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Picnic Wine Pairing
Mom Logic | August 30th 2008 by MomLogic
Planning a picnic in the park this weekend? While the kiddos run in the grass, enjoy your labor-free weekend with a great glass of vino. Celebrations.com has tips to help you create a perfect day. read more
In the 'Olympic' Wine Challenge for 2008 Will Blue States or Red…
Wines for Halloween - How Scary is that? | August 28th 2008 by Julie Brosterman
Line up wines from BLUE states and RED states in an Olympic style competition and who would win? read more
Wine Tasting at Ridge Vineyards
Purple Liquid: a wine and food diary | August 26th 2008
After our visit to Cinnabar, we took the windy Monte Bello road up to Ridge Vineyards. This was a Saturday and the tasting room was very busy but luckily, we found a good spot at the bar and a friendly staff that knowledgeably answered all our questi read more
Once again researchers prove that people are dumb
Chimble’s Nightly Doodles | August 26th 2008 by Chimbles
Through many years we have been told about great artists like Picasso or Monet or countless other people who picked up a brush and painted something. To be honest I don’t really see whats so great about their paintings, sure times have changed read more
Video - Chardonnay Wine Tasting From That Food and Wine Show
Wine Basket Guide - Your friend for online wine related gift… | August 25th 2008 by WineBasketGuide.com
Here is another great wine tasting video from Larry at ThatFoodAndWineShow.com featuring a fruity chardonnay from Argentina. Larry also shares some tips about selecting the right glass for your wine and how to best preserve the wine for the few day read more
Video - Wine Tasting 33: 1998 Edwards & Chaffey Section 353 Shira…
Wine Basket Guide - Your friend for online wine related gift… | August 24th 2008 by WineBasketGuide.com
The Edwards & Chaffey Section 353 Shiraz is from the McLaren Vale in Australia. Along with Barossa Valley, the McLaren Vale is equally famous for their hot climate shiraz. On the nose, very ripe dark cherry with sweet orange peel plum but the alc read more
Miatas, Wine & Touring
3 AM Designs | August 24th 2008
It was a beautiful day, driving with the tops down on our Miatas. It was my first trip with the Triangle Miata Roadsters, a club my husband [I need a cute blogger name for him, but I haven't been able to think of one that isn't already taken, so RJ w read more
Wine & Grape Festivals in the Surroundings of Rome
Wine Tasting - Wine Tours in Italy | August 22nd 2008
By taking day trips from Rome late August, you can enjoy some wine festivals in the surroundings of the Eternal City. Last week-end of August, the town of Olevano Romano hosts the Cesanese Wine Feast, a wine festival dedicated to the “Cesanese read more
Teikoku Wrap-Up
1WineDude | August 22nd 2008 by Sephage
Teikoku Restaurant, sitting just outside Philadelphia, is fast becoming my favorite dining spot in the known Universe.I'm not a food reviewer, so I'm not going to try to do justice to the stellar dishes they whipped up for their last food & wine read more
Super Vintage Wine Weekend at the Hotel Marqués de Riscal in Spa…
*wood | August 21st 2008 by Thomas
The iconic Hotel Marqués de Riscal, a member of the Luxury Collection, is nestled in the “City of Wine.” Located in the heart of the Rioja wine region, this architectural landmark is hosting a Super Vintage Weekend in celebration of 150 years read more
2007 Cinnabar Rosé: a taste of Provence in the Santa Cruz Mounta…
Purple Liquid: a wine and food diary | August 20th 2008
Last weekend, with some good friends visiting from France, we decided to taste some local wines in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Our first stop was the roomy Cinnabar tasting room in the quaint village of Saratoga.One of the best wines we tasted was the read more
Things to do in Vermont - August 22-24
Travel-Vermont.net | August 20th 2008 by Christine
Interesting events - art, music, gastronomy, sports - this week-end in Vermont. Wine tasting, 100-mile biking ride, concert at President Coolidge House, Festival of the Arts and more. read more
Hic....
Well Done Fillet | August 18th 2008 by Manuel
My boss, The Glorious Leader, seems to think it's okay to get his waiters half tanked and then send them out to work. I think he is recording us for one of those funniest home video type shite programmes. Either that or he has badly estimated our cap read more
A Series of Wine Thoughts From My Time in Minnesota
Catavino.net | August 18th 2008
Ok, jetlag is done, culture shock is mitigated, and my life is starting to get back to its crazy usual self. I’ve inoculated my system with some fresh Iberian wines and assorted tapas. So what happened in Minnesota you may ask? Well a lot. One read more
Napa Valley Romantic Getaway Vacation Tips and Ideas
Traveling Mamas | August 18th 2008 by Beth
The Traveling Mamas were asked a good question following the article Napa Valley, the Perfect Romantic Getaway Spot in California. Ed wrote, “Hi! I am thinking about a long weekend in late September with my girlfriend. I have been to the Napa/S read more
The Rock & Roll Tasting
recommend | August 18th 2008
This is a Part 2 feature from my Thu. feature of the Hip Tastes wine tasting event. So Friday nite we trekked to the Mission and checked out the "Rock and Roll tasting" hosted by Courtney Cochran of Hip Tastes. The vino was flowing, Rock n' Roll spin read more
How Not to Taste Wine.
