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Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring! 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...
Sharing is caring!Nothing screams Spanish more than Tapas, snack-sized plates are meant to share over good conversation and drinks. Tapas bars are how the Spaniards wind down time; and for lunch, Tapas run on a different, more flexible...
Sharing is caring!It has been 10 years since California has seen another drought this severe. Empty reservoirs and underground water threaten the livelihood of California agriculture; with this rate, the next best commodity to pour your life savings...
Sharing is caring! 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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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...
Sharing is caring!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,...
Sharing is caring!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...
