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Prima Amrita
Prima Amrita

The Green Room tastes like an aggressive amount of raspberry rouge and a standing ovation…

Napa Nostalgia: Ashes & Diamonds Winery
Napa Nostalgia: Ashes & Diamonds Winery

Ashes & Diamonds Winery is giving me all the Mad Men feels (misus the misogony)…

Winner, Winner, Prime Rib Dinner
Winner, Winner, Prime Rib Dinner

I pretend I can cook insta-worthy 5-course meals, but in reality left over Chinese food, Barilla pasta, or just chugging Champagne often constitutes dinner...

Living for DaTerra

These wines are alive; they've got the spunk of Maggie Smith in Downton and the verve of a Bruno Mars video. 

RuPaul's Wine Pairing

Ladies, start your engins, and may the best wine, WIN!

O.G. Napa Valley
O.G. Napa Valley

I have heard “our wines are Old World style” in Napa more times than I’ve heard “I’m here for the right reasons” on the Bachelor...

A LOCAL SOMMELIER'S GUIDE TO NAPA
A LOCAL SOMMELIER'S GUIDE TO NAPA

I wrote about how Napa does Napa over at City Scout Mag...

I Drank A Wine Cooler And I Liked It

Forget slapping the bag: boxed and canned wines are rapidly emerging as an acceptably classy mechanism for insobriety.

Hot Beats - Hot Juice
Hot Beats - Hot Juice

Both are experimental forces to be reckoned with; they confuse and delight the senses with chewy texture, popping floral notes and gritty licks. 

Darling Nikki
Darling Nikki

If this wine could wink at you it would, right after biting its lower lip...

Salty Mermaid Juice
Salty Mermaid Juice

If you too, daydreamed about being Ariel when you were little, pack this wine in a Swell bottle and sip it in the ocean, because this is straight mermaid juice.   

En Garde: I'll Let You Try My Wei Chi Style
En Garde: I'll Let You Try My Wei Chi Style

"Wei Chi" is a Sémillon from Lake County, and what's more gangster than California Sémillon?


 
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The Sea Was Here
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