes on Sicily’s Aeolian Islands. By the 8th century…
The Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital Guild invites the community to “Clink! A Unique Beer Tasting Experience” on Thursday, October 24, 2013. The mid-week fundraiser will be held at Wolf Creek Brewery’s new tasting room and brewing facility in the Mann Biomedical Park in the Valencia Industrial Center. Held from 6:00pm until 9:00pm, the event…
Of course, if you think about it, there is only one person that owns one wine bar that has had ten annual Halloween parties and ten annual Holiday Tasting events: Guy Lelarge and Valencia Wine Company. Read on to see what is new and what will, and never should, change at the VWC. First up…
I took a very informative class led by Sake Samurai Timothy Sullivan just before a large Discover Sake LA tasting event recently. Sullivan promised to give us the strong points of selling and enjoying Sake in stores and restaurants, and how to make it more understandable to the consumer and profitable for the sellers. Sullivan’s…
Autumn on the island of Malta is gloriously met by the Quormi Festival. This two day event is a celebration of the local wines. Held on the streets of Quormi and is hosted by St. George’s Parish Church … Wait just a minute! Malta? Wine? Malta as in the “Maltese Falcon?” You bet. Wine production…
Locals from the Santa Clarita Valley, and some from out of the area, got to enjoy a great selection of wines produced by some small artisan winemakers, most of which you’d have a hard time finding in retail shops. Represented at the event were wines from: B & P Winery Cantara Cellars Estrella Creek Gagnon…
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“I created this recipe for August 2013 Ladies Night Out. When we were creating the labels for this new wine; I kept thinking what I could pair and create with this fabulous wine. It has aromas of mocha, plums and a hint of anise. After the wine had time to breathe, I started to get…