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Easy Like Sunday - for Moki It may look like I'm just taking it easy ... But what I'm really doing is focusing, meditating, purring, purraying and sending positive healing thoughts to our dear friend Moki . Moki has a terrible urinary tract infection and he may not recover. We just can't let that happen, so everyone please send all your most heartfelt purrs & purrayers to Moki, Mom Crystal and Orange Boy. And don't forget, our sale to help both Moki and Criz ends tonight at midnight so you can still get
This Kitty Deserves a Wine Rack Store Celebration In honor of the once lost but now found black kitty of California, I hereby announce an imaginary Wine Rack Store party for everyone. It?s conceptual since there isn?t time at this particular moment; I?m still trying to prevent my overworked brain from exploding. One way I try to sooth my dreary neurons is by grabbing a chilled bottle of wine off a graceful metal wine rack and decorating my glass with a precious Here Kitty charm. Reading the heartwarming story of the black cat that was finally
A Charmed Life - A Sneak Peek! business, ?A Charmed Life?, officially debuts tomorrow!! My beverage charms, wine stoppers, and cell phone charms go on sale tomorrow at Amy?s Confection Company. Amy?s is located inside Shops of Steele Street at 102 South Steele Street. You can read about all the wonderful things Amy will be offering at her Holiday Open House (tomorrow and Sunday) on her blog. You won?t want to miss this event! My website is not complete (I have been too busy making charms!) but you can preview it at http
Put cats on your table and help kitties in need! I'm overturning that rule about "No cats on the table!" ..... I made my human artists come up with a way to permit cats on your dinner table ... and help some kitties with their vet bills, too! We're having a special sale on our new cat charm Napkin Rings and Wine Glass Charms , and ... 20% of all proceeds will go to Criz and Moki . I made my artists design lots of them in Thanksgiving and Christmas colors so you can adorn your holiday table with ...
VI Headliner - Photo Jewelry Making - Sponsor Feature Some of the best gifts come from those made by your hands. Today's VI Headliner Photo Jewelry Making has all the supplies you need to create something special for everyone on your list. One of my favorite items are these Photo Wine Charms. Set your holiday table with a special wine glass charm serving as a place card. Use a photo of the person, their name, a special image or memory to make each charm special. These will also work on long stem water glasses for those who don't drink wine
A WRS Member and Her Favorite Blind Stylist Say what? Well, the title might be a bit of an exaggeration. My stylist, Robbi, isn?t exactly blind but pretty close to it. She had lasik surgery around three weeks ago and still hasn?t recovered fully. While she?s still quite worried about her vision, she has the best sense of humor about it. Robbi is also still able to do a fantastic job weaving highlights throughout my head, the shades are eerily similar to the fabulous stain options here at Wine Rack Store. It was a great relief to have a f
Changing Directions to Duffy OK - I have just discovered a new singer that I can?t seem to get out of my head. My partner Shannon brought her to light for me. If you like music for purity, simplicity and just because it?s f~n good. Then check out DUFFY she is a 24yo going on 200. This lady sings with soul, old 60?s charm and the deep blues that just won?t let you go. I normally don?t do this, but I think this one is fantastic!!! Check out her Album ?Rockferry? grab your Wine, Beer, Hot tub or Hot bath and enjoy.
