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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Wine and Fun

January 10, 2009 – 3:22 pm

While for many wine is a serious business, there are many opportunities to enjoy and have fun with wine. Consider wine tastings, wine and food pairings, or perhaps a neighborhood progressive type of dinner with an entrée at one home and a dessert with late harvest wines or ice wines at another home. Music and […]

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Wine Trail Traveler January Newsletter

January 9, 2009 – 1:41 pm

The January Newsletter is up on the Wine Trail Traveler website. The focus of the January issue is some of the remarkable stories behind some of the wineries we visited and wrote about in 2008. While every winery is unique, the wineries mentioned in these articles offer special chicken-soup style stories. Articles include “Wineries’ Best […]

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Lookout Ridge’s Wine for Wheels

January 8, 2009 – 1:52 pm

I always find it inspiring to discover people who are committed to a charitable cause and go above and beyond in helping. So I was curious when I heard about Lookout Ridge’s Wine for Wheels program. Lookout Ridge is located in California. Gordon Holmes, owner of Lookout Ridge has created a portfolio of winemakers and […]

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Wine, Women and Shoes

January 7, 2009 – 5:39 pm

Wine, Women and Shoes offers a delightful and funfilled way to to involve wine drinkers with charity. According to the website Wine, Women and Shoes in Arizona, Elaine Honig (a Napa Valley vintner) and a friend were commenting on wine and food pairings and said “wine and shoe pairings would be a lot more fun!” […]

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The Economy and the Wine Factor

January 6, 2009 – 3:57 pm

As a wine consumer, how is the economy affecting your choice of wines? Recent news reports indicate that wine for less than $10 a bottle is continuing to sell at current or higher levels. However, consumers who were purchasing wines that are more than $50 a bottle had cut their purchases by about 30 percent. […]

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Icewine Festivals

January 5, 2009 – 2:25 pm

Do you have a few extra days to travel this month? Consider visiting an Icewine festival. Canadian Icewine must follow strict regulations including the harvesting of grapes when the temperature is below -8 degrees Celsius (17 degrees Fahrenheit). The Icewine is expensive due to the labor-intensive procedure including usually handpicking the grapes and the frozen […]

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Renewable New Year’s Resolutions

January 4, 2009 – 6:59 pm

With about 6,000 wineries established throughout the United States and more continuing to open, one renewable New Year’s resolution is to plan to visit different wineries each year. Decide on how often you want to visit wineries. Will it be a one-day trip or multi-day trip? However you decide to set up a schedule, there […]

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Winery Special Events

January 3, 2009 – 5:43 pm

For another resolution to add to your already growing list of New Year’s resolutions, consider visiting a winery when it is having a special event. Regularly I will mention in this blog events that I become aware of that sound inviting. For instance, I just received an email from Veritas Vineyard and Winery in Virginia […]

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A Wine Rack as a New Year’s Resolution

January 2, 2009 – 1:32 pm

In keeping with New Year’s resolution ideas, if you don’t have a wine rack, consider building one or purchasing one. Wine racks come in many styles and dimensions. If you are building your own, you can custom fit it in any space. I had a small space and built a simple square out of scrap […]

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New Year’s Resolutions

January 1, 2009 – 11:36 am

Happy New Year! One traditional New Year activity is to make resolutions. If you don’t keep a wine journal, perhaps starting one and writing in it throughout the year may be a great resolution. You write your notes about a wine in a journal and later use your notes for reference. Wine journals come in […]

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