Traveling Oenophile, Day Two in Asheville

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Today’s post is being brought to you by the Battery Park Book Exchange. Yes, I might be at the bar hanging out with the spoils of my bookstore tour of Asheville and a glass of Prosecco. Hubby and I have our system worked out for visiting beer towns – he finds breweries, and I find

Tasting Notes: Cal-Itals at JavaMonkey

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Ugh, I hate the current trend to combine couple names with cutesy abbreviations. “Brangelina” — bite me (or each other). “TomKat” — cult favorite. “Those freaky-looking Twilight kids.” Okay, that’s not a couple combination name, but they’re still annoying. So I approached the idea of “Cal-Itals” with much hesitation. If you’re wondering, they’re Italian grapes