Wine, Wisdom & Chi Omega friends
Wine with friends. Sisters, actually! In college, I thought I would be a GDI, the abbreviation for those who opted out of the Greek life experience. As a theatre major, it didn’t seem like it would be my thing. I...
Discovering Vini di Valtellina – Chiavennasca – the Nebbiolo of the Alps
Discovering Vini di Valtellina – Chiavennasca – the Nebbiolo of the Alps Far in the north of Italy’s Lombardia region, tucked between the Rhaetian Alps of Switzerland and the Orobiche Alps in Italy, you find the east-west valley of Valtellina....
Discovering Wine Country Washington’s Yakima Valley and Corks vs. Screwcaps
Episode 4 of Discovering Wine Country On this episode of Discovering Wine Country, we head to the high desert of Washington’s Yakima Valley. We will discover the five nested AVAs of the Yakima Valley AVA and visit some vineyards, including...
Tempting Spoonfuls – Pairing single bites with glorious wines
Tempting Spoonfuls I love writing and creating. I’ve been writing about wine country, telling the stories of winemakers, creating pairings, and shooting photos for over 10 years now. After writing and creating for Crushed Grape Chronicles for so long, I...
Discover Santa Barbara County Wine – on Episode 3 of Discovering Wine Country
In this episode of Discovering Wine Country, we take you to the California Coast and Santa Barbara. While the beach and the city are beautiful, we will take you beyond to the wine county that sits a little further inland....
Discovering Wine Country – This is how the story begins
Discovering Wine Country – This is how the story begins Okay, perhaps it didn’t really start here. There is always something before right? Even the Big Bang…something had to cause the bang. We’ve all heard that there is nothing new...
Episode 6 – The Scenic Route Exploring Sonoma County Wine region
Sonoma This region unlike Napa, its neighbor to the east, does not have an overarching AVA. The landscape and climates are diverse across Sonoma County, allowing for a wide range of different styles and varieties of wine. There are 18...
Episode 4 – The Scenic Route Walla Walla & Caprio Cellars
Walla Walla Walla Walla sits in the South East of Washington. You have to mean to go there to get there. Luckily the easiest route is through the spectacular Columbia River Gorge. We ended our last episode with a bit...
Wine Gifting for the holidays – L’Ecole No. 41 and a bit of Walla Walla
Wine Gifting at the Holidays When you need to give a gift during the holidays, most especially when heading out to a gathering or party, wine is a great go-to. Sometimes you pick the bottle because you heard it was...
Celebrating Merlot Day with Silverado Vineyards 2018 Mt. George Merlot
We’ve been celebrating Merlot for the past month with #MerlotMe. Today is the culmination of the celebration, Merlot Day. We celebrate with the last of the sample bottles that arrived for our #MerlotMe tastings, a bottle of Silverado Vineyards 2018...
Washington Merlots from L’Ecole No. 41 paired with Fig and Shallot stuffed pork loin
Today we tie together two of our favorite things, Merlot and L’Ecole No. 41. It’s October, so that means #MerlotMe, where we celebrate this grape all month long. #MerlotMe In 2013 the Duckhorn family decided to launch a movement called...
The 2021 Wine Media Conference IRL (In Real Life)!
It had been a long time since we had traveled. I mean, this past year or so has been that way for most of us, right? We packed the car for 15 days on the road, complete with masks, hand...
Tempting Spoonfuls: Pairing single bites with glorious wines (On Sale Now on Amazon)!
Tempting Spoonfuls: Pairing single bites with glorious wines
Tempting Spoonfuls, Small bites with wines from around the globe. on sale now on Amazon
Tempting Spoonfuls - small bites paired with wines from around the globe
