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March 31st – April 1st – A Weekend of Wine TastingMarch 19, 2012
The official start to Spring is March 20th, 2012. Every year around this time, there are usually great wine tasting options in and around the Bay Area celebrating various growing regions and our great wine-loving lifestyle. This year is no different, but unfortunately the three major regional events are taking place on the same weekend! [...]
Livermore Valley and The Santa Cruz Mountains: Two Grapegrowing Regions with a Common PastMarch 1, 2012
From a grapegrowing perspective, it could appears that the temperate redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains and the broad, dry flatlands of the Livermore Valley couldn’t be more different. In reality, however, there are many similarities between the two centrally located viticulture areas of the California coast, and those similarities can be traced back [...]
Meetups & Other Social Groups That Connect You to Local WinesFebruary 20, 2012
Do you like to knit, hike, or taste new wines? Do you have a pet duck and want to meet others who have the same? If you answered yes to any of the above and live within a 25 mile radius of Los Gatos, then there is a social group just waiting for you to [...]
Valentine’s Day & Wine – The Various Stages of LoveFebruary 12, 2012
You know it’s coming. Unless you live under a giant rock, there’s no escaping the incessant hum of Valentine’s Day advertisements as you’re subliminally (or not) encouraged to open your wallet – all in the name of “amore”. And you know you can’t just ignore it. Ignoring the most romantic of days, even if in [...]
Stress-Free Tips and Tools to Having a Beautiful Bay Area Wedding with Local WinesJanuary 27, 2012
“Love is blind… but marriage is a real eye opener.” Whoever said that obviously never planned a wedding! They should have said “Love is blind… but planning a wedding is a real migraine producer.” Whether it’s the weeks spent working the invitation list down to a manageable, but still too big of a number, saying [...]
What’s in a Name?October 24, 2011
Welcome back to the FindVino blog. We are very excited to have launched our first deal last week, and boy is it a good one! Sixty percent off the 2006 Clos LaChance Colorful Puffleg Meritage! It’s still running as of the time this article was posted, so be sure to check it out (www.findvino.com). If [...]
Don’t be Afraid to Choose Your Own WineOctober 15, 2011
We’ve all been there. Sitting at a white table cloth restaurant, sinking in your chair as the resident wine guru (sommelier) speaks at you like the principal did in 3rd grade when you got caught pulling Sara Mottla’s pigtail in math class. You’re paralyzed by fear, unable to justify your own position at the table [...]
Building a community….Again!September 21, 2011
It’s hard to imaging life 150 years ago in the Santa Clara and Santa Cruz mountains area. People were living off of the land that they acquired thru the Homestead Act of 1862. Farming, raising livestock and bartering for goods that they could not produce themselves was how life worked. There was a great [...]
Extend the summer feel by attending local Art and Wine FestivalsSeptember 8, 2011
It can be a little depressing. Summer passed too quickly…..again! The kids are back in school, the work grind is back in full swing and the next foreseeable vacation/holiday break is not until Thanksgiving. Looks like it’s time to find a few distractions to help the time pass between breathers. Enter the wonderful world of [...]
And so it begins…..August 30, 2011
One afternoon, my partner John and I were sitting at a wine bar tasting a splendid wine from a far away region, when we came to the realization that we had gotten so hung up on wines from those very well-known and popular, not to mention distant, areas at the expense of missing out on [...]