Our first full day in Napa began earlier than the rest, as we had to head up to Yountville's V Marketplace to find our waiting trolley. The Napa Valley Wine Trolley has a motorized San Francisco trolley that takes guests on an open-air journey through the valley. While you can select the tour which visits four … Continue reading Napa: Day 2 Recap
Things have been pretty quiet on the blog front (not that I haven't been drinking wine over the past several weeks), as I've been working a bunch on my podcast and also got pretty busy with work and life, so apologies for my radio silence. But.... Drumroll, please.......It's official: I've been to Napa! For as … Continue reading Napa, How I Miss Thee
May the fourth be with you....ahem, I mean Happy International Sauvignon Blanc Day!! In honor of this special day, which falls on the first Friday of May each year (a big thank you to the New Zealand Wine website for the graphic above, I thought it was perfect timing to open up a sauvignon blanc, especially as … Continue reading Wine 19: Sauvignon Blanc
Tempranillo! One of Spain's native grapes, tempranillo is also more widely grown in Argentina, California, and Portugal (where it's used to make Port). I love drinking wines from outside the States. It gives me a sense of what that country is like, and what flavors thrive there. I don't recall what wine-related thing I was … Continue reading Wine 15: Tempranillo
A beautiful weeknight spent with some of my favorite ladies! Girls' wine night is something I always look forward to - not just because I get to try a few wines, but most importantly because I get to spend time with good friends. We gathered 6 girls together last Tuesday night to drink zinfandel - … Continue reading Wine 14: Zinfandel
What a conundrum...to feature a wine that's just a red blend (aside from the Bordeaux blend) or not? Well, one taste of this wine gave me the answer I needed: DO IT! It was years ago when I first heard about Conundrum wine, when I worked for a company who conducted market research on restaurant … Continue reading Wine 12: California Red Blend
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