Farmer Fizz and Farmer Food #Winophiles
Important Champagne Advice: FaRMer Fizz – When you’re in the wine shop and you can’t remember the secret code, think: RM puts the faRMer in faRMer fizz. French #Winophiles Celebrate Champagne! Thanks to some excellent planning on Christy Majors‘ part, our French #Winophiles blogging group is exploring the Champagne region during the celebration-heavy month of … Continue reading
Our Saber Crisis #MWWC18
Monthly Wine Writing Challenge 18 #MWWC18 After several months away, I’m jumping back into the game with the Monthly Wine Writing Challenge group. The premise is simple: a friendly challenge among the group to write on the topic for the month. Votes are tallied (remember, no wagering) and a winner emerges. The winner chooses the … Continue reading
Sparkling New Years!
Going out for New Years? Stopping by the liquor store / wine shop / grocery store for a bottle on the way? Here’s a last minute primer on picking up your sparkling wine. Champagne Champagne producers in France want you to know: It’s only Champagne if it’s produced from the Champagne region in France. Champagne … Continue reading
Holiday Oysters & Champagne
Do you have a Christmas Day tradition? After all the pre-Christmas family events, our usual Christmas day is easy and unstructured. During a visit to the Walrus and the Carpenter in Seattle over Thanksgiving, we found our young adult children both liked oysters on the half shell. A new Christmas tradition is born: Oysters and … Continue reading
#ChampagneDay 2013
We have fun celebrating these internet based theme days for various wines. One of our favorites is #ChampagneDay because it’s a great excuse to make the day an occasion. It appears that #ChampagneDay is the last Friday in October, because it was also on a Friday last year. Wow, just like Thanksgiving and Easter! Anyway, … Continue reading
Champagne Stopper: These Things Work!
Just a quick post tonight. Get a Champagne stopper, they actually work. Note: this post should not be confused with another post I need to write: “Aerators: a Waste of Money!” We don’t usually need a stopper, as we rarely fail to finish a bottle of sparkling wine. Somehow, they just seem to disappear. Occasionally, … Continue reading
Champagne Season
Every year at this time, Surdyk’s has one or two “bubbly” tasting nights. They have local wine distributors hosting tables with a variety of sparkling wines, all at sale pricing. We have embraced sparkling wines this year as a nice part of almost any gathering. One of our local distributors, The Wine Company, has really … Continue reading
#ChampagneDay: Domaine Chartogne-Taillet & Oysters!
Champagne Day is one of those made-up holidays; on October 26 people around the world open a bottle of champagne (only the real stuff) and tweet about their experiences. I didn’t even know it was #ChampagneDay last Friday until I saw a tweet about it mid-day. After a busy work week, we grabbed the opportunity … Continue reading
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