It’s All About That Baste — More Zinfandel! 7 Reasons Why
Happy ZInfandel Day! What’s in YOUR glass? Cheers!
Sorry Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, but for me, Turkey Day is All About That Baste –with More Zinfandel!
While I am not sure yet what exactly I will be sipping this holiday season (or on Sunday when we will cook turkey and ham and do some sampling!), what I have learned from previous tastings with various wines and holiday meals is that Zinfandel can handle well turkey, ham, and prime rib — and many of the sides.
Seven Reasons Why I Love a Good Zinfandel on Zin Day or any day:
- A beautiful garnet or ruby jewel color
- A nose full of both floral perfumes (cecil bruner roses!) and fruit — much like walking on a country road in summertime that has
- Plentiful brambleberry fruit, perhaps plum, rich and jammy on the palate.
- While that fruit might tend towards ripe jamminess, it has lots of spice and that fruit is balanced…
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Ferrari Bubbles from Italian Alps
Join us tonight and discover Ferrari Sparkling Wine from the Italian Alps!
What? There are CARS bubbling out of the Italian Alps? No I don’t mean that kind of Ferrari. I mean bubbles from the sparkling wine grown in the Alps and made in the winery started by Guilio Ferrari over 100 years ago!
On Tuesdays in November from 6-7pm I am participating in Protocol Wine’s Wine Studio Project tasting and education series with Ferrari, a sparkling wine producer from Trento which is located in the Dolomite region of the Alps in the northeastern part of Italy. To learn with us about Ferrari this month, check out the hashtags #winestudio and #FerrariTrento as we taste Ferrari’s award-winning wines: Brut, Rose, Perlè 2007, and Guilio Ferrari 2001.
Founded in 1902 by…
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2 Central Coast Tempranillo to Tempt you on #TempranilloDay 11/12/15
What will you be tempted by for Tempranillo Day Th. 11/12?
Are you ready to be tempted by Tempranillo on Tempranillo Day this Thursday November 12, 2015? That’s right,
International Tempranillo Day is the second Thursday in November which means this year it is Thurs. Nov. 12!
While you may not recognize Tempranillo by name, if you’ve ever had wine from Rioja, then you have tasted this spicy, lively varietal.
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Be A Space That Welcomes
Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement, advises Tsoknyi Rinpoche in this week’s Weekly Wake-up from Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, artist of the silk applique thangka detail pictured above. Read more…
4 Dessert Wines for Chocolate Day 10/28!
Happy Chocolate Day! My mom thought chocolate was one of the four food groups– how about you? How will you celebrate?
Chocolate is a food of the Gods. So thought the Maya about chocolate and I bet you may agree.
You may not, however, know how time consuming the production of chocolate is: it takes 400 or so cocoa beans to make a single pound of chocolate. Those cocoa beans go through an intense process to go from raw bean to roasted and fermented to ground cocoa to a bar with sweeteners that you want to consume; this process takes from two to four days to make one bar of chocolate.
Wine also is a food of the Gods and very time consuming, especially if you want a wine to go with CHOCOLATE like a port or port style dessert wine.
For a BIG birthday, I splurged and bought myself some special…
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3 Dia de los Muertos Events in Ventura Area
Dia de los Muertos will be celebrated Wednesday, October 28th 2015 in Ventura College’s Guthrie Hall from 6-9 pm. Read more…
On Opening Your Heart and Mind
“You don’t have to be anything,” reminds Tsoknyi Rinpoche. “You don’t have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and soul.”
How can we do this? How can we be who we are, a shining example? And can that bring more social and environmental justice to the world?
In his essay on Medium, “7 Things I Did to reboot My Life,” Wil Wheaton describes Read more…
Happy #ChampagneDay! A Toast with Champagne Jacquart Brut Mosaique!
How will YOU celebrate Champagne Day?
Tomorrow is the sixth annual #ChampagneDay! The 2015 #ChampagneDay is set for Friday, October 23.
What makes Champagne Champagne and not just another bottle of bubbles you wonder?
- Champagne is from the Champagne region of France, which, on July 5th 2015 was granted World Heritage status by UNESCO.
- Champagne is from the Champagne region of France, making it the only sparkling wine that can be called Champagne.
- Champagne is from Champagne, France.
But beyond the fact that CHAMPAGNE only comes from the Champagne region of France and all other bubbles are just sparkling wine and NOT Champagne? This video offers a few clues:
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On Being Kind As We Name, Reflect, Act on Problems in the World
In chapter two of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire proposes teachers bring “problem posing” into the classroom. Freire argues that students have real questions for which they want answers, real problems they want to solve, real ideas they want to explore about their world. He encourages teachers to move from a transmission style of teaching to a transformative one, one that provides students with opportunities to transform their world. To do so, he suggests a process of naming, reflecting, and acting on the real world problems we face today. In Stop Stealing Dreams, Seth Godin also encourages students to get out and work on real world problems. Read more…
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