by Debbie | Apr 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
I was asked a few weeks ago to take part in a #Winechat featuring Hungarian Wines. How could I refuse. This was my chance to taste wines from my home country. One of the wines is produced about 40 minutes from where my family is from. Below were the selections for...
by Debbie | Apr 1, 2014 | Captain Lawrence Brewing
It’s opening day for our national pastime, but it really doesn’t feel like it. The weekend was a wet washout, a few flakes even flew, and if you look around a bit, you can still find clumps of snow where the sun, as the saying goes, don’t shine. But when the ump calls...
by Debbie | Mar 31, 2014 | JCB Wines, Jean-Charles Boisett, Raymond Vineyards
I had no idea what we was in store when Cindy said we had a tasting at Raymond Vineyards at 1pm and we couldn’t be late. After all I wasn’t expecting to do any wine tasting on my trip.When we arrived at Raymond Vineyards and were waiting for our host...
by Debbie | Mar 27, 2014 | Napa Valley Wine Tasting
I found myself on an unexpected trip to San Francisco two weeks ago. It wasn’t a trip of pleasure as one of my best friends husband had succumbed to brain cancer. I stayed a week with her to help her what she needed and was not expecting to visit wine country....
by Debbie | Mar 25, 2014 | Captain Lawrence Brewing
Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters had their acid test, and Scott Vaccaro and his Captain Lawrence boys have theirs too. Taking place at a number of better beer establishments in the region, The Captain Lawrence Acid Test offers up three pale ales of...