Best Selling Wine Accessories Wineware?s Top 10 Online Best Selling Products for September 2008 First and foremost, apologies for the delay in producing the Top Ten Best Selling Products for September, been a bit busier with other things in the office! A recent upturn in sales of Wine Glass Charms makes these the best selling product of the month online, closely followed by the new Kimco 12-Bottle Wine StackRack? and the 4 Bottle additional layer. As usual, the Riedel Glass Cleaning Balls are present in the Top 10, as well
Grab a Glass of Wine and Watch the VP Debate Tonight! Is the world ending or what? There are bears roaming the subway, images of the Virgin Mary showing up in hospital windows, the economy is tanking, and my car is on the doorsteps of Death. While this chaos circulates around me like a mad atomic valence of unstable electrons, I?ve decided to focus on the priorities in life?playing the ultimate drinking contest while watching the VP debate! Yeah! Now, here are my rules: take a generous swig of your favorite vino adorned with a Biblical Stories cha
Wine Rack Store Doggy Disaster Last night Zoe, a doggy employee of the best sorts, got in a fight with a weed-whacker. Unfortunately for Zo-Zo, the weed-whacker won the challenge. After a trip to the emergency vet and some surgery, Zoe seems to be doing just fine although she has two less toes than she started the day with. To thank the vets who worked on her through the night, we gave them a nice bottle of wine and, of course, some doctor wine charm sets from the Wine Rack Store. Seems to me that since Zoe has plenty of
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Wine Rack Store Friends and Family BBQ This past Saturday was full of wine, friends, family, and animals. This BBQ at the Wine Rack Store gave us the opportunity to share recent Dominican Republic vacation stories (or lack thereof in my case). This was also the first time my son was introduced to the wine rack loving clan, and he left behind beautiful chalk drawings all over the driveway which I imagine the family is still admiring. I?m hoping that is the only ?mess? he left behind! My five year old enjoyed the dogs for awhile, but
How to Charm Me Tell me Henry ?is soooooo cute, Mom. I want us to have another baby in our family.? And then, a few days later, tell me that when you are a ?big man? you want to ?get married when Henry gets married, so you can always live together.? ?William, age FOUR IN JUST SIX DAYS as he would tell you These little gems tide me over when I hear the usual din, like, ?Moooooooom, Henry isn?t sharing!? and ?Moooooooom! Henry pulled my hair!?
Rattlesnake Charm Check out the song ?Rattlesnake Charm? by Sean Hayes. It is on iTunes. I have it on repeat. And ?Sleeping Diagonally? by Iron & Wine from this funny compilation called ?Slaying Since 1996. My cousin Andrew is in town, he arrived by Greyhound last night. Today we adventure. Check those songs out though.
Promotional Item: Wine/Bottle Charms I ran across this tutorial for making your own wine charms and realized that with some creativity, they would make great promotional items such as bottle charms for your B&B bottles, fun and reusable hang tags and custom candle charms too! You can purchase Ink Jet Shrink Film at many stores near you, including Joann?s Fabric Stores and Hobby Lobby. Just print the image you want to use for your charm, cut it out and shrink in the oven. Use this tutorial created by Crafty Daisies to do the
Petite Merlot Wine Glass Gel Candle with Heart Charm The Petite Merlot wine gel glass candle has a harvest grape scent, features lovely translucent gel, and is adorned with a heart charm and elegant satin ribbon. Real glass candle is presented in a clear display gift box with wine and grape illustrations. Candle itself measures 4? tall x 2? wide and the gift box measures 4.5? x 2.5?. Quantity discount is available. USD 3.84 | Candle Wedding Favors | Read more...
Wine Fore Me! Recently I had decided to take up golf with my husband. Saying that, let me assure you that we aren?t good and quickly gave it up. This new hobby idea of ours came from a friend of ours whom we met while he was purchasing a wine rack from Wine Rack Store. He goes with his dad and brother about once a month and told us how much fun he had so we decided to give it a whirl. Taking his high recommendations of the sport into account, we bought ourselves some new clubs and went for it. To say the lea
Denise?s Birthday Is Today. We Will Use The Wine Glass Charms Tonight. There is nothing like a birthday to bring the party animals out. People have been calling today wondering when they should come over for the celebration. We could have maybe 20 close friends here tonight. Many of them will be drinking wine. The obvious question is how do our guests keep their glasses separate from all the others. You know the answer. The solution is truly elegant. We break out the very high quality wine charms for them to attach to their glasses. Simple and they get to choose t
Le charm discret de la bourgeoisie How good is your blog? A question, just now, not thrown at me personally but an all round one. Let?s not delude ourselves: The answer, in most cases, is a word starting with s and ending with e. And before there is a bust up in my inbox, yes, I do include myself. In fact, every time I hit the ?publish? button I am immediately disenchanted with myself. So, evidently, the only way is to go down - until you hit rock bottom. One of my friends, the one who gives me more heartache than the rest of yo
I purchased the book and wine on the same day. I think the wine will appeal to most, while the book is likely to have a far narrower audience. Charcuterie (by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn) is 300 plus pages of meat, salt and smoke. I plan to start with the bacon before moving on to the pancetta. . .
