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Winey Tasting Notes: Fog Head Wine and My Foggy Headed Child

What to do when a bottle of wine is a total bargain and has a name that makes you giggle? Buy it in red and white! Such was the case a few weeks ago when I spied a  new wine offering at a local store. It was being featured in the store’s “best under $10”…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Watching “Bottle Shock”, Sipping Chateau Montelena

Today I’d like to talk about a particularly inspired birthday gift that some friends gave me this past (significant/big/ends in a zero) birthday. I really don’t think I am a difficult person to buy for, because if there is ever any question…go with the wine. Any wine. All wine. Thank you very much. Which is…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Canvassing the Campuses With Campus Oaks

I don’t know about all of you, but recently, the word “campus” evokes a certain anxious excitement around the Winey Household. This is because we are smack dab in the middle of the Winey Daughter’s senior year in high school. And that means she will be heading off to college in the fall. But not…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Chocolate and Wine

We are a few days out from Valentine’s Day, which means that all our Winey hearts are turning in one general direction: wine and chocolate. A classic combo if ever there was one. And yet it seems that everyone has an opinion on how to pair them with each other. The first words that comes…

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Winey Tasting Notes: A Pair of Rosés for Valentine’s Day Sipping

Rosé wine and I have had a bit of a difficult relationship. First off, I had to get over that pink color. Because I think that, like most people, when I see pink wine, I think “sweet” or “lightweight” or “the only wine I can get my mother to drink”. But no no no no. Rosé…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Hoping for Italy, Part Two – Bolla Creso

Welcome to Part Two of my Italian vacation dream. I started these wine reviews because The Winey Family is planning (and hoping and praying for) a trip to Italy this coming summer to celebrate The Winey Son’s college graduation and the Winey Daughter’s high school graduation. (It’s gonna be quite a week in May. You…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Wine-ing on Broadway

Is there anything more fun than a Broadway musical? How about a Broadway musical that serves a yummy Argentinian wine in really cool sippy wine cups? I can attest that such was the case this past December when the Winey family took in the award winning musical “Once” on our trip to NYC. I am…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Bolla Prosecco for 2014

Winey NYC Family Winey Army-Navy Game Family Oh my oh my. The Winey Hubby and I were exhausted. Since the beginning of December, we had been on a winey whirlwind of a month. First up was a trip to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. A wonderful weekend, if you don’t count the actual game itself….

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Winey Tasting Notes: I Can Handle January, As Long as Downton Abbey Makes Wine

January 2014 will arrive a little less painfully in my Winey Little World. Oh yes, I will still be dealing with the after effects of The Winey Son returning to school and the current effects of the Winey Daughter gearing up for senior midterms (our misguided school district schedules them for two weeks AFTER Christmas…