Wine 101

Personalized wine recommendations? Yes please.

Do you get annoyed and/or feel inadequate when you don’t like highly rated wines? I do. You know the scene: you buy a wine with a high score (95!) on the little signs in the grocery store and you leave feeling confident, only to find…

Tasting Notes

Turkey and Wine Pairings. By tribe!

Editors note: Big Red and I are officially married and back from our honeymoon in Portugal (amazing wines…more on that later). I am still coming out of the post wedding haze and getting back into the swing of blogging. In the meantime I wanted to re-post…

Wine 101, Wine Travel

Cheers to Weddings and Wine!

First, let me apologize for being an absentee blogger. As many of you know Big Red and I are getting married (in less than one week!) and wedding planning has become my part-time job. Sadly, at the cost of my other part-time job, blogging about…

Wine 101

Woo woo or Wonderful?

I have reflected a bit on biodynamic wines in the past and while there are some aspects that make perfect sense to me, there are some other bits that seem downright strange. Below is a great article that ran recently in the Seattle Times on the growing biodynamic…

Wine 101

Wine 101: The Acid Test

For a long time I didn’t know how to talk about acidity in wine. I just knew when there was too much, because I found myself making a face that makes me look like a bass player in an 80’s hair band. You know the…

Rosé, Tasting Notes

Rosé Tasting Results Are In!

Ok, ll be the first to admit that I used to think that drinking rosé was for sissies, but I have since evolved. Today’s rosés run the gamut, from bone dry to sickeningly sweet. We recently held a tasting to find one that the tribe could feel good about…

Wine 101

Think Pink!

I just participated in the Susan G. Komen 3 Day walk to raise money for breast cancer. As you may know, this is an event that is drenched in pink…pink signs, pink gear, pink tents etc.  As I was hoofing it through 60 long miles I couldn’t…

Wine Travel

Killah Zillah!

Big Red and I recently went wine tasting in Zillah, WA. Not familiar with it? It is about two hours east of Seattle, between Yakima and Walla Walla. It was fantastic;  the wine makers were super friendly, the juice was terrific and we got to stay…

Tasting Notes, Wine 101

Is Wine Tasting Bulls&*t?

Note from the editor: Apologies for being MIA the last few months. As some of you know Big Red and I are getting hitched which means my part time job of blogging has been temporarily replaced by my part time job of wedding planning. I…

Red, Tasting Notes, White

Eco Friendly Wine Tasting Results Are In!

In honor of Earth Day we recently held a wine tasting of organic and bio-dynamic wines. We paired the wines with organic and local foods, and we were pretty excited until we got to the organic quinoa and sweet potato cakes which were what you would expect to…