Friendly is the middle of three Grüners (Singing and Charming being the other two) made by Laurenz Five. It's very good. Light, textured and mineral, it smells of flint (sulphur) and river stones coated in honey and lemon juice. Clear and persistent with pear skin and sherbet flavours rimmed by gripping texture and flesh.
The French wine appellation of Gigondas tends to get overshadowed by its flashy and better-known cousin, Chateauneuf du Pape. However, the smooth red wines of this Rhone Valley region have a charm and complexity all of their own. Like Chateauneuf, they are made with primarily Grenache grapes, but the similarity ends there as James Molesworth of "Wine Spectator" magazine illustrates in the video below:
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The French wine appellation of Gigondas tends to get overshadowed by its flashy and better-known cousin, Chateauneuf du Pape. However, the smooth red wines of this Rhone Valley region have a charm and complexity all of their own. Like Chateauneuf, they are made with primarily Grenache grapes, but the similarity ends there as James Molesworth of "Wine Spectator" magazine illustrates in the video below:
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For those looking for an unusual sweet treat, I highly recommend looking for a bottle of Serbian Bermet. Ok, chances are you won't find it in the US, but if you do stumble across it, or there is a trip to Belgrade in your future, you have to give it a try.
This is an infused wine. It has spices and herbs added to it. Technically you could call it a Vermouth, but the style is not similar to traditional Vermouths. However as with Vermouth it also comes in red or white versions.
No two producers make exactly the same wine, so I can't give you a definitive idea of what it taste like, but the red I tried was heavily spiced with cinnamon and cloves and tasted almost like cherry pie. It was served at room temperature to us, but it would probably make a nice hot wine as well.
The white version was similar but with a noticeable vanilla character. This one I would stick with serving chilled, but who knows? Perhaps reduced it could make the basis for a great sauce.
This is no wimpy wine. The strong spice flavors and abundant alcohol (16% is common) help make a little Bermet go a long way. Still, we had no problem finishing one of the red versions off while watching the strollers pass by in the heat of the noon day sun.
I am not known for espousing the virtues of flavored wines, but variety is part of wines charm, and this one is definitely different. A charming change of pace, although I don't know that I would make it a regular part of my routine.
I thought the food was of a high standard with good use of fresh ingredients and I felt like it was good value for the money (ended up around $75 a head for food, corkage and tip). We needed to take care with some of the dishes and the spice clashing with the wines (the Hokkien noodles especially!) but it was manageable. We had the table for 6-8 people that you can book, any more than 6 people and I think it would have been too squished.
