Wine Education

Judgment of Paris has twists and turns. The inside news

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The movie “Bottle Shock” is currently playing in selected theaters. The movie tells the story of Chateau Montelena of the Napa Valley topping the best of French white wines in the 1976 taste off known as the “Judgment of Paris.” Well, we experienced a bottle shock of our own at the Family Winemakers event held … Read more

In Search of Sparkling Wine in Napa Valley and Carneros

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Any day of the year is a great time to enjoy Sparkling wine but in the warm days of late summer, this bubbly wine is particularly refreshing and tasty. Carneros and the Napa Valley have several wineries that produce great sparkling wine. With this blog post we begin a series of posts on some of these. But first, here is some quick information about Sparkling Wine.

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Napa Valley Reading Material

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Are you getting ready to travel to the Napa Valley? Here are four books on the Napa Valley that we think you might enjoy. Two are non-fiction books that give an excellent account of the history of Napa Valley, and the other two are light mysteries that take place in the Napa Valley. Choose one and enjoy reading poolside at your hotel or in the library room of your comfortable B&B.

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Wine Spills — A Student’s Science Fair Project

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This is quite a departure from our usual topic of the Napa Valley and Carneros wine country, but we thought our readers would find this posting very fascinating and helpful.

As we walked the aisles of an elementary science fair where our granddaughter attends school, one project caught our eye. The title read, “Wine Spills.” Wow, we thought, the topic of wine has come to an elementary school science fair!

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Julia Flynn Siler – The House of Mondavi

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Last Saturday we attended the Burlingame Foundation Luncheon. Julia Flynn Siler, the author of the House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, was one of three featured authors. We did not attend so much to hear Julia but to support the Burlingame Library Foundation, but having Julia speak was a huge bonus. Her presentation was limited to 20 minutes but she gave us a fascinating account of her trials and tribulations in writing the book about one of the most famous families in the world of wine.

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Napa Valley Happenings

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Hendry Wines — Albariño and Harvest Tours We just tried an Albariño wine made by Hendry winery. There are just a very few California wineries that make this wine varietal. Albariño is a Spanish white wine, grown mainly in the Rias Biaxas DO (Denominations of Origin) in Spain. This area in Spain is in the … Read more

Wine Classes in the Napa Valley with the CIA

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The Culinary Institute of America offers wine and food classes at its campus in the historic Greystone building in St. Helena. What an adventure to combine a trip to the wine country with a wine or a cooking class. If nothing else, a traveler to the Napa Valley should wander in on this lovely historic … Read more

Learning About Wine in the Napa Valley

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What seems “hot�? right now is an interest in taking wine classes or participating in activities centered on wine education. We have noticed a recent increase in emails from visitors to our Wine Country Getaways Web site requesting information on how and where they can learn about wine. We thought it to be a worthy … Read more