I am drinking while writing, like Stephen King’s early years: scary but with spell check! Anyway, been contemplating the new “youth factor” of my Facebook Eve’s Wine 101 group that grows by over a dozen new members a day. They’re young. And extremely attractive. Drive motorcycles. Into beer and wine. Former bartenders. And for some…
Our parents had neighborhood bars. If you entered one the day you turned 21 your eyes would have had to adjust to the darkness and the clouds of stale cigarette smoke. One long row of swivel bar stools turned just enough to view neighbors on either side hunched over grimy glassware. Cracked red vinyl made…
When you marry a firefighter you learn that all that all of the “events” don’t actually occur when they are on a 24 hour shift. Valentines Day, birthdays, OTBN don’t take place when your loved one is blissfully laid back in a vinyl recliner in front of a 56 inch screen TV with nothing but…
I would bet that there has never been a post, on a blog or website, about…Google Adsense. Never mind that I now have carpal tunnel clicking on my own Google ads so that I can earn a buck. Never mind that they are tucked way down deep at the bottom of this page. What I…
And here is the report to prove it: The Santa Clarita Vintners and Growers Association held their first meeting of the new year at Ristorante Cavi on Thursday, February 12th. Twenty local growers and wine makers were in attendance all with their hand-crafted wines in “tote.” The excitement level was high as the group had…
We are lucky in Santa Clarita to be blessed with many sushi bars offering all forms of spicy rolls to match with hot sake in the winter; cold sake in the summer. But there is only one here that boasts a wine list with not only over a dozen Sakes, champagnes, dessert and port wines,…
Help! I have hundreds of readers that I currently send my weekly e-blasts to. I need to get more sophisticated and that means sending an e-newsletter instead. But I also want to keep it short, and most importantly, palatable. The first below (A) is what I sent this past week. The second (B) has some…
California Wineries we miss that went bust before the current recession: Ballard Canyon in Santa Ynez (Who remembers the Grape Stomp? That’s another blog post all by itself by “Buffy”, the name I used while wearing a crown of grape leaves and watching other’s whimsical attempts at stomping.) Cilurzo in Temecula (Cilurzo named wines after…
We can’t go out on this upcoming Valentine’s Day… and I expect a downward cast to all of your collective chins as you read this. My husband Eddie, not me thank God, can’t even have a nice wine that evening. He just re-entered “platoon” duty at a fire station in a town near you…I’ll reveal…
Dear Eve, Our concept is based on the idea that sparkling wine and Champagne can be enjoyed without having to feel like a wine expert. We wanted to share our passion for Champagne and sparkling wine with younger people, and introduce them into the world of wine. All three of us who started the business…
