Wine Tonite!

Stepping into a piece of history is always a pretty cool feeling.  The Napa Valley Opera House was built in 1880 and has served as the epicenter of the community for much of those 130 years, not to mention playing host to many talented artists.  You can learn more about this awesome venue just off [...]

Let’s get this out on the table right away:  Champagne is sparkling wine made via the traditional method (meaning the wine was fermented and aged in the same bottle creating its own bubbles during the process) ONLY in the Champagne region of France.  I am sorry to say that this means that Cremant, Cava, Prosecco [...]

Here’s a pretty fun campaign and a chance to have this ugly mug up in Times Square. Ok, I’ll play along. I recently setup a profile on About.me as a nice one-stop-shop to share all my social media links and a little bit of information about me and what I do. On this page I [...]

Since moving to wine country our consumption of charcuterie has significantly increased.  While I can’t quite recall exactly when we were originally introduced to the idea of charcuterie, I do remember visiting a restaurant in Healdsburg of the same name on one of our wine country vacations not to long ago that really stuck with [...]

We love to hike, camp, travel, kayak, cycle, you name it… and living (or visiting) in wine country affords many opportunities to reach out beyond the local vineyards.  Recently, we stepped up our camping style by adding a camper trailer to our arsenal.  As you get older things like the simple conveniences of an on-board [...]