The food was as follows:
Steamed Prawn Wontons with Organic Brown Rice Vinegar Dressing Steamed Scallop Wontons with Sichuan Chilli Oil Homestyle Fried Biodynamic Eggs with Organic Soy & Homemade XO Sung Choi Bao of Free-Range ‘Kurobuta’ Pork, Ginger & Mushrooms
Crispy-Skin Duck White-Cooked Free-Range Chicken with Shoyu Organic Soy, Chilli & Coriander Red-Braised Pork Belly served with Fennel & Leek Dry-Fried Organic Hokkien Noodles with Homemade XO Sauce Dry-Fried Green Beans with Organic Miso Paste & Garlic
Organic Steamed and Fried Rice
The wines were;
1995 Jacquesson Signature Grand Vin: The nose is bready, with lemons and green apples coming through. Youthful and taut on the palate with lemony acid at the fore. Very good, and it should get better as it unwinds over the next 7-10+ years. 90/100
2002 Marcel Deiss Altenberg de Bergheim GC Alsace: Nutty, orange peel, peach, smoke and floral notes. Richly fruited with opulent weight. Balanced palate, with the acidity holding up to the residual sugar and fruit sweetness. Finishes long and clean. Was a superb match with the slightly spicy Asian food being consumed. 94/100
1996 Zind Humbrecht Riesling Rangen de Thann Clos St Urbain: Light citrus, minerals and a touch of candy on the nose. The palate is incredibly austere. The length is good, but with the acid dominating the palate, it was not very enjoyable. 85/100
2000 Bonneau du Martray Corton Charlemagne: Cashew nuts, smoke, graphite and chalky aromas comprise the nose. Lovely richness to the fruit on the palate. Balanced, long and very, very tasty. This is a beautiful wine that will only get better as it develops over the next 8-10 years. 93/100
2000 Fourrier Clos St Jacques: Earth and game meat aromas on the nose. Nicely balanced and textured on the palate. Seems to be in a pretty approachable place at the moment, although it is lacking some depth. 90/100
2004 Dugat-Py Charmes Chambertin: Forward, interesting nose of green beans, tobacco leaf, spice, blackcurrant and cherry aromas. The palate shows some green, slightly under ripe tannins. Good length, but the green elements distract from the experience. 88/100
2006 Hillcrest Reserve Pinot Noir: Cherry, floral, earth and spice aromas on the nose. Excellent layers and balance to the palate. Sweet fruit provides good weight and the tannins and acid provide great structure. A wine of obviously high quality and I think it will develop well in the bottle over the next 5-10 years. 92/100
1986 Chateau L’Eglise Clinet: Savoury aromas of game, smoke and tobacco - with some time the aromas became more bretty and animal like and a bit overpowering. Palate was smooth, medium bodied and well resolved. Best on pouring, the brett coming forward was a shame but it was still quite nice overall. 89/100
1997 Castelgiocondo Brunello di Montalcino Riserva: Complex nose of floral notes with tar, liquorice, blackcurrant and cherry. Well structured and balanced palate, with the bold, deep set fruit balanced well with the medium intensity tannins and well integrated acidity. Delicious. 92/100
NV Campbells Merchant Prince Rare Muscat: Maple syrup, caramel, coconut, brown sugar and raisin aromas on the complex, layered nose. Palate is superb - balanced, complex, delicious and brilliantly long. Technically and tactically world class. 97/100
Many people would be able to identify a bottle of wine that was truly faulty and, in a restaurant, ask for a replacement. But would you be able to tell what the fault was or what to blame for it? It is all to do with perception threshold. Different faults require different parts per thousand or even million to be perceived.
Some people are more sensitive to certain faults than others so while the host, who may taste the wine as it is brought to the table, is happily quaffing, one or more guests could be secretively retching into their napkins. Depending on how well you know your host and judging, diplomatically, how much of an ego dent your comments could produce, it might be worth discreetly asking people to have another careful sniff.
At a wine faults workshop this week, it was made clear that a fault is only a fault if the people drinking the wine consider it to be. For example the "fault" brett - produced from brettanomyces yeast acting on the phenolic acids of the grape - is a characteristic that some tasters love and some winemakers deliberately introduce. It can produce strong animal characteristics that enhance a wine's complexity and increases some people's pleasure.
Of course it is very important to get the balance right because the smallest increase tips a wine over from animal (yum) to bretty (yuck). And even in the lower doses some people adore the fragrant pong while others will recoil in horror at the filthy stench. Perception is all.
Then there is actual corkiness. Produced by TCA, TBA and TeCA it has various origins like the high levels of chlorine used to clean the winery and equipment, the breakdown of other cleaning agents by funghi in the winery - low ventilation and high humidity contibuting to high levels in the atmosphere.
