Art inspired by wine Wine and Design is one interesting art education venue. Lessons are given centered around a featured piece of art. When we popped our heads in, the adult students were in the midst of creating their paintings and enjoying a glass of wine. The wine certainly must improve one’s creativity! Wine and … Read more
Wine Bloggers Conference 2016 will be in Lodi “The last time I saw Lodi, the grapes were on the ground, and we went round and round and round, and ….” Don Sherwood, at one time the most popular disc jockey in San Francisco, would sing this jingle often. It was a bit of poking fun … Read more
Wine Bloggers Conference 2015 – Pre activities, Vanderbilt Mansion Wine Room The Wine Bloggers Conference officially begins on Thursday, August 13, 2015. We started our pre-conference activities on Saturday, August 8, in Hyde Park in the Hudson Valley. The photo above shows the Vanderbilt Mansion owned by Frederick Vanderbilt, the third generation of the wealthy railroad family. This … Read more
We are in New York heading to the Wine Bloggers Conference in Corning. Our first stop is the very beautiful Hudson Valley. We decided to stay in Hyde Park, New York, where FDR was raised, and where he eventually started the first Presidential Library. A visit to the FDR House is amazing and highly recommended. … Read more
Napa Valley is known all over the world for fantastic wine, but good wine is even better with good food. All the things that make Napa a wonderful place for growing grapes and making wine, make Napa a dream come true for foodies everywhere. Next time you’re in the Napa area, try one of these … Read more
DaVero wine and olive oil and much more We recently had an interesting visit at DaVero Farms & Winery. It’s located near Healdsburg, CA, on Westside Road, just about opposite the entrance of the historic Madrona Manor. The owners of DaVero, Ridge Evers & Colleen McGlynn, have made this into one of the most interesting … Read more
Paella in the vineyards – Paella recipe What could be more fun than Paella in the vineyards of California wine country? Making a Paella for a crowd has become very popular activity at wineries, restaurants, and homes in wine country. In the above photo we see a Paella almost ready to feed a group of … Read more
Fritz Underground Winery began in the late 1970s under the ownership of the late Jay Fritz. Jay was one of the many winery owners and winemakers that emerged from my alma mater, Saint Ignatius High School in San Francisco. Perhaps it was his S.I. academics that gave him the insight to construct a winery entirely built … Read more
We travel to California wine country often and, within the last year and a half, we have discovered five wineries who are using concrete eggs for either fermenting or aging wine. The eggs are limited in use at these five wineries, with stainless tanks and oak barrels the mainstay of wine production. But the concrete egg … Read more
This is fig season so why not try making a perfect fig pizza in your oven or on the BBQ grill. I got this recipe for fig pizza thanks to Chef Matt Paille, who created this pizza during his stint at the Manzinata Restaurant in Healdsburg. It really is a fabulous and delicious pizza even … Read more