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Preparing for France

June 18, 2013 – 5:36 am

In 2006, when Kathy and I began Wine Trail Traveler, we thought we had to visit California. We did that year and have visited wine regions in that state several times since. Slowly we began to visit wineries outside of the United States, starting with Ontario, Canada. Then there was an opportunity to visit Tuscany […]

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Unique Opportunity to Tour Three Wine Regions in France

April 3, 2013 – 8:41 am

When we saw the email from Theresa Beaver, Viticulture and Enology Certificate Coordinator at Washington State University about a tour to France, we immediately responded. Theresa has been organizing tours to the world’s wine regions since 2010 when a group traveled to New Zealand for two weeks. Kathy and I were on that trip and […]

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Beaujolais Nouveau Day Events!

November 2, 2011 – 8:34 am

Beaujolais Nouveau Day takes place November 17, 2011. Beaujolais Nouveau wines produced only with the Gamay grape are a pleasant bright red with fruit nuances and without tannins. All enthusiastic wine lovers will want to participate in the annual Beaujolais Nouveau Day excitement. On the third Thursday of November, the Beaujolais Nouveau wines are quickly […]

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Beaujolais Wine Pairings for July 4th

June 29, 2011 – 8:16 am

Yesterday was the special Beaujolais twitter tasting event, Red, White, and Beaujolais: Celebrate the 4th with Refreshing Wines. Visit the Discover Beaujolais website for a replay of Cover It Live. Four different Beaujolais wines were tasted over a 1½ hours. Here on the East Coast the event started at 7:00 pm. We wanted to share […]

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Wine Creates Bonds in the Global Community: French Cooperage Buys a Cooperage in US

January 10, 2011 – 12:03 am

Looking at the world of wine, it’s interesting to see that more and more regions and countries are becoming involved with growing grapes and producing wine. Fifty years ago, if one were talking about quality wine one could pretty much know that the conversation would be about French wine. Much has changed over the past […]

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Wine, TV and France

March 24, 2010 – 1:05 am

In the world of wine, what country would you consider to be linked the most to wine? I imagine many people would consider France to be the answer. After all, France has been renowned for many of its wines including Champagne, Burgundy and Bordeaux. That’s why I was so amazed at an article by Maggie […]

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Josephine’s Wine Cellar Exhibit

January 7, 2010 – 11:05 am

I discovered that there is an exhibit that adds art and history to the world of wine. At the Château de Malmaison in France not far from Paris, Josephine’s wine cellar is currently on exhibit. According to the  http://www.napoleon.org website, “The exhibition also touches on the art of table decoration and service, with unique examples […]

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Today’s Bordeaux

March 12, 2009 – 7:00 am

On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of attending the “Today’s Bordeaux 2009” tasting event in New York City. The tasting included 100 featured wines that were chosen by a jury of experts in a blind tasting of 350 wines. Robert Cavanaugh, the owner of Adventure Wine, for who I do tastings, invited me. I considered […]

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