Tonight is wine club and this month we are tasting South American wines. One of the best parts about tonight is that the hostess has THE BIGGEST chick-lit book collection I’ve EVER seen! Oh Kate, I’m bringing my library book bag to check out some books. Tomorrow is yoga, a facial, probably the movies, and …
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Tonight is my wine club’s 4th Annual Holiday Extravaganza so I decided to look back to see what I had to say about the 2008 wines. NOTHING! I wrote nothing. How can this be? The last time I wrote about the December wines was in 2007, that night we compared expensive wines to the more …
[ Continue Reading... ]I’m in charge of wine club now, and part of being in charge of wine club is buying all of the wine when we have our big holiday splurge . However, this month’s schedule had us set up for a blind tasting, which meant that we’d all pool our money and the girl-in-charge (that’d be …
[ Continue Reading... ]Last night was wine club and we had fortified wines: sherry, port, Marsala, canasta, Madeira, and maybe another one. I don’t know. This is what I have to say about them: Fortified wines. I don’t get it. Better than weird and wacky wines by a long shot, but still. Belch. I mean yuck.
[ Continue Reading... ]In honor of tonight’s wine club in which the selected wine is beaujolais, I’m rerunning this PSA. Cheers! This is a Public Service Announcement to the World, from my sister-in-law Red, who is a french teacher at the French Immersion School. Beaujolais is a red wine from France that is a big deal in November <nod your head …
[ Continue Reading... ]From Food & Wine, Wine Guide 2008, pg 101-102: The background of Super-Tuscans is that the winemakers in Tuscany tinkered around Cabernet Sauvignon and winemaking techniques that weren’t traditional to the region. The wine that resulted was called Sassicaia and it quickly because a significant revolution in Italian winemaking. It was a hit internationally and was nicknamed …
[ Continue Reading... ]Tonight is wine club and the wine this month is Super Tuscans. These wines promise to be delicious! I’m really looking forward to tonight, and I’d have to say that the rest of the group is too as we have had 16 members say they are coming. Only two can’t make it, and a third …
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