If you love wine, chances are you’ve bought a bottle for a special occasion, or bought a bottle to share with someone, or to mark an event, or maybe it’s just so beautiful that you save and save it and have a hard time opening it because it’s too “special”?
I know it’s true for me! Continue reading
February has been all about Santa Barbara County Wine Love!
As usual, on Tuesdays from 6-7pm PST I’ve been participating in Wine Studio, and this month, the theme was Santa Barbara Love and wow, did we feel it! And we’ll feel it even more Continue reading
Today’s quite the double whammy– there’s a full moon, the last full moon of winter, and it’s MARGARITA DAY! And that winning combination just might help you see that obscure figure we know and love “The Man In The Moon.” There’s even a song from the 20s that I grew up singing called “Me and the Man and the Moon” that includes these memorable lyrics:
“Just before I’m counting sheep
Through my window he comes to peep
And with each other we’re sympathizing”
I know I usually write mostly about wine, but I do love margaritas, especially ones made with fresh squeezed citrus, top shelf tequila, and an orange liqueur like Grand Marnier.
But I’ll be with Elaine Chukan Brown aka “Hawk Wakawaka” and Jeremy Parzen aka DoBianchi at Santa Barbara’s LES MARCHANDS WINE BAR & MERCHANT in the Funk Zone 131 Anacapa St., Suite B, Santa Barbara CA 93101 tasting FRANCIACORTA, an delightful sparkling wine from Italy. Continue reading
It’s a wine lovers holiday! Celebrate all things wine on National Drink Wine Day on Thurs. February 18, 2016!
In addition to Chinese New Year’s and Valentine’s Day’s fizzy fun, February offers football and federalists: the Super Bowl is held the first Sunday of the month and President’s Day is mid-month.
But this year Chinese New Year’s eve of the Year of the Monkey is on Super Bowl Sunday AND Valentine’s Day is on President’s Eve!
So why not celebrate them all at the same time tomorrow during SUPER BOWL SUNDAY with wine from the Federalist and fizz from Sophia and Diama?
Que Syrah Sue, Ima Zinner, and Marshall Money Bags put together the food and I chose the wines keeping in mind what people would enjoy for Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 7), Chinese New Year (Mon. Feb. 8) Valentine’s Day (Sun. Feb. 14), and President’s Day (Mon. Feb. 15):
10 Participating Wineries
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| Barr Estate Winery | Gustafson Family Vineyards |
PS I Love You’s signature February event “Dark & Delicious” is on the road!
So I must apologize for my absence here on Wine Predator. You see, I broke my wrist. My left wrist. At Thanksgiving. At a parking lot at Mammoth Mountain. I slipped on some black ice in my ski boots and went down HARD.
Which meant that during the final three weeks of the semester at Ventura College and three weeks of winter break I had a broken wrist.
Which meant that I couldn’t even open a bottle of wine. Unless it had a screwtop. And fortunately for me, I had a few from Tercero to enjoy, like this grenache on Dec. 21 for winter solstice:
Which meant that while I could lift a wine glass with my right arm, and get people to help with notes, and participate in plenty of twitter tastings, Continue reading
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