Unique wine gifts for wine lovers You may know someone who loves to drink wine, talk about wine, buy wine, have wine parties, visit wineries and has a lot of wine gifts. This may leave you wondering what on earth you could buy them that they
Read MoreMaking Beef Bourguignon Using my favorite cook book, this is an easy rendition of beef bourguignon. My Winespill makes beef stew the French way with 2 glorious ingredients: bacon and Pinot Noir! Julia Child has described the dish as "certainly one of the most delicious beef dishes
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As wine windows become popular again, let's travel back to a time when ‘wine windows’ were used during the bubonic plague in Europe as a method of socially distanced wine selling. Wine producers passed the flask of wine through the wine window and they passed
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Being house bound and thirsty I remember an add I saw last summer for a summer duo: a House Wine & Cheez-It dual-sided box. It was a limited-edition product offered last July of one-part box of Original Cheez-It, one-part Original Red Blend box of House
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As protests rage across the United States, calling for an end to police brutality and injustice for the murder of George Floyd, there are many ways you can take action in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the black community. Along with donating
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Have you been good during all the madness of 2020. Good enough that the wine fairies will leave you a wine fairy gift basket? Forget about Santa Clause. Bring joy to your neighbors during the lockdowns with a movement of kindness. These “wine fairies” have
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Consider your daily routine like a game you love to play In our new normal we have taken our work home with us. Here are 10 tips for working from home plus some general guidelines to make the transition easier. I know that some in business
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A Short Answer to the Question of How much sugar is in a glass of wine Wine doesn't contain any sugar how you might think, like corn syrup or granulated sugar. It does, however, contain fruit sugar that is produced naturally. When the yeast is added
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State of the wine industry in 2019 The United States wine industry has grown from just over $30 billion in 2002 to more than $60 billion today and the number of U.S. wineries has grown by 50% to nearly 10,000, but in the past year have
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I recently stopped at the Boiler House Grill & Wine Garden, located in the Pearl District of San Antonio, they provide a taste of artfully prepared, gourmet Texas Hill Country fare that is sourced from surrounding farms and ranches. What a list of wines they
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