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Fun News! Vineyards, Golf, Sheep and Goats

July 4, 2010 – 2:09 pm

Happy July 4th! Hope you are enjoying a relaxing day, drinking a glass of wine – perhaps a fruity, crisp white Riesling and staying cool. This morning I read one of our local online news stations wtop.com. They feature a section called Watercooler. An article ND golf course brings in weed-eating goats, is about goats eating grass […]

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What are the perks of your job?

July 4, 2010 – 6:53 am

It is always interesting to gage reactions when someone asks me about my job. I tell them that I am a travel writer that travels to wineries and vineyards around the world and write articles about them. You can observe them processing. I know they processed the word travel and from wineries they processed the […]

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Update on Maryland Direct Shipping

July 1, 2010 – 9:54 am

Here’s some important information I want to pass on to wine enthusiasts and wineries about the progress of Maryland direct shipping. Yesterday I received an email from MD Direct Wine Shipping Adovcates titled “Wine Shipping Comptroller Update” in Maryland. A second meeting has taken place. According to the information I received, “The Comptroller’s office has […]

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Wine Country Inn in Colorado Receives Special Mention

June 29, 2010 – 8:19 pm

We have visited the wineries in the Palisade, Colorado area a couple of times. During one of our stays we had the privilege of staying at the Wine Country Inn located within a stone’s throw of Interstate 70, which extends almost from the east coast to the west coast. We had a delightful time while […]

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On to Paper and Pen or Finger and iPad

June 24, 2010 – 4:00 pm

When we finish a trip to visit wineries, the work begins. We returned from visiting two wineries in West Virginia and eleven in Ohio.  Now we start to write articles, edit photos and assemble web pages. That should take us another week. At the same moment we are planning our next travels, this time to […]

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The Wine Was Overpriced

June 22, 2010 – 6:48 pm

I read on Twitter a comment that a wine was overpriced. Then I began to think about what this statement means. It seems way too subjective. If one is not willing to pay more than $15 for a bottle of wine, is a $20 bottle of wine overpriced? Suppose the cost to produce a bottle […]

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What’s in a Wine Name?

June 22, 2010 – 1:01 am

Do you ever decide to buy a bottle of wine based on the name of the wine? Do some wine names entice you to wonder what’s inside that bottle? Have you heard of any of these wine names Educated Guess, Chaos Theory or Debauchery? These are actual wine names. According to an article, It’s think […]

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Our 500th Winery Visit

June 18, 2010 – 7:43 am

If you are a baseball fan you probably heard of the Washington National’s Stephen Strasburg. Strasburg won his first two major league starts for the Nationals after being called up from the minors a few days ago. Last week the pitching sensation was asked how his week went. Stephen replied that it felt just like […]

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Five Hundred Winery/Vineyard Tasting Rooms: What’s the Future?

June 17, 2010 – 6:04 am

Wine Trail Traveler staff have visited and written about 500 wineries. What lies in their future? Future visits in 2010 will include wineries in Washington around Seattle and Wala Wala. During the fall we’ll visit wineries near San Diego, revisit Temecula and venture to Santa Barbara in California. Our 2010 visits will conclude with a […]

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Five Hundred Winery/Vineyard Tasting Rooms and Counting

June 16, 2010 – 4:41 am

As we celebrate visiting and writing about our 500th tasting room, we reminisced on the many wonderful places our travels have taken us. During those visits we are asked many questions from other wine enthusiasts, owners and winemakers. The one most asked question is why we created Wine Trail Traveler. During the fall of 2006 […]

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