Rosé for Turkey Day – Time to Rethink Pink with 3 delicious wines
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Sweet Bordeaux Wines and Pairings from Opposite sides of the Globe #Winophiles
Travel in a bottle to visit Chile and Celebrate Carménère Day with 2 Chilean Carménères!
Youngberg Hill – Reminiscing and Making New Memories with 2 Youngberg Hill Pinot Noirs
Nashdale Lane – Great People, a Rainbow of Wines and the Perfect Glamping Experience in the Orange Wine Region
Groth 2019 Estate White – This Beautiful Inaugural Vintage Kicks it off in Style
Swift – Delicious Traditional Method Sparkling Wines from Printhie and the High Altitude Vineyards in Orange Australia
L’Ecole No. 41 2017 Merlot with Dinner and a Unique Dessert
Champagne Day 2020 – The wonderful Holiday we all really needed! #champagneDay
It’s Champagne Day! If you are like me, this is a welcome respite from the universe for the moment. Find a bottle and celebrate! You realize, Champagne Day should be everyday. You don’t need a holiday to pop a bottle of bubbly from this esteemed...
Merlot from 2 big-name companies, that are worth finding for different reasons
It’s October and it’s Merlot Month. In conjunction with #MerlotMe, we received 7 samples of Merlot from California and Washington. We featured Merlots from Peju & LaZarre with our “Merlot from elegant to badass”, and we did a feature on Susie Selby and paired her...
Channeling Jura for a rooftop getaway with a bottle of Savagnin and friends #Winophiles
I had ordered my bottle of wine from the Jura a couple of months ago and forgotten about it. Only once before have I had a wine from this region. At the time we were investigating “Godforsaken Grapes” from France, which took me to the...
Celebrating Merlot month with a Selby Merlot from sonoma County
Selby Winery – 100% owned and operated by Susan Selby. Susie founded Selby Winery with her father Dr. David K. Selby in 1994. Her father was a world-renowned spine surgeon who traveled internationally and spent quite a bit of time in Europe where he fell...
Angullong in Millthorpe – Wine, Welcome to Country, Indigenous Dances and bush Tucka in Orange NSW
Last spring, we found ourselves in Australia for the Wine Media Conference held in the Hunter Valley. Well really, last fall for us in October, but it was spring in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. After the conference, we attended one of the sponsored...
Merlot from elegant to badass. Time to #MerlotMe with #WinePW
#MerlotMe…while this is my first year participating in this event with the writers at #WinePW, it is the sixth year for this event, where writer’s partner with Merlot producers to celebrate Merlot Month. The official celebration day is Saturday, October 10th. You will see pieces...
The Byng Street Boutique Hotel in Orange Australia – Treat yourself to Quiet Elegant Luxury
During our stay in Orange during our post-conference tour at the 2019 Wine Media Conference, Orange360 provided us with accommodations. Our second night in the region we stayed in the city of Orange and the beautiful Byng Steet Boutique Hotel. Orange Australia Orange is a...
Moldovan Wine – Moving forward while not losing track of the Authentic grapes of their past #WorldWineTravel
I’ll be honest, I’ve not had a wine from Moldova before. I’ve heard and read a bit about the country and its wines and when #WorldWineTravel had an opportunity to collaborate with Wine of Moldova on their National Moldovan Wine Day, I was interested to...
Mount Etna – The Awesome Power of active volcanos, and yes red wine with fish #ItalianFWT
Mount Etna, volcanos, and wine. In October we pair wine and volcanos with the Italian Food Wine and Travel group. I’m partial to volcanos, as you will see, so diving into Italian volcanic wine was an exciting prospect. If you scroll to the bottom, you...
Oregon Wine & Biodynamics with Troon and Winderlea
A Côtes du Rhône from Franck Balthazar and a deconstructed pairing #Winophiles
At long last, we have a reprise from the 114 degree days. It is time to again venture outside and perhaps in the evenings, as the stars begin to dot the sky, don a sweater. It is time to dig back into red wines in...
Delle Venezie DOC – Italian Pinot Grigio raising the bar
The Delle Venezie DOC is a relatively new DOC, replacing the IGT that previously covered this region, specifically for Pinot Grigio. We will talk about the region, the process of becoming a DOC, the impact of the pandemic, their highly entertaining YouTube marketing campaign as...
Regenerative Agriculture at Tablas Creek – a meaningful way to farm #WinePW
It’s harvest and the group of writers at Wine Pairing Weekend (#WinePW) this month are led by Gwendolyn Alley of Wine Predator. She sent us an Invitation to re/consider Harvest and how global warming will change what we eat, drink and plant. The way I...
2 days in Orange? Too little time for this beautiful Australian wine region!
Climate Change, Finding Sustainable Italian Wines and Why you should Care #ItalianFWT
Climate change and sustainability. If you love wine, you really can’t be a climate change denier. I have spoken with too many winemakers who are seeing the changes in their vineyards. They watch bud break as well as harvests coming earlier. In some regions, they...
Mike Sauer and the stories of Washington’s Legendary Red Willow Vineyard
We were lucky enough to spend an evening with Jonathan and Mike Sauer at the iconic Red Willow Vineyard in Washington’s Yakima Valley. We met Jonathan, who took us on a tour of the vineyard. You can read that post here. Our final stop was...
Red Willow Vineyard in Washington’s Yakima Valley – an iconic vineyard and a trailblazer in Modern Washington Wine
The drive to Red Willow Vineyard, in Washington’s Yakima Valley, takes you to what feels like the end of the Universe. You head out on West Wapato Road and drive until it feels like Mt. Adams is right in front of you. Really the mountain...
