It was midway through the 2012 Holiday Season as I write this blog. Our daughter Michelle (Shell) and Jake are over and she’s working on some items for WEBCO. Nick our oldest stopped by and had his mom cut his hair. He also decided to trim his beard and we were pleased as he looks…
We recently hosted Chris’ company Christmas~Holiday Party. For the first time in a few years we decided to take the team members and their significant other to a nice restaurant rather than do something less casual. We decided to take them to a nice Italian restaurant in Maple Grove. The dinner menu was planned a…
There have been a few decent to quality wines discovered at Trader Joes and Costco. A month or so I published a blog on the 2009 Kirkland Signature Series Cabernet Sauvignon. After drinking the Kirkland wine I made a recommendation to some of my friends and many of them wandered over to their local Costco…
It had been many months since we had seen our dear friends Robin and Deb (Ace). Last spring they purchased and replaced the trailer on their lake lot and also because new grand parents. So between the two “life” events and our busy schedule, things have been pretty busy and we just hadn’t gotten together.…
In October, we started a bi-monthly wine and appetizer gathering with some friends who also enjoy wine. Some of the people are new “Wine friends” to me and Chris. We love the fact there are people who live close and appreciate wine as we do. This particular gathering was at our house. Chris spent the…
We discovered the 2009 Red Wine Barrel Chaser last winter when we stopped at the Beau Vigne tasting room. If you are not familiar where their tasting room is located, they are in Yountville directly behind the Girard Tasting room near the north end of town. I am not sure what the relationship is with…
The first time we tried Renwood wines was during a wine dinner event at the Nectar wine bar and Bistro with some friends. As usual, Chef Kevin did a great job pairing the food and wine. I was quite surprised how good the Renwood Zinfandel’s tasted! We left the dinner and wine tasting around 10…
Chris had decided to make home made Spritz cookies with Michelle and Jake. She sent Michelle a text asking if they wanted to have pizza and wine and after make cookies. It did not take long for Shell to text back “Absolutely!” Before they came over we wanted to stop and visit them at their…
It was the day before Thanksgiving. We were fortunate to have our friend Dwayne offer to smoke our 22-pound turkey. We truly appreciated the offer as I can’t say how much stress that just eliminated the day of Thanksgiving. When he had mentioned it last Saturday I immediately said yes and asked when do we…
I recently celebrated my 49th birthday. It’s hard to image one more year and I hit the half a century mark! Time is flying by and I plan on the next fifty years being better than the first fifty. Earlier in the week Chris asked if I wanted to go out for dinner for my…
A week prior to Thanksgiving I read an article on serving Viognier with your Thanksgiving turkey. It got me thinking about what I wanted to serve for our meal. This Thanksgiving, all of our kids and their “significant” others were joining us for dinner at our home. Since most of the kids are at the…
Last summer, we met some nice people at the at the Fete de la Fleur event at Verite. Melinda recommended that we stop at the Tamber Bey tasting room in St Helena. We were driving right by on our way to San Jose that following day, so we decided to do a “Drive by” and…
