by Eve Bushman | Mar 19, 2020 | Eve's Wine 101 |
Thacher Winery Described as a “boutique” winery, with an emphasis on two of my favorites: Rhone blends and Zinfandel. We found that they are one of the few wineries not pulling out their Zinfandel vines, are “the poster child for lower alcohol wines”, and “they let...
by Eve Bushman | Jan 20, 2020 | Eve's Wine 101 |
With whisky – single malt Scotch whisky, single malt whisky from outside of Scotland, blended whisky, rye and bourbon whiskey – quickly becoming the most popular category I thought it was high time that I reached out to some local restaurants to find out what they’re...
by Eve Bushman | Nov 25, 2019 | Eve's Wine 101 |
Joseph Phelps Insignia Event, Beringer Veranda, Alpha Omega Terrace, Caldwell Cave, Knights Bridge Vault + Shout Outs We try to visit Napa Valley every other year to discover new places and to enjoy club member events – and now both seem to last a lot longer. Gone are...
by Eve Bushman | Sep 23, 2019 | Eve's Wine 101 |
We don’t know why we never visited Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone, but when we read that Doug Margerum of Margerum Wine Company was opening a tasting room there, joining quite a few other wineries and wine bars, we decided to take a couple of days, to check it out. Winery...
by Eve Bushman | Jul 19, 2019 | Great Escape |
When I was invited to visit a winery in Spain, I didn’t hesitate. Why travel thousands of miles for one winery? Because Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine isn’t just a winery. Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine also operates a top hotel that used to be an abbey, dating back centuries....
by Eve Bushman | May 24, 2019 | Eve's Wine 101 |
I’m one of those cruise ship vacationers that can hardly wait to see the next day’s itinerary slipped under my door at night. Literally plan my day by it. And it seemed to me that there is always a wine tasting or cocktail class offered, as well as the usual...
by Eve Bushman | Mar 25, 2019 | Eve's Wine 101 |
In 2011, I penned the “Benefits of Moderate Drinking,” for élite Magazine, quoting the internationally recognized source Wine and Spirits Education Trust, the American Cancer Society and a local nutritionist. So this time, as I have a few years under my (wine) belt,...
by Eve Bushman | Jan 31, 2019 | Eve's Wine 101 |
For this issue, hitting your mailbox before Valentine’s Day, I thought of the many romanticized reasons why we may have a love for certain wines. We all know that taste is the most important, but what makes a particular wine really stand out in our memory? One...
by Eve Bushman | Nov 26, 2018 | Eve's Wine 101 |
According to Wikipedia and other Google sources, a “SuperTaster” is defined as, “a person who experiences the sense of taste with far greater intensity than average. Women are more likely to be supertasters as are individuals of Asian, African and South American...
by Eve Bushman | Sep 24, 2018 | Eve's Wine 101 |
What bothers me the most about people in the wine industry: those that choose to do a disservice by intentionally talking above someone’s head and/or being in any way snobbish – perceived or real – by others. As a novice once myself I was stopped dead in my tracks –...
by Eve Bushman | Jul 23, 2018 | Eve's Wine 101 |
Rosé is so wildly popular right now, almost reminds me of when White Zinfandel made wine drinkers out of many, but the flavor profile is a bit different. It’s not just made from the Zinfandel grape, but instead it could be made from your favorite red varietal that...
by Eve Bushman | May 18, 2018 | Eve's Wine 101 |
With the fires and extreme heat we’ve experienced here and read about in wine country, many people worry about how our next vintages of wine will do. They wonder, in particular, how extreme weather conditions affect our wine. For answers I reached out to local...
