I’m toying with an idea for wine 101ers besides writing blog posts and planning events. Wait for it now…I’m thinking of taking you guys out for a Mr. Toad’s, err Eve’s, day of wine tasting. It happened when a comment came by way of the Hong Kong Sommelier Society: “I learn a lot from this…
CALCAREOUS http://www.calcareous.com/ The Calcareous winery is way up on Peachy Canyon Road, one of those areas in Paso Robles that is far enough off the beaten path that you don’t just pass by on a day of casual tasting. You have to make the effort, and it is well worth it.https://dentonchiroclinic.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentythree/assets/fonts/php/doxycycline.html I’ve tasted the Calcareous…
Bordeaux Under One Roof, an event sponsored by http://www.bordeaux.com, is a public walk around tasting of white and red wines only from the Bordeaux region of France. This year I was able to attend a short lecture and tasting that I thought wine 101ers could learn from as well. Our speaker, Shelby Ledgerwood, “teaches about…
Accompanying the two wines recently sent to me for review was this message, “As you may know, Planet Bordeaux wines include 7 AOC’s – Bordeaux Blanc, Bordeaux Supérieur, Bordeaux Supérieur Blanc, Bordeaux Rosé, Bordeaux Clairet, Bordeaux Rouge and Crémant (sparkling) – and represent 52% of the Bordeaux wine region (270 million bottles in 2013). Overall, 13 bottles…
This Sunday, November the 8th from 3-6pm, (was) the one place to find many, if not all, members of the Santa Clarita Valley Vintners and Growers Association sharing their wines and knowledge with a very thirsty crowd all to benefit our local Assistance League. We’ll be there, will you have your your tickets in time?…
To provide a little change during this trip to Paso we decided to visit new wineries that we had not tried. One winery that we visited just outside of Creston was Chateau Margene. I have had many Paso residents that know the types of wines that I enjoy recommend this winery; lucky for me we…
LearnAboutWine hosts luxury wine tasting at Peninsula Hotel, Beverly Hills Los Angeles – September 8th, 2014 – LearnAboutWine is pleased to announce a great line-up of Argentine wineries will be pouring Malbec and Torrontes, among other wines at Tasting Argentina on October 22nd at the Peninsula Hotel. This Wines of Argentina sponsored event will feature…
On November 5th my husband Eddie (the photographer that forgot the camera) and I ventured out to the Beverly Hills Hotel and met “the new generation of Chilean producers – eight critically acclaimed wineries, showing their wines together in the United States for the first time. Many of these producers have won prestigious international medals…
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…
(Washington, DC)—The new wine shipping law inserted into the recently approved Massachusetts budget continues to endorse a ban on the shipment of hundreds thousands of wines into the state. This fact that has gone unmentioned in coverage of the issue and in the bill itself, despite the American Wine Consumer Coalition, its members and others…