Christmas Wine Game

Christmas Wine Game 3 White Wines & 3 Red Wines It is always fun to try new wines with a blind wine tasting game. So for all you wine lovers here is an easy tasting game for your holiday party. You can keep it simple by having folks only mark the wines they like and […]

Trader Joes Bouchaine Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir Fight – Burgundy vs Napa

And the winner is… My quest for the perfect Pinot Noir continues… Does Burgundy or Napa have the best Pinot Noir? I bought three wines, two from the Burgundy area of France and one from Napa in California. The most expensive wine was the Burgundy Chateau de Mercey, $19.99 at Total Wine. I was expecting this one to […]

2 Incredible Wines & 3 Ingredient Appetizer

Amazing Cabernet Sauvignon that tastes like Pinot! The Va Beach Total Wine store was featuring wines from its top 20 list this past Saturday and I tasted two wines that were outstanding! A Cabernet Sauvignon that tasted like a Pinot Noir, and a buttery, melt in your mouth, bursting with butterscotch flavor Chardonnay. I made a […]

Pinot_Noir Polenta brownie bites

3 Wine Reviews, Pinot Noir, Nimes Blanc, Bug Juice

Watch out Willamette Valley – you have competition!I was in the mood to try new wines today so I took advantage of Total Wine’s free Saturday wine tasting. Out of the six wines I tasted I found three that were delicous.My favorite was a California Montoya Pinot Noir for $16.99 a bottle. It was pleasantly fruit […]

Grilled veggies shrimp and Piston Bay Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir & Football

Inspiration from the land down under! I’m watching the first pre-season Redskin game against the Cleveland Browns. Cleveland is ahead. I still can’t believe I’m watching football, didn’t summer just start? How can it be football season already? Time marches on, summer is starting to wind down, and my quest to find the perfect Pinot Noir […]

Porn & Pinot

I’ve been thinking about both lately. Porn is easy to find, heightens your senses, and can be stimulating, but after you have indulged in it you can feel a little bad about yourself. I asked myself why, and I think it’s because porn is fake and it’s an extreme presenting itself as an ordinary reality.  I’m talking about 

Star crossed Pinot Noir lovers

I have been searching for a certain Pinot Noir for years now, for my husband Mike. He was on a business trip years ago and at a dinner party was severed a Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley. That evening he fell in love with Pinot Noir. Since then he has relentlessly been searching for that […]