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The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Whirlwind Trip to Italy Part 1
If the upcoming week held the promise of a three day concert in one of your favorite cities, say Austin, TX, featuring some of your favorite artists of the past 40 years or so, including say Iggy and the Stooges, ...
Seghesio: Still a Family Winery
It was raining when I arrived at the vast Seghesio Family Vineyards' facilities for a harvest time tour. Unlike Texas that would have welcomed it after a drought that wrought mass brush fires searing a swath through the Lone Star ...
Hospice du Rhône to Celebrate 20 Years in 2012!
It's a wine event for Lovers of Rhône wines! This year Hospice du Rhône will mark two decades of celebrating everything Rhône at an annual Spring event in Paso Robles, California, scheduled for April 26-28, 2012. The world's largest celebration ...
Reality: The Myth. On Super Bowls and Santorini
While I am serving snacks during half-time of the Super Bowl, I am forced to watch a 53-year old Madonna lip-syncing her greatest hits. Not forced as in anyone is making me do it -- but more in the way ...
It’s TasteLive! Tuesday: Small Lot California Cabernet Sauvignons
The Detroit Lions are 5-0! To help celebrate another BIG WIN, we're joining the TasteLive! panel to taste some Big Red Wines! After a late Summer hiatus, TasteLive! Tuesdays are back! Join us and this week's wine-loving panel at 8 p.m. ...
East Bound & Down, in Charlottesville for WBC11
Yesterday we left the sweltering heat of Houston in the morning, grabbed breakfast at the airport (never a good idea) and headed east to join our friends at the fourth annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference. Although we had a "direct ...
Celebrate Sauvignon Blanc Day!
Joe likes to tell people that he rescued me from becoming a Cat Lady. You know the stereotype: the over-40 single woman whose constant companions are an every-increasing number of cats. She may just leave food out on the ...
Hanging in the Balance with The Lady Chablis
It's funny how the mind works. How it can go from point A to point B to point C in what appears to be perfectly logical succession -- at least to the mind in question. I was listening to an ...
7 Things You Might Not Know…
My favorite beer wench, in fact, The Beer Wench, tagged me in her latest post, "7 Things You Might Not Know About The Wench." Although you might not know all seven of the "things" she lists, I actually knew quite ...
Romance, Hearts & Wine: Advice for Men on Valentine’s Day
We women love romance, I don't care what protestations we might make. So when someone asks, what is your first romantic memory involving wine, I can point to it most unequivocally, and tell you that it happened when the only ...
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