End of summer impromptu wine & steak night at friend's house
Is there anything better than dinner & wine at a friend's house? If there is, it's hard to remember what it could be when you are there. It really is the essence of fun and the good life.A couple...
View ArticleExperience
In recent weeks and maybe even months, it has occurred to me that I suddenly have come to be regarded as having experience, in the wine business, that is.How did that happen? In a blink of an eye, I...
View ArticleVegas then, Vegas Now
About a month ago, my husband and I went to Vegas for a weekend to meet friends and partake in a hockey tradition called Frozen Fury. It's a pre-season game between the Los Angeles Kings and the...
View ArticleProhibition
I'm on a 10-day course of antibiotics, and have taken myself off all alcohol. And prior to starting the antibiotic, I had not been feeling great (little did I know I had pneumonia). So there were...
View ArticleWhere I don't see going to have a glass of wine
So funny thing... this week, as I started to feel better, my car died. My trusty little green Honda Civic finally decided to quit. On a Tuesday. Were there any signs? Only 30 minutes before it died did...
View ArticleGoodbye, car; hello, holiday season
One thing doesn't have anything to do with another, except that both happened this weekend. I had to say goodbye to my loyal car of more than 10 years, the car that has gotten me to many a place and...
View ArticleHappy Friday
It was a long week with a lot going on, but it ended up being a good, productive one. So what better way to celebrate than to make a great meal at home? And open some decent wines to wash the food...
View ArticleGermany Version 4.0 - coming soon
So the annual Rudi Wiest corporate trip has been booked for January 2011, a mere 2 months away. 10 days in Germany, plus two days of flying, during which I will unfortunately miss my husband's...
View ArticleGerman wines aren't sticky, the notions are
"German wines really haven't taken off in the United States," an elderly gentleman firmly announced at the last social wine tasting I attended in Orange County. He was a man with solid beliefs, beliefs...
View ArticleShowing my German roots
Either I don't have a good memory of cold weather in Southern California, or this has been one of the coldest Novembers I have experienced here. Cold weather with sunshine - not a bad combination -...
View ArticleIt's time for Christmas Beers
December is here, and it's time for Christmas beers, if you like gently spiced Belgian ales with that nice roundness in the mouth, richness on the palate, and a hint of Christmassy spice that makes...
View ArticleThe holidays, from the wine distribution side
The holiday season, from the wine retail side, is one hectic long unending month of working from morning till night filling orders. One feels like one of Santa's elves. Everyone needs to shop and gifts...
View ArticleAmazing Multi-Course Dinner at Matt & Cheryl's House - w/German Riesling & an...
About a month ago, Johan and I accepted an invitation to a dinner in the home of Matt and Cheryl.We met Matt and Cheryl just recently, when they invited us to their wine tasting group, where we tasted...
View Article2010 Wine Year in Review
It's that time of year to reflect on the year that will soon be in the history books. Not only that, it feels like a decade has just gone by, in the snap of a finger and a thumb, awfully quickly.In an...
View ArticleYoung Bordeaux
Among the wines consumed over the Christmas and New Years holiday season was this one: 2001 Calon-Segur from Saint-Estephe, Bordeaux, France. I acquired this fun wine from my friend Adam Zuckert who...
View ArticleChampagne, Caviar, and Old Red Wines, Oh My!
Last month, during the holiday season, I had the good fortune to be a part of a our wine tasting group's annual Champagne and Caviar party, which is indulgence at its best. Every couple brings a...
View Article2010 German wine vintage report - a review from 11 days in Germany
Hello everyone, freshly back from Germany following an approximately 2-week long trip through the wine regions of Franken, Wurttemburg, Baden, Pfalz, Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Mosel, and Ahr. Here are my...
View ArticleA successful 2010 preview tasting
Just returned from a very successful preview showing the of the barrel samples we hauled back from Germany last week. We brought 24 wines from 22 different estates, everything from dry Gewurztraminer,...
View ArticleA terrific day tasting the wines of Von Buhl Estate with Christoph Graf
Christoph Graf of Von Buhl Estate in the Pfalz, Germany, was down this week in the Los Angeles area showing a terrific line-up of Von Buhl wines. We ended up driving almost 200 miles that day, tasting...
View ArticleMystery of the Rebholz Pinot Noir solved
When I was in Germany earlier this year with my coworkers and management of Rudi Wiest Selections, tasting the new releases from the estates we represent, we were all floored and surprised at how...
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