The Roger Room Bartenders Serves Up Potions for Courtship and Romance THE ROGER ROOM, Los Angeles’ award winning mixology bar, presents five cocktails designed for romance on Valentine’s Day. Each cocktail will be served in a Loving Cup, a giant, footed glass with two of THE ROGER ROOM’s signature steel straws. Crafted for two with…
I wrote an article a couple of years ago, The Young Wine, to illustrate that a fresh-faced 21-year old nowadays has far more choices then we did a couple of decades ago, IMO (in my opinion), in alcoholic beverage choices. (But yet those choices don’t automatically translate to a developed palate.) In my youth I…
Earlier this year, in a vast hall in downtown LA called the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, the growers and vintners of the newly-designated Malibu AVA came together to fight for their futures. The County Board of Supervisors was voting to decide whether the Coastal Commission’s ruling that no new vineyards be planted or expanded…
What to do with left over Prime Rib? I Googled that question and got recipes for pasta and cheese steak sandwiches. Wasn’t really feeling it. Then I went to my kitchen cabinet looking for inspiration and found a giant jar of premade Williams Sonoma chili. I mentioned the idea of making Prime Rib Chili to…
Saturday, January 31st 2-5pm at The Museum of Flying at Santa Monica Airport, 3100 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405 The Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux (UGC) is visiting Los Angeles to promote the excellent soon-to-be-released 2012 vintage. The Union is an affiliation of the best Bordeaux producers from all of the major Bordeaux…
The 7th Annual Tour of Paso on March 21 benefits local cancer patients & their families Calling all cyclists – a Launch Party will be held on Thursday, Jan. 29 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Castoro Cellars, located at 1315 North Bethel Road just off Hwy 41 in Templeton, to kick off fundraising efforts for the…
NEW YORK –Vinexpo 2015, the world’s leading show for wine and spirits professionals, will roll out a number of firsts in Bordeaux during its next showcase (June 14-18). Chief among these is the designation of the U.S. as Vinexpo’s first-ever Country of Honor, putting American wineries front-and-center with an anticipated 50,000 professional visitors. In another…
It was outstanding! On Sunday January 18, for a brief 90 minutes, the worship space of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of SCV was turned into a den of chocolate scrumptiousness enjoyed by church members, guests, SCV Foodies, contestants and the community at large – just like last year’s successful Chili Cook Off. Both savory and…
As a follow up to Eve’s story about wine clubs, I thought I’d offer my two [or three] cents on the topic: First, to clarify, I don’t make much of a differentiation between winery wine clubs and wineries that allocate wine to the members of their mailing list. The main difference is that wine clubs…
