Tag Archives: Wine Tasting
Another Wine Blog's third First Friday event celebrated wines from the Pacific Northwest. Pairings for the Washington and Oregon wines included Puget Sound Smoked Salmon with Pancetta in aioli sauce, Washington State Honeycrisp Apples, and Bosc pears from Oregon. Various ...
AWB Launches First Fridays!
You may notice we haven't been posting that often lately, me especially. Partly because it's just been tough. We have all sorts of wine stories in the queue; trips to Portland, Carlton, Italy, ZinFest and tons of reviews that ...
Win Tickets to San Francisco Zinfandel Festival, Jan 31 – Feb 2
UPDATE: Friday, January 25 is the last day to enter to win tickets to the San Francisco Zinfandel Wine Festival. Make sure you enter to win a pair of tickets to wine tastings and food pairings at this awesome event ...
Wine Tasting Blind: The Label Project Contest
Part of any respectable sommelier program includes identification of wines through only the wine student's sensory perceptions. Be it the Court of Master Sommeliers, Institute of Masters of Wines or International Sommelier Guild, to name a few, the student learns ...
Wine Bloggers’ 5-Year Reunion: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Redux
Thoughts of attending a high school reunion lead to a barrage of emotional responses. From "I Can't Wait!" to "Not just no; but Hell, No!" and plenty in-between, a reunion is different things to different people. For one whom high school ...
She Said, He Said: Impressions of a Grand Wine Event
The more wine we drink, the more apt we are to forget what it is like to attend a wine event as simply a consumer. That is why we like to let others give their impressions to our readers as ...
Live Tasting: Join us for Kunde Live on June 7th!
Join us tomorrow evening (Thursday, June 7) as we experience three new wine releases from Kunde Family Estates. Beginning at 7:30 p.m. Houston time (8:30 Eastern, 5:30 Pacific) we will join fourth generation winegrowers Marcia and Jeff Kunde along with ...
Is Wine Breathing Bunk? Guest Post by Denman Moody
We first encountered Denman Moody, Jr. in 2009, at the inaugural Houston Wine Conference, where he, along with Guy Stout and Gary Vaynerchuk, was a featured speaker. Now, we often join him at winemaker dinners in Houston, sometimes with his ...
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 ...
Join us for a Sneak Peak of The Wineyard at Santa Rosa Vintners’ Square!
When I met Creative Furnace's Cailyn McCauley and Joel Quigley for dinner at Healdsburg's popular Spoon Bar during Sonoma Harvest Weekend, they were bursting with news about a future "base camp" for TasteLive! Now we can share the news with you! ...
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