Catatonic Kid: A Mind Boiling Over | August 15th 2008 by Catatonic Kid
And now for something completely different… The way people describe wine has always been just a tad on the screamingly hilarious side to me. The whole process of it tends to be funny. OK, so picture it:- The house sommelier at Hetero. Converts read more
Tobin James: Local Boy Makes Good Wine
My Wine Education | August 14th 2008 by Michelle Lentz
Back in May, Kevin and I popped open a bottle of the 2005 Tobin James Dreamcatcher Muscat. We enjoyed it - I can't find my detailed notes, only scribbles (I lost my wine notebook) - but it was light, refreshing,... read more
summer vacation in southwest France: Part I - gourmet experience…
Gourmet Traveller | August 11th 2008
It was the first time to go on holidays in a camper van. As a city girl, this was a very special experience to me, I haven’t seen other Chinese in the campsites other than me, they were mostly Dutch, French and English. I would not say th read more
Adventures of a Wine Taster
Nourish | August 9th 2008 by Marie
(From last year... )There is nothing like an MS gathering to depress the crap out of me.I have a business connection with a very, very nice man whose mother has MS. Earlier this summer, he asked me to join the fundraising committee for a large, swan read more
Calici di Stelle: Tasting Wine and Hoping Dreams Come True
Wine Tasting - Wine Tours in Italy | August 9th 2008
Italians celebrate the night of August 10, Feast of St. Lawrence, with wine tastings throughout the Peninsula. In what is also known as the “night of the shooting stars“, as people hope their wishes will come true, one of the major annua read more
Things to do in Vermont - August 8-10
Travel-Vermont.net | August 8th 2008 by Christine
Photo courtesy of Adam Frehm New this week! - 7th Annual Lake Champlain Bluegrass Festival - August 8-10, in Alburgh - If you like bluegrass music, this is your week-end. Pray for good weather so you can enjoy all the outdoors concerts. And if you ar read more
August Wine Events
1WineDude | August 8th 2008 by Sephage
It's that time of month again here at 1WineDude.com.That time when we hip you to some way cool events going on in the wine world (what were you thinking I was going to say?):1) First up is a local Philly-area shin-dig. Teikoku Restaurant will be hav read more
Summer Wine: Another Day in Wine Country
Palm Springs Savant: Rick Rockhill | August 8th 2008
Today is the last day of a week-long series on my trip to Northern California's wine country. We have been to Napa and Sonoma more times that i can count, but this trip was unique because we spent time exploring wine regions much further north of Son read more
An Afternoon of Wine Tasting
Palm Springs Savant: Rick Rockhill | August 7th 2008
You may recall that last weekend John and I were up in Northern California's wine country doing a bit of wine tasting. Today are some photos from our visit to the Zina Hyde Cunningham Winery, located in Boonville, in the Anderson Valley wine region. read more
My Last Glass of Italian Wine…
Consigli divini | August 7th 2008
(this is a follow-up from a previous post I wrote a few weeks’ ago…) My last glass of Italian wine shall be taken beside a beach. The sea will be wide and blue, waves flowing in and out gently. The waves are listening. The sand on which I sit wil read more
Would you pay ₤10,000 for a wine tour?
Consigli divini | August 5th 2008
Well, that’s what a top hotel in Rome is offering. Yes. The St Regis Grand hotel. Yes. ₤10,000. I had to blink a few times to make sure I wasn’t getting the zeros mixed up. The tour includes a helicopter ride to Bolgheri to explore the vineyard read more
Chicago Wedding Photographer: A Couple’s Guide to Selecting a W…
LIFESALARY.COM - ARTICLES CENTER | August 4th 2008 by JBiggs
Are you still hunting for a Chicago wedding photographer? Are you depending on a few local directories and some random Google searches? Searching for a Chicago wedding photographer? Tired of flipping through the Yellow Pages and calling random numb read more
A New Movie About Wine…
Consigli divini | August 3rd 2008
There’s a new film coming out very soon (Aug 6th) called Bottle Shock. Based on a true story, it’s about the lives of two men involved in the wine business striving to become successful at what they do. One is an ex real estate lawyer turned wine read more
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