You must have noticed that getting a good bottle of wine is not easily these days. You have to know what you are buying, or else you will end up with the wrong bottle of wine. However, Virgin Wines have come up with a solution. They will help you choose the wine that will suit…
Wine Spectator just announced its top 10 wines of the year 2008, including the celebrated #1. They reviewed more than 19,500 wines from around the world in blind tastings. More than 5,300 of them earned outstanding ratings (90 points or higher on our 100-point scale).
Beginning Monday, November 10 and ending Saturday, November 15, my home town will host the first S.F. Wine Week. This six-day wine festival brings wine tasting from the country to an urban city setting.
Let’s say you’re about to order wine in a restaurant or buy a bottle at a store. You faintly remember a review you’d read about this Pinot Noir vs. “that one” or the aromas of blackberry with hints of raisin and spices on a Sangiovese. But you don’t have time to run to your computer…
Wine lovers will soon be cracking open bottles of the 2008 Beaujolais. But in Texas, they’ll be doing one better. Dallas will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the country’s biggest Beaujolais Wine Festival at the World Trade Center on Friday, Nov. 21. With the theme of France Meets Texas : Celebrate the Harvest, the…
I’ve put an awful lot of wine in my body. I just learned that putting it on my body can be just as wonderful. The vinotherapy massage at the new Glade Spring Spa (http://www.suncadiaresort.com/vacation-spa-resorts.php) in the Suncadia resort community 80 miles east of Seattle uses Chardonnay-infused oil that soothes away all the kinks and knots…
Get your Claret and carnival glass all in the same place: Vintage Vine LLC in tiny Roslyn, Washington. The combination wine and antique shop opened in March in the little town west of Seattle that portrayed remote Cicely, Alaska, in the television show “Northern Exposure.” The town of Roslyn and the Vintage Vine shop are…
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Vinos de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal winery in Rioja, Spain a super vinatge weekend is being hosted by The Luxury Collection and Christie’s auction house. The weekends highlights will be a gala dinner and live charity auction, conducted by Christie’s, featuring wines and exclusive Luxury Collection…
Think of Kansas and what comes to mind? Dorothy, Toto and a wicked witch? Sunflowers? Corn? How about wine? Yes, wine, wineries and vineyards. Who knew Kansas is home to 15 wineries producing more than 50,000 gallons of wine? One of the newest Sunflower State wineries, established in 2004 and producing its first bottlings this…
If you’re looking for a place that sells some top notch wine & liquor, while offering the kind of personal service that is rather rare these days…look no further than Aligra Wine & Spirits. This fall they are also offering a luxurious trip to Chile & Argentina. 1. What interested you in having your own…
I was tasting some dessert wine last weekend in Sonoma at Viansa Winery, which is a gorgeous setting reminiscent of Tuscany. Anyway, I saw several people walking to the register with these flat bubble-wrap thingies, which turns out to be called WineSkin. When you slip your bottle of wine into one, it protects it from…
Many years ago when I first went “wine-tasting” in the old farming/lumber area of Woodinville, there was a choice of going to Chateau Ste. Michelle, or Columbia Winery…the end. Now, there are over 45 wineries in the area, as well as some really incredible restaurants and inns, which makes Woodinville well worth an overnight. (Since…