Phylloxera – Want to sound smart? Throw out this tidbit I stole from class: The grape Phylloxera/aphid/louse succinctly took out all of France’s wine growing when they used our vine cuttings there in the 1850s. Our little bug, that our vines were resistant too, ate their way through French vines. They had to either rip…
Big news hit my inbox last week. Rumors of All Corked Up wine club members being shuffled over to Vino 100…prompted a whirlwind of rumors on my Facebook page when I posted the news. I contacted Lil Lepore, owner of Vino 100, and found out that… …There was an e-mail notification sent out by All…
Of course I didn’t NEED to take another wine appreciation class. The last class I took from sommelier DiMaggio Washington, the owner of The Cellar, was for my Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level Two. This was an excuse to drink, I mean, to have a refresher course. And, of course, I had all…