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Private Wine & Food Pairings with Screaming Eagle, Schrader and Domaine de Chevalier Bordeaux
November 2023, we had the pleasure to taste the 2019 Screaming Eagle (top flight) rated 100 points (See Event here) . Very excited to say the least but sadly it didn’t live up to expectation. We knew that...
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Newly renovated tasting room at Caymus Vineyards and Cellars – Napa Valley Wine Tasting
In the past few years, guests have been enjoying their tasting at Caymus Vineyards in a lush and enchanted garden (See Video) Beautifully manicured landscape certainly had helped enhance the tasting experience for all guests. Starting in 2023,...
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Raymond Vineyards and Winery – Napa Valley Wine Tasting
If lady Gaga has a wine tasting event, this would be it. Artsy, colorful and Red allover, a visit to Raymond Vineyards and Winery will have your senses tingled for more. It is certainly one of a kind,...
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Food & Wine Event at One Michelin Plumed Horse -Screaming Eagle, Scarecrow, 100 Acre, Chappellet Pritchard Hill , C. Cos d’Estournel, and Las Cases.
Springtime can’t seem to come fast enough, this year Winter overstayed its welcome with longer and colder days. And for that, we will keep more wines… This time we found ourselves back at the One Michelin restaurant Plumed...
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Winemaker’s Dinner at Sequoia Grove Winery Dec 2023
Incredible event put together by Sequoia Grove Winery. Imitate and elegant, guests are treated to various of SG impeccable line up of Cabernet Sauvignon, paired beautifully with lip-smacking good bites by in-house executive chef Britney. Limo service is...
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Trinchero Estate and Winery St. Helena Napa Valley Wine Travel
Menage a Trois, Sutter Home, Joel Gott and Napa Cellars, if these names sound familiar to you, it is because they are readily available at your local grocery stores. But did you know that these are all under...
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Sequoia Grove Winery, wine and food parings in Rutherford, Napa Valley Travel Tips
Why we found ourselves again at Sequoia Grove Winery? Because it is just that enjoyable each time. Executive Chef Britny did a wonderful job rotating her tasting menu to reflect the change in seasonal ingredients to showcase the...
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Chimney Rock Vineyards and Winery Tasting Napa Valley
From Silverado trail, approaching the heart of Stags Leap District, a white Church-like structure appearing from a distance, a Dutch Cape building surrounded by endless rows of grape vines. Welcome to Chimney Rock! Since 2004, Chimney Rock is...
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Rombauer Vineyard Wine Tasting Napa Valley California
Rombauer has won wine drinkers many times over with its signature California-style Chardonnay. Expressive notes of tropical and stone fruits, laced with bright acidity and just a touch of oak, all round of with rich, creamy and silk-like...
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Seven Apart, incredible wines to watch for
You couldn’t help it but appreciate the attention to details that went into building this winery. If that is any indication of quality and effort that went into crafting these wines, then I’ll be in for a treat....
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Food & Wine Pairings with Scarecrow, Abacus, Harland and Seven Apart
Incredible Tasting event featuring Scarecrow 2015 and 2019, along with Abacus XX, Harland the Maiden 2016 and Seven Apart 2019. Our event took place at the elegant Plumed Horse, a Michelin Restaurant tucked quietly along the Saratoga foothill....
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Round Pond Estate Wine Tasting Rutherford Napa Valley
If you are tired of over the top fruit bombs that tend to attract more tourists than wine lovers, head over to Round Pond Estate. Despite it being right in the heart of Rutherford Napa Valley, the tasting...
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Wine & Food Parings at Joseph Phelps Winery & Vineyard
If you are familiar with Napa Valley, the name Joseph Phelps (JP) shouldn’t sound out of place to you. Rooted deeply in the Napa Valley Viniculture, JP Winery has been around for decades and the past decade or...
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Not your typical Wine and Food pairings at Ashes and Diamonds Winery, Napa Valley
Ashes and Diamonds (AD) is “the new kid” on the block in the wine world in Napa Valley. Vintage decor, bright and very modern, from a distance, it looks nothing like a typical winery. Unpretentious and approachable. AD...
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Opus One love hate relationship
Napa Valley and Opus One No Wine region in the world has experienced such rapid growth than Napa Valley, California. In just a few decades, Napa Valley has gone through a complete transformation from inexpensive jug-wine to world...
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Spectacular Wines by Carter Cellars Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
too good that it attracts unwanted attention from Cartier -the high end jeweler giant.
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A must try Wine and Food pairing at Sequoia Grove in Napa Valley
If you are a wine & food lover, look nowhere else because we got a great recommendation that it hard to match. Welcome to Sequoia Grove Winery. For $125, you’ll be spoiled with a great line-up of the...
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Why we recommend a visit to Caymus Vineyards, Napa Valley…
Tucked away in the back road between Silverado Trail and Highway 29, you can’t help but feel at ease here at Caymus Vineyards tasting room. Guests will be tasting wine in an impeccable garden, yet so tranquil; soon...
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Industry Tasting at Elementary Cellars, Napa Valley California.
Elementary Cellars Volume I Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 Napa Valley Early in 2015, a gorgeous sun-blessed day in Napa Valley Wine country set up for some pleasurable wine tasting; quite a few outstanding wines on the list and Elementary...
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Zephaniah Farm Vineyard, Leesburg Virginia Wine Country.
