Portrait of happy Vietnamese father and his adult daughter having dinner at home

It’s Father’s Day!

Dads love beer. Dads love whiskey. And Dads love wine! While we cannot help you with the whiskey or beer categories, we surely can assist in the wine department. But following suit with this year’s Mother’s Day post, a trip back in time to the Father of Wine. …

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Great (Wine) Gifts For Dad!

Father’s Day is right around the corner, so we’ve compiled some great gifts for the wine-loving dad in your life! Wine Decanter, $17-$1000+ A wine decanter is the most industrial, functional of all wine gifts for dad.  It can also become your dad’s next piece of fine art,…

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Rosé Facts

Here are 10 fun facts about Rosé for National Rosé Day! National Rosé day is the 2nd Saturday of June each year. Rosé wine predates red and white wine, first documented around roughly 7000 BC. Skin contact from red grape skins are what impart the color to the…

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3 Summer Wine Ideas

With the summer fast approaching, how will you be enjoying the weather and your wine this year? Here are 3 great ideas for enjoying the outdoors without losing touch with your wine-loving lifestyle! A Picnic: Choose Your Destination Break out the blanket or grab a table at your…

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Community Question: Why Wine?

A simple question. You could be a bourbon fanatic, a vodka collector, a beer aficionado…but why have you selected wine as your drink of choice? Please use the comment section below to leave your response. Register with Disqus to comment as a user, or you can always comment as a…

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Wedding Season

Wedding season has come upon us.  Just snuck up right out of nowhere!  Unless you’re planning one, then it has probably consumed your life.  But nonetheless, we are here to help… So often we get calls regarding wine for weddings.  Yes, we do that, and love to help…

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Memorial Day

Let’s all take a moment this day to remember all the service people who have given their lives for this country and our freedom. This is not a day for deals, or sales, or shopping till you drop as modern marketing says it is. Today is a day…

Celebrate National Wine Day with Jeff Goldblum

National Wine Day

So, yeah…. It’s National Wine Day. While this festive day doesn’t require as deep of thought, pocket, or emotion as OTBN in February, it deserves no less credit.  Today, tonight – somewhere in between – enjoy a bottle of wine (at any level of quality or price) with…

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Judgement of Paris

Today marks the anniversary of the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, a blind tasting panel that came to be known as the ‘Judgement of Paris’ – more on that in a moment… Briefly (as there’s tons of excellent documentation on this event available anywhere fine wine books are…

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Chardonnay Desires…

Happy International Chardonnay Day! Let’s face it, the world is full of Chardonnay.  There isn’t a place on the globe that sells alcohol that it’s hard to find a Chardonnay. That said, not all of them are the greatest, but to each their own, and wine is subjective,…