Eve’s Wine 101ers — check out this press release for a great new restaurant in Burbank. We visited it recently to check it out for ourselves. You’ll have to wait until next week for the details but if you want to know the answer to the burning question after my last article — Can Michael…
Besides the SCV Wine Calendar for events, we also have compiled a list of local Happy Hours taken from website pages or via email. Some of our hyperlinks go straight to the Happy Hour menus! (We have not visited all of these, so this is not a list of Eve Wine 101 recommended Happy Hours,…
If you only know hot Sake, like it or not, there’s so much more out there in the Japanese world of rice wines. You are cheating your palate if you stopped at the one being offered at your corner sushi bar. I learned this years ago and have since made it a point to peruse…
I do like cold Sake, especially this time of year. However, I rarely get a sake menu offered here in a Santa Clarita restaurant other than at a sushi bar. Often, unless I’m in an over-chilled restaurant, I turn to Rose, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Champagne; or white Rhone varietals such as Viognier, Roussanne…
One of the first wine fests I attended as press was the LA Wine Fest. Founder Joel Fisher was very kind in extending passes and personally welcoming us at the event. Since then I’ve covered the 500+ winery/brew/spirit event in photos, as my hands are always too full with a wine glass and program to…
A reader has asked us to write up a comprehensive list of SCV Happy Hours. I had tried to include them in my SCV Wine Calendar at one point, however, it was too large a list and it made the calendar too difficult to read. So, I asked around, surfed the Internet and found…
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…
In this, the eighth annual LA WineFest to hit the historical Raleigh Studios the first weekend in June, my husband had this comment, “Joel’s doing a great job of introducing wine to the hipsters.” The “Joel” is Dr. Joel Fisher, the founder of the event, and he continues to find new wines and spirits every…
To honor the 2013 Year of the Snake, Bombay Sapphire East has created a complex and seductively beguiling cocktail as the signature cocktail to celebrate this year’s LuckyRice festivities, called The Bombay Sapphire EAST Snake In The Glass (photo below). As the Chinese tradition goes, a Sake or Shochu is mixed first with various herbs…
Valencia Wine Company (VWC) hit its tenth year in business this year, and with it we’ve seen their location on Town Center as the continual bright light among other storefronts that have come and gone. And while the changing landscape could have daunted any business owner, Guy Lelarge just keeps on going. His most recent…