Zephaniah vineyard locates in Leesburg, one of Virginia’s many viticulture areas. Loose-gravel windy road eventually leads to the vineyard and its historic tasting room, not too long ago it was a farmhouse. It couldn’t get any more personal...
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Palmaz Vineyards & Cave Winery Napa Valley, California
Palmaz Vineyards, this place is very new to Napa Valley but already making giant leap. Beautiful estate with an impressive cave winery. The entire production takes place inside a massive cave, 4-story high winery eliminates the use of...
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Planning a first trip to Napa Valley? Here are 5 Vineyards & Wineries to check out
In the last two decades, Napa Valley took the wine world by a storm securing its place among the top wine producing regions, not just in California but in the world. Napa Valley produces less than 5% of...
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French Laundry wine theft, is Neal Caffrey in town?
Image from www.usanetwork.com/whitecollar White Collar, a very popular TV show on USA network now is in its 5th and final season. The show surrounds a charming ex-conman -Neal Caffrey; in exchange for reduced sentence and freedom, Neal agrees...
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Vintage Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour raised $1000 at charity auction San Francisco Bay Area
The Wine Beaulieu Vineyard is no strange name to many wine drinkers, beginners or experienced alike. First founded in Napa Valley, almost a century later, BV offer a wide range of wines for pocket sizes. Beaulieu Vineyard –...
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The Iconic Opus One, a must-visit winery in the heart of Napa Valley
The History “Opus” is a Latin word meaning an artistic composition by a well-established artist. If the taste of a Napa Valley wine could be compared to the sound of a musical masterpiece, that wine would be Opus...
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Napa Valley’s Hendry Vineyards, a wonderful tasting lesson for wine lovers
Napa Valley Napa Valley boasts some of the very best vineyards and wineries not only in California but the world over. Rich soil and ideal climate spoil the vines, in turn they spoil wine lovers. Napa Valley is...
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Monterey and Carmel Valley, the hidden gems of California wine country
During my wine study and research prior to the exam, I spent much of my wine time in the Monterey County Appellation. Smaller operations and tasting rooms allowed me more chance to share and learn from the winemakers...
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Cancun, Mexico. Wine and Food Paradise
There is no where else like Las Vegas, when it comes to Wine and Food escape, you can’t help it but to imagine the indulgence of luxury dinning and surreal night-life that Las Vegas has to offer. From...
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Beaver Creek Vineyards Fairytale Napa Valley and Lake County 2008
Tasted: Dec 2013 Beaver Creek offers this vintage from two different vineyards, one from Napa Valley and one from Lake County; both are Bordeaux blends with a slight difference. From Napa Valley vineyard, 41% Merlot, 36% Zinfandel and...
What makes a wine expensive?… or really expensive?
You can find dozens of not hundreds of different wine labels in your local supermarket, their prices can vary from two-buck chuck to hundreds of dollars per bottle, some specialty store may carry wines that cost over $1000...
Sheldon Cooper’s guide to becoming a Wine Geek with these 33 very common Wine terms, jargon and lingos
To describe tasting, taste and feel of wine To talk about Region & Wine Making
Napa Valley Paulliac? tastes and feels just like a First Growth Bordeaux
If you take a very short detour from Silverado Trail, you’ll find Goosecross Winery. If you prefer a more cozy place to sip on your wine, away from the hustling Highway 29, this is a must visit. Goosecross...
4 concepts of expert tasting and wine review
If you have read a wine review or two, notice how they all sound very similar? well! because almost always, they describe the 4 areas of taste in wine: sweet or dry, fruit or earth, light body or...
Easy way to identify flavors, aromas and bouquet in wine
Although they have been used interchangeably but there are actually differences between Aromas and Bouquet of Wine. Flavors in wines can be associated with fruits while their bouquet resembles more wood, spice and herb. These flavors and aromas...
Wines of Champagne, France
Geography & Climate Champagne is the most northerly wine region in France, about 90miles Northeast of Paris. The climate here is extreme; bone-chilling cold in winter with damaging frost but hot, humid in the summer. Once a seabed...
Understanding Wine Classification of Burgundy (Bourgogne) France
Unlike wines for Bordeaux, where each district such as St. Julien and Pauillac could have different regulation and exception to their overall Classification. Other than the confusion between village names and the names Grand Cru vineyard, Burgundy wine...
Classic pairings: Pulpo a’ feira with Albarino, Verdejo or even better with Rioja Joven
Seems like a foreign land, isolated from the rest of Spain, Galicia tucks away in the Northwest corner of Spain. With over 1000 miles of breath-taking coastline chiseled away in deep low valleys, in which water makes way...
Wines of Burgundy (Bourgognes), France
Bordeaux might rule the West of France with its Cabernet and Merlot blends but on the other side of the country, by the border of Italy lies another magnificent wine region, it’s intriguing, elegant, complex and definitely world-class,...
Wines of Bordeaux, France
Far to the west edging the Atlantic ocean lies one of the most important wine regions in the world, Bordeaux. The province is named after the port-city Bordeaux, and it is home to over 10.000 wine producers together...
Wines of Alsace, France
Geography & Climate Alsace is a thin strip of land running along the Vosges Mountain on the West and the Rhein River to the East. Only after Champagne, it is the second most northerly wine region in France...
