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Day Trip 2 – Northern Rhone
So I had downloaded these maps from the Official Tourism Site of the Vineyards of the Rhone Valley, and I was hoping that they would lead me to the cool and groovy places to check out in the Rhone...
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Day Trip 4 – Chateauneuf du Pape
For those that are counting, the trip to Chamonix was Day Trip 3, I just forgot to include that in the title. This really is Day Trip 4 and it was the longest journey by car that we took the entire...
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Kendall Jackson Avant Chardonnay 2009
I was kind of surprised to see that I haven’t made a post since before Christmas. Of course the holiday takes a bit of a toll on my available time. But what has been eating up all my free bandwidth is...
View ArticlePlease welcome Suzie Linville and Lisa Comento to At Least I’m Enjoying the...
What a week! We've added not one, but three new authors to the mix. Please join me in welcoming both Suzie Linville and Lisa Comento to the authors here at At Least I’m Enjoying the Ride! Both ladies...
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Fabbioli Cellars Paco Rojo 2010
By now, some of you may be aware that Fabbioli Cellars has released a new wine entitled Paco Rojo. There are multiple little stories behind this wine but I’ll share a bit of the back story with you...
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2012 Virginia Cabernet Franc Bracket Challenge – Part 1
About a month ago, I was contacted by Beltway Bacchus, a blogger here in Northern Virginia, about a project he had worked on last year called the Virginia Wine Bracket Challenge. I had read about it...
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The PlayersWe thought it would be a good idea to limit the possible field of wines for this event right at the beginning. After all, Cabernet Franc may be the single most widely planted grape in the...
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The stage is set, the band starts playing Suddenly your heart is pounding Wishing secretly you were a star. -Styx, The Grand Illusion Each wine was assigned a random...
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2012 Virginia Cabernet Franc Bracket Challenge – Part 4
After the first round was complete, we took the time to assess which seeds were winners and which ones were losers, but none of the wines were revealed yet. That could potentially taint the results as...
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Bleu Cheese, Date and Walnut Cheese Ball
Every month I develop a new recipe for pairing with the featured wine at Fabbioli Cellars. Sometimes the recipe has the wine in it, but mostly it is about the pairing and how the food and wine best...
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Life in a Tasting Room
I am frequently asked what it’s like to work in a tasting room at a winery or just as often, how does one become a person that does this. The easy answer is usually a bit of desire and the willingness...
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The Tasting Room
It has been my observation that tasting rooms fall into one of two categories, they were either built specifically as a tasting room or they were a pre-existing building on the property that was...
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Wine Tasting Styles
I can still remember the very first wine tasting I ever participated in. It was at a winery in the Finger Lakes region of New York near Canandaigua Lake. It was during a family vacation to Niagara...
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32nd Annual Vintage Virginia Wine Festival – Preparation
On June 1st and 2nd this year, the 32nd Annual Vintage Virginia Wine Festival was held at Bull Run Special Events Center in Centreville, Virginia. I was very proud to be selected to do the wine...
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32nd Annual Vintage Virginia Wine Festival – Presentation
Yesterday I spoke about how I went about choosing the wines I did for the celebrity chef pairings at the Vintage Virginia wine Festival this past year. Today I’m going to talk about what wines I...
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