“Red is the great clarifier – bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red – it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.” – Diana Vreeland
photo credit: EatonAlive ©2013
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ― Anaïs Nin
I’m in Spain as I write this, embarking on a twenty-six day wine odyssey beginning with Penedés and Priorat as a guest of Freixenet, a few days in Barcelona with gin and tonics, Gaudi and European professional basketball. The a week in Bordeaux as a guest of Vignobles Ducourt, before jetting to Lyon before the Wines of France tour of Beaujolais and the Rhône and then a weekend at the Fête des Crus du Beaujolais and with a hot-air balloon ride at dawn, and hanging out with Vicky Wine Finishing up the trip is a journey to Champagne, which seems fitting — beginning and ending the effervescent escapades with a sparkle.
Due to the travel schedule, and potential Internet connectivity issues, I don’t anticipate posting a lot here at Wine Harlots during my travel. Follow the journey in pictures over on my Wine Harlot Instagram feed to stay current.
photo credit: EatonAlive ©2013
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“Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” — Helen Keller
Tired of winter weather? The darkness, stillness and cold still enveloping you, making you long for brighter days? Pour a glass of Crios Torrontés, with it’s evocative label with the line drawing of a free-form hands, this torrontés is spring in a glass – sunlight, honeysuckle and limes. The perfect pairing? Try Pork & Shrimp Pot Stickers. The music match? We’re listening to a favorite, “Take My Hand” by Dido from the album No Angel.
The details: 13.9% alcohol. Screw-cap closure. Appellation:Argentina. Grape: Torrontés. Retail price: $11-15 USD. Imported by Vine Connections. This was a media sample for a Whole Foods spring wine tasting.
photo credit: EatonAlive ©2013
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“You have to speak your dream out loud” – Kelly Corrig
Wine Harlots are huge fans of Kickstarter, a new way to fund projects by crowdsourced funding. We’ve told you about the successfully funded products the wine rack STACT and the Mason Cocktail Shaker. Today we have three more worthy of your consideration for funding.
The first is the Latitude Wine Bar, a new drinking establishment in Bluffton, South Carolina by Jean Wilson, better known in the blogging and social media realm as the Red Wine Diva, who envisions the bar just outside Hilton Head to be welcoming and homey to tourists and locals alike. Looking to support a wine bar? Here’s your opportunity.
Glassed Over is an established business looking for a little capital to grow. Glassed Over makes ecological soy wax candles using recycled wine bottles as the container. Just shy of their goal with three days left, give them the final push and score a cool candle for yourself or you favorite oenophile.
Rx Bitters Co. (pronounced “prescription bitters”) is a San Diego based bitters company created by mixologists, and who better to create a better bitter than a bartender? Two days are left on their campaign; show your love of cocktails by showing support.
Rolling Stones says “Kickstarter funds the future.” Fund the future by supporting start-ups and visionaries, the one’s who have the courage to speak their dreams out loud.
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