Ciao amichi, So with the holiday hangover subsiding and getting back into the good old regular routine of work and study I’m hoping I can schedule a consistant routine of trying new wines and blogging about them. Tonight I decided to make dinner for my lover. I scoured through though The Vegetarian Bible and settled [...]
Continue Reading →Ciao Amichi! Friday evenings are one of my favorite times of the week. Michigan has some beautiful sunsets. Sometimes I’ll just thrown on some Coltrane and stare out the window (glass in hand of course). Speaking of glass I picked up some new white wine glasses from this cute little home furnishings boutique in Windsor, [...]
Continue Reading →Ciao Amichi, I hope this blog post finds you all well! I know i’ve been neglecting my darlings, but it’s not me; it’s the god aweful test I’m studying for! I’ll spare you the gory details, but I will be done in the next two weeks then I can go back to my regular x-number-of-bottles-per [...]
Continue Reading →Ciao Amichi, So today me and the lover did what we normally do best…SHOP! …and today was the perfect day for shopping; a bright and sunny 81 degree day! For any of you that know us, knows that no shopping excursion is complete for us without a trip to our Triple Threat Three; Target, Trader [...]
Continue Reading →Spring is here and I promised some of my family members I’d deviate (slightly) from my Chianti, and Tuscany regional wines, and feature more light-bodied wines; think Prosecco, champagne, rose, and Zinfandels. Today, we’ll talk a bit about Zinfandels. Zinfandel is a variety of red grapes produced most knowingly by many in California. Zinfandel grapes typically produce red [...]
Continue Reading →Now, I try to be methodical with my wine purchases referencing sources like Wine Spector, Snooth.com, trusted friends, and my darling before many of my purchases, but even I am a sucker for a pretty bottle. This leads me to the wine I will feature today. Opala is a beautiful White wine from Portugal encased in a just as [...]
Continue Reading →Hola Amicos! Well, it’s been an amazing New Year Even weekend with my sweetie, but now it’s time for me to leave lovely Canada and head back to American pastures; but my love would not let me leave on an empty stomach. For lunch she made me a hearty lacto-ova vegetarian sandwich consisting of homemade [...]
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