While many recession-conscious restaurants are reducing their wine inventory and trimming the variety on their wine lists, at Press in St. Helena, customers can now expect to see an extra bottle or two. Or actually, several hundred. Press sommeliers Kelli White and Scott Brenner have just purchased more than 400 different wines dating back to [...]
Washington’s Burgeoning Cult Wines
Cult wines. Ask wine people their thoughts on them and you’ll get divisive opinions. On one hand, you have wines of high vineyard quality, scarcity, and prestige. On the other, you have wines that are absurdly expensive, nigh impossible to get, and carry a snob level that is only matched by those that regularly read [...]
Napa Valley Grapegrowers Report: What makes this valley different
Recently, I had the opportunity, along with three other membersof the Napa Valley Grapegrowers, to ride my bicycle across theUnited States. During the two-month journey from San Diego to St.Augustine, Fla., we visited town after town that unfortunately wereeither dead or dying. This observation got me thinking about how fortunate we are tolive in [...]
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Gift offering is an essential component of operating an effective enterprise; the correct reward will go a lengthy method to solidifying organization relationships even though the incorrect present could do far more harm than excellent. Organizations give corporate gift baskets to personnel and clients for a lot of reasons, including career effectively completed, thank you, [...]
Do You Use Fancy Wine Glasses?
Forte glass on the left, Vitis on the right. [Photo: Maggie Hoffman] For the casual wine drinker, glassware doesn’t make a huge difference. You want something that allows you to smell and taste the wine, that feels nice in your hand and at your lips, and that isn’t too much of a pain to store [...]
Vintage food fight set for El Cortez
A Vintage Vegas Foods Street Food Throwdown is scheduled for 8 tonight at the El Cortez, 600 Fremont St. Local street vendors, including food trucks, will compete to create the best dishes inspired by the hotel-casino’s Vintage Dining Menu. Bartenders will be mixing up vintage cocktails, too. … In honor of National Cheesecake Day on [...]
Best Napa Valley Red Wine Worth Seeking Out (for the money)
IntoWine asked our panel of experts to share their recommendations for the best Napa Valley red wine worth seeking out (for the price of course): Napa Valley has a reputation for a reason. a millennia of earth-moving eruptions and oceanic intrusion (which stripped the valley’s hillsides of deep soils) has helped to develop a particular [...]
Wine And Chocolate Present Baskets – How To Decide On The Best An Individual
Tweet Sharebar Tweet An individual of the terrific gifts you can give to any sort of events is a wine and chocolate present basket. this is the most well-known mode of gifting not only in western cultures but so too in other countries. It is the uncomplicated amazing seeking sort of present, special, presentable to [...]
If people keep wine in cellars, does that mean it never expires?
im always hearing about the aging of wine…like keeping it in cellars, for long time. this whole "fine wine" thing. i dont drink, so i know nothing about alcohol and im curious to know. does wine, at least the kind you would put in a cellar, expire at some point? how long can they be [...]
Denver bets on a county fair, aiming at hipsters
DENVER — Denver has an ambitious plan to revive the county fair: blend throwback chic with urban grit to draw crowds celebrating everything weird and crafty. Mix funnel cakes with drag queens, add a dash of old-time quilting and newly hip knitting, and the recipe could produce what organizers hope is a new flavor of [...]
