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Sweet Life ~ Oregon Wine Tour Dinner-Tues, Mar. 30

Sweet Life ~ Oregon Wine Tour Dinner-Tues, Mar. 30

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Event: This is the 18th wine dinner that Stonecrest has presented. An evening of good food paired with wines from Oregon selected and presented by Eric Norviel, with assistance from Roger Strohl, of Vineyard Wine Market .
Where: Stonecrest [...]

Spanish Weekend Tasting-Vineyard-Mar. 26-27

Spanish Weekend Tasting-Vineyard-Mar. 26-27

Event: Spain is the third largest producer of wine in the world and its wines are incredibly diverse. (Also make sure you check out Roger’s annoucement that Gary Player will be in the shop April 10th to sign bottles of his great wines). The most famous region is Rioja. The wines of this region are [...]

New Pinot From Frank Family Scores Big

New Pinot From Frank Family Scores Big

Frank Family Vineyards Napa Valley Pinot Noir 2008
Cost: $33-36

What: This is the first nationally released Pinot Noir for Frank Family Vineyards after several years of offering a reserve Pinot Noir only available at the winery. It’s an outstanding addition to their lineup.
When you pour it the wine shows a beautiful cherry red color. It opens [...]

Auchentoshan Three Wood: A Lowland Standout

Auchentoshan Three Wood: A Lowland Standout

Auchentoshan 3 Wood
What: As long as I have been collecting and enjoying scotch whiskey, I still get a bit confused on the different regions (and sub regions) that Scotland is broken into that defines where a particular scotch comes from. While I agree that there are differences from region to region, I find the [...]

Xplorador Fixed My Passport-Sort of

Xplorador Fixed My Passport-Sort of

Xplorador Carmenere 2008
I am so very proud to announce that I have won the Xplorador Trip to the Chilean Wine Harvest 2010! I won the contest but unfortunately I won’t be going. If you won you had a choice to visit Chile for the 2010 wine harvest or accept $4,000. Due to the recent [...]

Weekend Tasting-Vineyard-Mar. 19-20

Weekend Tasting-Vineyard-Mar. 19-20

Event: Roger says “Deserie Shockley with Ultimate Distributors will present nine wines this weekend. What a great way to celebrate the arrival of spring (at 1:32pm Saturday–during the afternoon tasting session!)  You will get to try a number of wines from different growing regions with the coup d’état coming with the last wine, Obsidian [...]

Drop In Thursday Tasting-Wine World-Mar. 18

Drop In Thursday Tasting-Wine World-Mar. 18

Event: As usual 6 great wines were presented, 3 white and 3 red. Also there were the great Wine World cheeses (listed below).
Where: Wine World, 133 Georgia Ave., North Augusta, SC
803-279-9522
When: Thursday, March 18th, 5 to 8 pm
Cost: $4, with rebate on the purchase of 1 bottle of the featured wines.
Here are [...]

Biltmore Reserve Pinot Is A Hit

Biltmore Reserve Pinot Is A Hit

Biltmore Reserve Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley 2008
Cost: $24-26
What: Biltmore’s reserve program is designed to bring in grapes from quality vineyards in premium wine regions. The wines then are crafted to reflect the region from which they came. Biltmore certainly has succeeded with this Reserve Pinot Noir.
The Russian River Valley produces some [...]

Green Umbrellas and Green Beer

Green Umbrellas and Green Beer

Event: St. Patty’s Day will be celebrated come rain or shine. Sunshine would have been preferred but Mother Nature didn’t provide much of that today as Augusta celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with their annual parade. Store awnings were very popular as a steady drizzle came down for most of the parade. [...]

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