Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
First, my apologies to Cleavage Creek for taking so long to write this review. As I mentioned to them soon after we got the wines, Hubby’s mom is a breast cancer survivor, so we wanted to share them with her. She broke her leg last August (unrelated to the cancer, which she seems to be …
As I’ve mentioned, I’m a bit behind on my blog posts. Yes, I feel like a slacker, but check out this post at my Random Writings blog to see what’s been going on. Ohyeah, I think I might be in danger of becoming a lamp junkie. I’ll let you know if I find one with …
The toughest thing about being a wine and food blogger is that the busier I am with wine and food events, the less time I have to write about them. However, if I don’t have anything going on, I don’t have anything to write about. Luckily, since we got back from the Pacific Northwest, life …
Hi, I’m Cecilia, and I’m a dessert addict. Yes, no matter how stuffed I am, I’ll take a peek at those seductive little menus with the fancy font promising an array of delights, decadence, and extra trips to the gym. Hubby will turn them down, and I’ll assuage my guilt with a “Let’s split something.” …
What does one do after a wonderful weekend of hanging out with fellow oenophiles, drinking wine, and talking about blogging? Drink more wine, of course! If you’ll allow me a moment of mushiness, I am so grateful to have this hobby. It’s allowed me to see parts of the country I never would have and …
All hail the power of Twitter and Hubby’s new FourSquare addiction! In the week since we returned from the Pacific Northwest, the question has not been, “How was your trip?” but rather, “Sounds like y’all had a great trip!” It was, and this journey got off to a great start with the Wine Bloggers’ Conference …
I was going to put this post off until after I covered some of the Wine Bloggers’ Conference material as well as the post-conference adventures. However, Dave Kell of inDecatur made a cameo appearance tonight to sample some wine, so I thought I’d go ahead and get the notes up for the full lineup. Conference …
I’ve gotten behind on my JavaMonkey wine tasting notes, probably due to that little jaunt to Texas at the beginning of the month and another to the Pacific-Northwest after the Wine Bloggers’ conference. I do have thoughts to post on the WBC excursion on Saturday and then our subsequent adventures. I’ll get to those this …
When I told my friends I was going to a wine bloggers’ conference, they looked at me skeptically and then asked, “What are you going to do there?” No doubt they pictured a lot of intense people sitting through seminars with intriguing titles like, “Distinguishing funkiness: forest floor vs. barnyard” or “101 ways to describe …
Here’s how this works: each winemaker or rep has 5 minutes to pour and talk about the wine, and we have the same amount of time to drink and write about it. 12 rounds. Here we go… Monthaven Winery2007 Cabernet Sauvignon (Central Coast)Octavin technology — an eight-sided “box” guaranteed to be good 6 weeks after …