This weekend a friend RT’d on twitter an article called “Are wine bloggers only telling half the story” by Duane Pemberton. As friends we have discussed this very subject. Her blog reviews wines; I mostly write about my experience at the winery and the wines. She is honest, upfront about the review of wines. I [...]
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Should Wine Bloggers Tell the Whole Truth?
Posted by Trails to Wine on August 30th, 2010
Posted in General Wine Topics 
Tags: bloggers, chardonnay, free wine, grapes, pinot noir, twitter wine, viognier, wine blog, wine bloggers, wine bottle, wine labels, wine review, winery 
No Comments »Sniff a Glass of Wine to Good Health
Posted by Trails to Wine on June 20th, 2010
What could be more natural than breathing? You might be amazed to learn that most people don’t know that breathing — an act that we do some 20,000 times each day — can deeply influence your health and happiness on many levels. Some proponents of deep breathing recognize the connection between stress and breathing as [...]
Posted in General Wine Topics Tags: aerator, breath, breathing, Central Coast, chardonnay, cholesterol, decanting, Dr. Weil, grapes, health, pinot noir, riverbend winery, Saddlerock, sniff, swirl, taste, viognier, white wine, wine, wine aerator, wine bottle, wine labels, winery No Comments »Disney’s Food and Wine from Malibu to the Russian River
Posted by Trails to Wine on May 11th, 2010
Disney’s California Adventure is hosting their annual Food and Wine Festival to the end of May. Various wineries have scheduled seminars which include wine tasting. Hopping in my car I took a trek down to Disneyland to see what was happening. Heading over to the wine tasting area there were two wine seminars which interested [...]
Posted in Tasting Rooms, Wines Tags: Central Coast, Electrical Parade, grapes, Malibu, Malibu Family Wines, pinot noir, Richard de los Reyes, Riverbench, riverbend winery, Row Eleven, russian river, Saddlerock, San Francisco Chronicle, Tami Semler, viognier, Walt Disney, wine bottle, wine labels, winery No Comments »The Awful Truth About Chardonnay
Posted by Trails to Wine on April 26th, 2010
When I first started going out with the girls, I didn’t know what to order. I followed along and ordered Chardonnay wine. Sting, burn and bite hit my palate like a bomb. After a couple of glasses the taste was barely noticeable. Over time I began to discover other drinks, Margaritas, Harvey Wallbangers, etc. Anything [...]
Posted in Adventures in Wine Tags: Cambria Winery, chardonnay, grapes, pinot noir, white wine, wine, wine bottle, winery No Comments »King of the Wild Vineyards
Posted by Trails to Wine on March 24th, 2010
A few days ago Fess Parker of Walt Disney’s Davey Crockett and NBC’s Daniel Boone fame passed away in Los Olivos, CA. Fess Parker was an icon to many baby boomers in the 50′s and a true Disney Legend who was so honored in 1991. Growing up in the 1950′s one Christmas I wanted a [...]
