If you have a Costco with a liquor store selling wine near you, it may be worth the membership! One can find some real treasures if you know what you are looking for. Even though my cellar is full, I always make an attempt to check out the wines when we are at Costco. A…
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We have been club members at Sequoia Grove in Rutherford for a couple of years. Within our most recent club shipment we received a 2010 Sequoia Grove Stage Coach Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. At first I was going to add the bottle to my cellar, but then I thought why not try a newly released Cabernet and see…
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I recently wrote and released a blog about a red wine from a winery where the label did not look right. After doing a bit of digging, I believe the fruit and location were not correct as I had suspected. It’s likely that a novice wine drinker would have never noticed. After posting the blog,…
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Chris was the top bidder for a South African wine tasting for ten at our house from the Alexandra house Hope Gala last March. We are not experienced with wines from that part of the world so I was looking forward to it. I was also a little apprehensive not knowing the wines but also…
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The other night Chris prepared a creamy curry chicken, asparagus and hash brown casserole with fresh Meyer lemon and herbs for dinner. She wanted to pair it with a white wine and asked me to grab a bottle. I had never paired a curry with a wine so I was up to the task. I…
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I hope you all had a very happy Easter. We spent our holiday celebrating that Saturday night along with our kids at our friends house. Jen had been fighting cervical cancer and are happy to say she was recently told that she is “golden” and cancer free! It was fun to see “the old Jen” back…
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I’m looking forward to our upcoming trip this summer from Portugal to Bordeaux. During the trip, we will visit two ports in northern Spain. I am not very familiar with Spanish wines so when a local wine shop offered a “Wines of Spain” tasting. I signed Chris and myself up. This tasting gave us the…
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I like old wines and Chris generally prefers young fruit forward styles of wine. My friend Dave likes the older ones too and we recently invited Dave and Heather over for dinner. Chris had prepared Jambalaya for dinner and I figured Dave thought an older wine would pair well with it. Had the Jambalaya been…
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The other day we attended an Olive Oil tasting at a shop in Maple Grove. I have to say it was very interesting and we learned a lot. I had no idea how many health and beauty benefits come from olive oil! One of the things I learned is that the olives are originally pressed at 55 degrees. …
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We hit our first 70 degree day on April 9th and all of the snow from a long winter was gone. We opened windows to let the fresh air in and it was wonderful hearing the Cardinals and Robins sing! Kids and adults were outside walking the streets with their dogs and it just felt…
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When Chris hosted my 50th birthday last November, the invitation stated that there was to be no gifts. Of course a number of my friends ignored her message and brought gifts anyways, which I did appreciate. For me, it was more important to share this major milestone in life with my friends and family. The night was…
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