Am I preaching to the choir when I advocate cooking with wine? Or is this something we would all like to be a little more confident in doing? For me, it’s something that I think I would like to do more often, but when it comes right down [...]
Vine is vut my Papa used to make in ze basement on ze farm. He harvested red currants and raspberries from his garden and transformed them into something decidedly unMennonite. I remember the huge fermenting vessel with its apparatus on top and how fascinated we three girls [...]
Oh snobby, snobby me. I chose the theme of ‘Pairing Wine and Cheese’ for my latest newsletter believing it would be an easy task to apply what I know about food and wine pairing to the art of pairing wine with cheese. How hard could it [...]
I'd say that two girls with guns wearing bikinis and boots could lead to trouble… maybe.
Some Young Punks have got people talking.
If you dig into the archives of what I was playing around with wine-wise last summer, you will see the good times that were had with a bottle of Shiraz Mataro [...]
all it needs is a squeeze of lemon and some Sauvignon Blanc
Oh yeah… bring on the SUN! People, we have waited for a little longer than usual for this warmness so do not let me hear any of you complaining. I know, some of you have to work out in it and being [...]
Surprisingly, the world’s sixth largest wine producer and one of the oldest wine regions on earth still maintains a fairly low profile. It’s time to put on our comfortable shoes and take up our corkscrews to go exploring below the equator again, for there are plenty of rare [...]
One of our team members suggested a great concept for a Thursday Night Swirl wine tasting that was perfect during the Winter Olympics weeks: several of our staff would choose a wine they liked to present to the Swirl participants, the participants would then evaluate and rate [...]
I like my job. Yes, there are many ordinary moments at work, but then there are the things that make me look around and muse ‘do I really get paid to do this?’
Tasting Table
Speaking of Grapes
One of the best work-things that I get to do is organize wine tastings for [...]
I have only been south of the equator on one occasion, and that was on a trip to the island of Fiji ten years ago. Really, when you are south of the equator it doesn’t feel so different from being north of the equator. For the most part it is [...]
Do you ever say or do something negative that is all about you & hurt someone who thinks it was all about him or her? Yeah. #MeInANutshell.::.2 days ago