Category: Music
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Pike Road Wines: Celebrating Oregon’s Bounty
Willamette Valley is a beautiful place to grow grapes. Image vineyards overlooking hazelnut orchards, dairy farms, and wheat fields surrounded by trees. Here the spring is cool, seeing a slow unfurling of buds that leisurely blossom into grapes. This leisurely pace quickens as the seasons unfold and soon the vines vigorously expand through the trellis…
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Exploring Enchilada & #Wine Pairings with #WinePW
Our Wine Pairing Weekend group explores a wide variety of wine and food pairings each month. Sometimes we have general categories such as a spring wine and food pairing, other times we have more specific pairings to explore. In May 2015 our Cinco de Mayo theme had us pairing wine with Mexican cuisine. This year…
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Grgich Hills Estate: Crafting Iconic #Wine
What comes to mind when you think of the American dream? As an American I have always believed America is a country where any one can become who they want to be. It may not always be easy or cut and dry, but ultimately people in America can rise above poverty and difficult circumstance through…
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Make Mother’s Day Sparkle with Laurent Perrier Champagne
Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome Has many sonnets: so here now shall be One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome; Whose service is my special…
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Food and Wine Pairing: Anaba Turbine Red Rhône Blend
Spring is here and I have another great food and wine pairing for your spring enjoyment! I love drinking crisp white wines and roses in the spring, not because these wines are only to be enjoyed in spring, but rather because they pair so well with spring cuisine. However, do not neglect your reds! Here…
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Herzog #Wine Cellars: Battle of the Barrels
I am a huge wine geek! Show me soil samples and I am in heaven. Speak of choice in barrel size, length of aging, blending techniques, and I am endlessly fascinated. I know there are many wine geeks who read this blog. I also know I have a large audience who are not wine geeks.…
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In Praise of Disobedience: Domaine Du Tariquet
“Let us teach our children to disobey us!” ~ Michael Serres, philosopher We all grew up knowing rule breakers. Kids in school who would not sit still, be quiet, and follow the rules. Some of those rule breakers grew up to be Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Mark Zuckerberg to name a few.…
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Diving into Loire Valley #wine with #Winophiles: Anjou
Diversity is the spice of life! I love the fact that our world is filled with diversity in cultures, races, and religion. I embrace diverse styles of music, cuisine, sports, books, hobbies, etc. Imagine if everything were the same, one color of hair for all people, or height or beliefs, or feelings. Boring! I believe…
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A Delicious Surprise from Hawk & Horse Vineyards
Do you like surprises? I generally do not care much for them. I am a bit of a control freak and really like to know what is going on most of the time. However, I do not like to know about a gift before it is given to me. I prefer to be surprised. Sometimes…
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Springtime in Southern Rhône with #WinePW
Last October our French Winophiles group visited the Rhône Valley. At that time I wrote an extensive article called “Separation of Church and Wine?” highlight the history of the Rhône Valley and many of its wine production statistics. This month our Wine Pairing Weekend is revisiting the Rhône Valley, southern Rhône to be exact, by…
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