In cleaning out email tonight, including my 2 per week from Pottery Barn, one of their email subject lines caught my eye, "Throw a party, any party!" My kinda email! So I clicked through and what a cool resource I found. {click to view site} They've "gathered all the tools you need - from simple [...]
Red Truck Wines from Sonoma, California this month introduces their new Mini-Barrel. How cute is this little thing! This 'ingenious trademark- and patent-pending barrel design complete with rings, a wood grain look and burned-in imagery' feels like its straight from the winery to your home. The 3L barrel holds the equivalent of 4 750ml bottles [...]
Coming this fall to Britain and the U.S.... Sting, the ex Police man and British rocker, announced he'll be producing 30,000 bottles of Chianti a year from his Tuscan estate, Il Palagio, near Figline Valdarno. Sting began bottling this new wine in 2007 ... based on the Sangiovese grape with a touch of Cabernet and [...]
So why not serve the same at your Oscar Party! For the 6th year the Academy Awards will pour Sterling Vineyards' specially created wines at the after gala ball with Wolfgang Puck's menu for 1,500 guests and at the evening's pre show reception. VP of winemaking Mike Westrick describes the special line up, "The 2005 [...]
Two years after discovering this remarkable winery and its delicious wines, Siepi from Castello di Fonterutoli still reigns as my favorite red. It was a chance stop on our Autumn 2006 trip to Tuscany ... we were exploring Chianti for several days and still hadn't picked up any olive oil to take home. Thomas Cook's [...]