wine eduction – Missinwine

By - Caroline
Posted on April 26, 2011May 11, 2011
Posted in Californian wine trip, Rhone Varieties, wine eductation, Wine Regions, Wine Review, wine tasting

Californian wine trip part 2: Los Olivos, Solvang and St Barbara wine country

After a few days soaking up the sun in SoCal I headed up to the Santa Barbara region to catch up with my friends Sam and Cath from 1000 corks – an excellent US wine search engine BTW – and together we headed up to Los Olivos. You can read Sam’s recount of our day

By - Caroline
Posted on April 4, 2011May 11, 2011
Posted in Californian wine trip, restaurant reviews, wine eductation, wine tasting

Californian Wine Adventure – Temecula Valley

I have always wanted to learn more about Californian wines so I decided to take a 2 week wine road trip through California to taste my way up from San Diego to Mendocino county:-) 85% of US wine comes from California and Vitis Vinifera (wine grapes) are grown over the length of the state –

By - Caroline
Posted on February 28, 2011
Posted in wine eductation
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You can get what you want if you want it bad enough!!

In January, I had an inspiring talk with my @rovingsommelier friend Robert Giorgione and felt like I wanted to learn more about wine yet again. Being quite disappointed that I wasn’t going to start the WSET diploma (thank you very much IT audit – grrr) I was looking at a few other angles. My friend

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Californian wine trip part 2: Los Olivos, Solvang and St Barbara wine country

Californian Wine Adventure – Temecula Valley

You can get what you want if you want it bad enough!!