Drinking Your Way to an Education
Not a bad road to self-actualization…drinking your way to a wine education! Here are some traditional and online courses to improve your wine knowledge.
Via MercuryNews.com
Not a bad road to self-actualization…drinking your way to a wine education! Here are some traditional and online courses to improve your wine knowledge.
Via MercuryNews.com
The high-end and famous French vodka label, Grey Goose in collaboration with the Swiss designer jewelry brand, Chopard has come up with a brilliantly designed new bottle for their clients without compromising on the quality. This is for the limited release magnum. Grey Goose is one of the most prestigious Vodka brands of the world…
Imagine a cafe with a 5,000-bottle, 20-ft. spiral wine tower. Sounds like a grape lover’s dream, doesn’t it? Seattle is now home to the third Puget Sound location of the Purple Cafe & Wine Bar, which opened in July on Fourth Avenue and University Street across from the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. My husband and I…
Ty Warner’s San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara is hosting two Secrets of the Grape six-course wine dinners this spring, featuring guest hosts from Far Niente and Sea Smoke Cellars wineries. Both dinners begin at 6:30 PM and are held in the San Ysidro Ranch Wine Cellar. Cost is $295 per person; dinner and one-night…
A blend of rare and vintage cognac, Courvoisier L’Esprit is rich and smoky liquor. Among the various vintages blended in it, some are from the age of Napoleon. This rare cognac is available in an amazing handcrafted crystal decanter to reveal its royalty and rich history. Perfect maturation has given a complex and rich taste…
Squaw Valley, which put itself on the international ski map by hosting the 1960 Winter Olympics, is going to the dogs. Big time. Next weekend, September 16 and 17, from 11am – 5pm, the Village at Squaw Valley will host the Third Annual Art Bark Festival with FREE admission as a benefit fund raiser for…
If you’re old enough to remember Richard Nixon saying, “Sock it to me!” on ABC-TV’s “Laugh-In”, you’ll get a kick out of this new line of sake products. Created by three middle-age “wine geeks” in the SF Bay Area, they wanted to ride the coattails of Japan’s rice wine with fruity, spice-flavored drinks. Introduced yesterday,…