Virginia Wineries on the Monticello Wine Trail – Wine Bloggers Conference 2011
Last week 300 wine bloggers met in Charlottesville, Virginia, for their 4th annual conference and spent three days learning how to be better wine bloggers, while at the same time discovering Virginia...
View ArticleArmida Winery – one of the best picnic wineries
Enjoying a picnic lunch at a winery is one of life’s finer pleasures. We have our list of favorite wineries with great picnic areas and views, and the Armida Winery is one of those that head the list....
View ArticleTeldeschi Vineyards in Dry Creek Valley
Lush grape clusters on this 100 year-old Zin A little-known and offbeat vineyard resides on Dry Creek Road. Each day hundreds of tourists drive by and never enter the realm of Teldeschi Vineyards and...
View ArticleExploring the Willamette Valley wine country of Oregon
Dag Johan Sundy of the biodynamic Johan Vineyards The Willamette Valley is where wine lovers flock to visit boutique and small family-owned wineries and to taste Pinot Noir and other cool-climate...
View Article“The Spirit of the Man” Sculpture Exhibit at Paradise Ridge Winery
Sculpture Exhibit – Spirit of the Man While attending the Wine Tourism Conference last week in Santa Rosa, we were led by Che Voigt on a guided tour of “The Spirit of the Man” Sculpture Exhibit at...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving and How to Carve a Turkey
Carving the Turkey Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. We always host Thanksgiving dinner and this year we will have 18 people in our dining room. Putting a Thanksgiving dinner together is a...
View ArticleTrends in Wine Tourism
We were delighted to attend the Wine Tourism Conference last month held at the Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa. We met a lot of new people in the wine industry, as well as some new winery owners,...
View ArticleThe Wine Travelers in the wine country of France and Spain
Lucky us, we will be traveling for almost all of October in the wine country of France and Spain. We have rented a house for a week in both the Rhone Valley and the Languedoc region of France. Then...
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