The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is a big deal for a lot of reasons. It’s well-known as the biggest travel day of the year and the biggest grocery shopping day of the year. And, after all that travel and cooking we are all too tired to make dinner, so it’s also the busiest pizza delivery night of the year. Since this holiday should be about fun and enjoyment, here are a few hand-picked wines that will bail you out of the...

For the upcoming three-day weekend, most people are making plans to head out of town. As it’s the last unofficial weekend of Summer, many of those plans include camping in the great outdoors. I think camping is such a funny American pastime. Instead of truly enjoying our natural surroundings, most of us try to pack as many comforts of home as we can into the car and pretend we are roughing it. Though I do enjoy more rustic backpacking and...

My mother and grandma taught me pretty much everything I know. I have them both to thank for so much, with the exception of my nearly life-long fear of rosé wines. Growing up in a family that loves wine – but with an equal-opportunity, anything-goes sort of love – meant that my experience with drinking pinks was limited to those that came from Sutter Home or Franzia (no offense). Don’t make me recount the horrific...

Though wine is my obsession, food is also a passion for me and I love to experiment with how the two can work together. I’ve been a lifelong cook, but recently food has stepped up another notch. Several months ago, I was diagnosed with Celiac disease which means no more gluten in my life. After three days of freaking out, I decided to look at the glass half-full again and embrace a new way of cooking and living. This was a painful, albeit...

The French really have it figured out. Just when I think they couldn’t get any cooler, I stumble upon a new find that blows my mind all over again. Imagine this. Take the essence of the most complex white French wine you’ve ever tasted (such as a White Bordeaux) and reduce it down to a rich, citrus and floral-perfumed elixir. Think syrupy rich. Now put it in an amazingly beautiful bottle, fit for a Parisian, and call it St....