The cork industry is keen to point out that it is not something inherently present in the corks more of a contamination at the winery. The plastic in alternative closure linings etc are equally susceptible to this contamination. With increased awareness, far higher standards of hygiene than ever before and alternative cleaning solutions available the problem should be getting better. However despite some high profile cases in California back in 2004, there are still many wineries taking the easy option and continuing bad practices.
At the other end is a sulfide problem that produces a tomato, truffle, cabbage, rubber character. This is reduction, the opposite of oxidation and the result of a complete seal which prevents any movement of oxygen into the wine. Unlike oxidation though, this can be corrected sometimes as simply as swirling the wine in the glass or decanting the bottle thereby allowing some air contact and dissipating the bad aromas.
This problem has been most associated with screwcaps which provide such an affective seal that all the positive benefits of cork permeability have been lost alongside the problems that can occur for freshness through excessive permeability.
New Zealand wineries have famously chosen to address this by slightly oxidising the wine before bottling in order to achieve balance once the wine is in bottle. As is often the case with the New World, they are quick to respond to problems and criticism.
However this is a dangerous and nervy solution and not always successful. Pascal Chatonnet, leading faults scientist, oenologist and consultant to wineries all over the world, argues that some of the essential character and originality is lost through this process and the overall quality and elegance is compromised, though this is not necessarily understood by the consumer as the original wine is not available to compare.
What is important to the cork industry is that while a consumer might recognise the wine is faulty, the only real language employed to describe or attribute the fault invokes cork. This is of major concern and is where the charm offensive needs to conentrate, for cork may not have played any part whatsoever.
For consumers the challenge to the industry as a whole is to find a closure with the correct level of permeability and which is kept free of contamination. It is in everybody's interests and with a more frank discussion opening up we can only hope that solutions won't be too far away.
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As Seen on Ellens 12 Days of Giveaways & Good Morning America The pocket-size electronic talking Wine Master offers a sleek and slim design easy control panel and over 10 000 wine and spirits reviews ratings and suggested retail prices at your fingertips. The newest version of the Wine Master is the most essential wine tool you can own. Bring along with you to wine shops and restaurants and never make another wine buying mistake again. Requires 2-AAA batteries (not included). Over 10 000 wine and spirits reviews ratings (100 pt. scale) and suggested retail prices from Wine Enthusiast Magazine Food and wine pairing guide Digital display screen with back-light and compressed text functions Talking navigation with on/off Type Varietal Winery or Vintage search option Handsome non-zipper black case Wine Master is a mighty wizard that gives you mastery over the most serious wine shop clerks and sommeliers. Brushed aluminum with chrome accents. The Wine Enthusiast 2008 Wine Buying Guide is also available. Size: 4-3/4'H x 3'W NOTE: The information included in the Wine Master is based on the reviews and ratings conducted by The Wine Enthusiast Magazine. For the 2008 edition we added 10 425 reviews. Therefore if you look at a review of a 2002 Caymus in 2007 and in 2008 the review will be the same. Since we cannot review all the wines produced in a year some wines may not appear with a newer year review which does not mean that the wine is discontinued but just that particular vintage (year) was not reviewed.
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Aerates wine faster with an extra-wide base. The Riedel Ultra Wine Decanter offers a modern design in crystal while creating maximum breathing room for your wine. Made of 24% lead crystal the wine decanter has a broad base that allows the wine to aerate and release flavors and aromas which enhance the attributes of your wine. Decanting wines (particularly old wines) just before serving ensures clarity and true color while preventing any sediments from interfering with the wine-drinking experience. Decanting young wines gives it a chance to open up and tame overpowering tannins and fruit flavors. Pair the Riedel Ultra Wine Decanter with our large wine decanter glass stopper. Size: 8-3/8'H 45-3/8 oz.
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