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Cheers!

photograph of a blank wine bottle with a silver metal tag hanging off the neck of the bottle reading

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” — Thomas J. Peters photo credit: EatonAlive ©2011

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Occupy Syrah

photo of the wine grape syrah, shiraz, Rhone

Que syrah shiraz. Syrah is one of the most delicious and approachable red wine available, but retailers are hesitant to make larges purchases of syrah, as it languishes on store shelves, unappreciated, unloved and unpurchased. To show support for syrah, Bill Eyer of Cuvee Corner, rabble rouser that he is, has organized a grass-roots event [...]

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San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival 2011 Ticket Contest

Logo for the 8th Annual San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival the biggest and best wine an food event in Southern California

One of the Wine Harlots favorite consumer wine events, the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival is nearly here! It’s held every year the week before Thanksgiving, and it’s a great kick-off to the holiday season. This year it runs November 16-20, 2011 with a series of dinners, seminars and tasting events culminating in [...]

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San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival

the poster for San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival 2011 Poster from an oil painting, A Merry Gathering, copyright by Michael Summers SDBW&FF

Last year I was a first-timer at the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival, Southern California’s biggest wine tasting event. As I looked out the window the morning of the event, the melody of Albert Hammond’s It Never Rains in Southern California was coursing through my head. The normally perfect San Diego weather had [...]

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Yes, Virginia is for Wine Lovers

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The Wine Harlot spent most of the last week in Virginia for the North American Wine Bloggers Conference held in Charlottesville. I enjoyed it so much, I’m contemplating a longer sojourn in the South. Well, except for the weather. As someone raised in the Pacific Northwest, I’m a complete weather-wimp, my climatic temperature range sweet-spot [...]

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Chardonnay Symposium

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What are you doing the weekend of July 22-23? If you’re not going to be in Charlottesville, Virginia for the Wine Bloggers Conference or in San Diego for Comic Con, Wine Harlots suggest heading to bucolic Santa Barbara for the Chardonnay Symposium. Chardonnay isn’t just America’s favorite white grape, it’s the United States favorite wine, outselling [...]

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Engraved Wine Glasses

Photograph of Thomas Bwarie Hand Engraved Wine Glass etched with the name Wine Harlots

Having your wine glasses hand engraved is a fantastic idea for events. Wine Harlots got our wine glass engraved while we were at the Family Winemakers of California tasting event in San Diego at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. At this event the glasses were engraved by Thomas Bwarie of Bwarie Gift Baskets, he did a [...]

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Miloš

photograph of Milos Karadaglic playing guitar on white sand with a blue sea in the background. Debut album Guitar Copyright Olaf Heine courtesy of Deutschegrammophon

Summer is a time of relaxing with friends on the patio on sultry nights. And music is a key component to any get-together. Wine Harlots have been enjoying the debut album of Miloš Karadaglić, Mediterráneo a haunting disc of classical guitar. Miloš, raised in Montenegro, spent his youth with long summers by the Mediterranean Sea. This music [...]

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A Night in Lisbon

image for Second Glass' Night in Lisbon event, with a beautiful woman with a red flower in her hair contemplating a glass of red wine

    Aren’t we all longing to go to Portugal? But with the cost of summer airfare and the crush of tourist season in full swing, it’s not a viable option for everyone. But if you’re in Boston, Portugal will come to you this week. The Second Glass is presenting A Night in Lisbon on [...]

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Thirsty Girl Live in San Diego!

logo of Leslie Sbrocco's Thirsty Girl. Life. Drink it up.

“Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.”  –  Pierre Beaumarchais This Thirsty Thursday, May 26, 2011, join Leslie Sbrocco, founder of Thirsty Girl, for a wine tasting and food pairing at Donovan’s Circle of Fifth’s in San Diego’s [...]

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