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Last week I attended the sneak peek wine tasting hosted at 18 Reasons for Bi-Rite Market, which has a twice-yearly wine blitz – 20% off cases. Yeah, BiRite! Normally I am pouring wine as an 18 Reasons volunteer but this … Continue reading →

Hi everyone, a time for passages and transitions. My mom passed away. I wrote about her on my Fearless Women blog Then I realized that there is one thing we know about life: it goes on. And that bring me … Continue reading →

Take two wine geek stripes off my shoulder pad; I went to a tasting without my note book. Also, I thought I had to take home a list of wines offered but my husband swears the woman at the cash … Continue reading →

Muscadet tasting the other night at 18 Reasons was enlightening and enlivening. I was volunteering but had the pleasure of tasting 9 Muscadets from the Loire Valley. Let me stop before I begin to wax poetic about the joys of … Continue reading →

This evening the fun in the glass was Chateau Berliquet 2000 Saint-Emilion Grand Cru. Now about expectations: it was a Right Bank Bordeaux and so dominated by Merlot but from a heralded vintage. I had hoped for “wow” but for … Continue reading →

Yesterday I tasted an array of Portuguese wines that were all priced under $20 (tasting price). So what did I find out? Portuguese wines, though still value-priced, are no longer totally undiscovered and undervalued and so prices are rising. But good … Continue reading →

Summer in San Francisco is brutal – ‘nuff said. I was looking for warmth and sun last Sunday and a short drive to it. Weather.com says Livermore is going to be 85 degrees. I am so there. And while enjoying the … Continue reading →