Happy Hour with Rias Baixas Albarino

Happy Hour with Rias Baixas Albarino

Happy Hour with Rias Baixas Albarino While so much has changed these days, so has the wine programs I was supposed to attend. Obviously canceled. BUT we get creative in the wine industry, and the wine programs come to you. Instead of me going to a seminar and...
Sauvignon Blanc Lovers TRY Albarino

Sauvignon Blanc Lovers TRY Albarino

So you love Sauvignon Blanc. That is the only wine you drink, preferably from New Zealand with it’s racy acidity and the grapefruit pith. Yes, I have a friend that only drinks this wine. It’s not that she turns her head to other white wines that we make her try, this...
Winephabet Street – A is for Albarino

Winephabet Street – A is for Albarino

I embarked on a new adventure with Lori Budd of Dracaena Wines two weeks about call Winephabet Street.  Think Sesame Street for wine lovers.  Our first show was all about the Letter A and Albarino. Albarino is the indigenous grape variety hails from the Rias Baixas...
Dancing with the Coyotes

Dancing with the Coyotes

I love this quote I found on their website –  “The Coyote Legend” “Legend has it, each year at the beginning of hte growing season, a band of coyotes from the nearby foothills, sneak into our vineyards, and for no apparent reason other...
More Albarino Please

More Albarino Please

We are into week 6 of Albarino and I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying learning all about Green Spain, Galicia and the wine. The Celtic tribe that was known as Gallaeci settled in the region during the Iron Age. They left behind castros which were fortified,...
3 Take-Aways After A Month of Albarino

3 Take-Aways After A Month of Albarino

Every week in April I was amazed at the Albarino wine I tasted.  All unique, all similar yet very different. The wines tasted in the program I am taking part in were 100% Albarino.( We are moving to Albarino blends in May, so more to come on this wonderful wine...