7.08.2008
Friday Night: Wine, BBQ & Live Music Under The Stars
This upcoming Friday night our friends at LearnAboutWine and HollywoodWine.Net are teaming up for Taste: Paso Robles BBQ Wine Tasting at A & D Museum with LACMA, a special wine tasting under the stars at the Architecture and Design Gallery in Los Angeles. Not only will you be able to sample 40+ wines from more than a dozen of Paso Robles' best wineries, you'll also get to enjoy great food, live music sets and a DJ with over 300 other wine enthusiasts.Some of the wineries that will be participating include Kiamie Wine Cellars, San Marcos Creek, Eden Canyon and Calcareous. A BBQ menu that features food which will go down perfectly with these fine wines will be served throughout the event. For the evening's entertainment up and coming singer/songwriters Kari Kimmel & Shawn Hlookoff will each perform while you enjoy all of the different vintages.
Tickets for Taste: Paso Robles BBQ Wine Tasting at A & D Museum with LACMA can be purchased for $55. For more information on what's sure to be a unique event and experience email brad@hollywoodwines.net. The festivities begin around 7:30 PM at A + D Gallery (Across from LACMA) located at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard in LA. To purchase tickets call 818-515-3760.
Labels: Scott Bernstein, Wine
2.10.2008
The Single Bottle Wine Cellar
Do you have that one special bottle in your wine collection that you're saving for just the right occasion? Now you give that bottle the treatment it deserves by storing it in the new Angelshare single bottle wine cellar. The Angelshare keeps your favorite vintage at the perfect temperature and humidity level. We particularly like the sleek design of the cellar, which is sure to stand out in any room.Once you put your bottle in the Angelshare you don't have to worry about the condition of the wine. The Angelshare has both heating and cooling elements that ensures the wine stays at just the right temperature. You can select from three different temperature pre-sets, allowing you to pick the one that best suits the character of your wine. Humidity is kept at 65% or more to prevent shrinkage of the cork.
Unlike other small cellars the Angelshare isn't noisy thanks to the super-silent exhaust fan. This mechanism delivers a cooling effect without the use of freon, so you don't have to worry about harming the environment. Just keep in mind that this device isn't intended for use with Champagne. You can purchase the Angelshare single bottle wine cellar for $396.55 at Compact Impact.
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Labels: Scott Bernstein, Wine
7.14.2007
“Two Buck Chuck” wins the gold at California State Fair
Normally we would tell you to save the $2 dollar wine for the winos but apparently something can be cheap and good all at the same time.Who knew ;-)
The inexpensive wine nicknamed “Two Buck Chuck” beat out 350 contenders ranging in price from $18 to $55 a bottle. It is mass-produced and sold exclusively through Trader Joe’s grocery stores.
It's the California wine with the cult following.
Humble Two Buck Chuck. The $1.99 nectar of the gods that is sinfully cheap and good.
This article from the SF Weekly explains just how Franzia can sell reasonable-tasting wine for such unreasonably inexpensive prices.
With few exceptions, the grapes used to make the wine in those bottles have no connection to Napa Valley's heralded grape-growing soil. Yet Bronco's decidedly less expensive wines are imbued with the coveted Napa cachet -- unfairly so, many of the region's vintners say. That's because its bottles are either stamped with one of several Napa Valley-associated labels that Bronco [the parent company of Charles Shaw] has managed to acquire from distressed wineries over the years, or, at the very least, because the plant's carefully chosen location makes it possible for the labels to proclaim that the wine is "bottled" in Napa.
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Labels: Wine
