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Best VA Beach places to watch the Super Bowl!

2016 Super Bowl 50 – VA Beach! It’s fun going out and rooting for your team with fellow fans and not having to cook or clean-up afterwards. If you want to go out and watch the Big Game in Virginia Beach, I’ve got a list of the BEST places to go for watching the Super Bowl.  Plus I have two […]

The question we ALL ask ourselves every day…

What’s for dinner? This one question always spurs more, like what’s in the refrigerator? What can I eat that’s delicious, easy and healthy?  It’s usually a verbal ping-pong with Mike until I end up cooking something from my memory database of Pinterest. But sometimes (ok more than sometimes) I don’t want to cook, I want […]

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 […]

Wine Christmas Gifts

There are only 97 days until Christmas!If you are trying to figure out what to give your friends who love wine, I’m here to help. I’ve created a wine lovers wish list to help you with your gift search. No Snuggies, ties or fruit cake please.If your friends don’t have good wine glasses that’s a great place […]

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 […]

4th of July Wine Game

Red, White & Blush This is an easy and fun wine game to play at your next 4th of July get together.  All you need is 3 wines and 3 cheeses. This is a great way to start off your party. Wine & cheese appetizer pairing game Get three bottles of wine, a red, white, and blush. Decorate them […]

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 […]

Carrie Wall

Does size matter?

Who only drinks one glass of wine? Can I stay healthy and drink more than one glass of wine a day? With all the cancer scares I wanted to know how much I could drink safely. What is the correct serving size for a glass of wine? Why are wines severed in glasses only half […]