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12 Wines a Breathing

Ouch...it hurts to see it in print, doesn't it? TWELVE DAYS. As part of our Holiday Survival Guide, the 12 Days Before Christmas series will offer daily tips from now up until Dec. 24th to help you down the homestretch towards a great Christmas (et al) holiday. Look for wine suggestions, expanded gift ideas, beauty tips, cocktail recipes and other great stuff to help this holiday season be the most enjoyable one yet.

Crush Life (and It!) Like a Little Grape.

A few weeks ago I had the good fortune of attending a talk given by Gary Vaynerchuck on Social Media and his new book, "Crush it!". If you aren't familiar with Gary, he's the darling of SM these days, who took his video blog Wine Library TV to monumental heights through...

The Purple Hand Tour–wine tasting during Crush.

Going wine tasting on a sunny, crisp fall day is near perfection, at least in my book. Thanks to crush, there is always a flurry of activity which provides joe-average-wine-drinker opportunity for an inside peek at the behind-the-scenes world of wine making. With the boom of garagiste-type wineries, many of these warehouse wineries are doing their thing right before our very eyes. We did a short purple hand tour out in Woodinville's warehouse district this past weekend and here are a few highlights:

Wine Your Way Through Lake Chelan

...it’s the perfect time to make a pilgrimage east to the latest Washington wine Mecca: the Lake Chelan Valley to do a little fall wine tasting.

How many licks does it take to break a wine bottle?

Twenty-nine (give or take a whack). We’ve all been creative with smuggling a bottle or two of wine in our suitcases before. But there is always that split second of panic when you gather your luggage at baggage claim…did it or didn’t it [make it]? Recently there’s been a few new products on the market to make (wine) suitcase [...]

(Wine)Barrel of Fun

Riddle me this. What do you get when you combine fantastic wine, delicious food, a jivin' band, a fun-spirited crowd and one of Seattle's perfect summer days? Fabwineyumfoodjivincrowdsunnyitus?

DeLille on Main

The other evening I had the very good fortune to participate in a food and wine pairing held at the ever-delicious Bis on Main in Bellevue, with the super yummy wines of DeLille Cellars. If you are curious, here's the complete pairing menu: