This lovely wine had citrus notes to it. The wine was created at the Horse Heaven Vineyard, and we purchased it from Chateau Ste. Michelle when we did the winery tour. The Horse Heaven Chenin Blanc was light and easy drinking. It makes a great summer wine. The only thing about this wine I …
Mandatory Pregnancy Testing?
Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana has been the focus of many blog commentaries. According to Think Progress, the school has had a lot of pregnant girls. However, the school charter forbids pregnant girls from attending this K-12 school. In order to uphold that policy, the school requires pregnancy testing of anyone suspected to be pregnant. …
Creating a Cleaning Schedule
Even with a glass (or bottle!) of Malbec at hand, housework is much easier if you create a cleaning schedule. What works best for me is to break down my home’s rooms and then assign each room to a day of the week. I then create a checklist of cleaning chores that need …
Creekside’s Hazy Days Tasting
This week’s tasting featured some nice wines. The theme was the “Lazy Hazy Days of Summer” – and the wines were nice wines to complement the theme. This week’s tasting featured nine wines, we tasted eight of those wines. 2011 Voss Sauvignon Blanc from Napa Valley – ($19) – This wine had a …
Life With Pets
Pets make the world go round. It’s such a great thing to have pets. We have three cats. Lady – the kitty pictured to the right, Stripes – Lady’s brother and a total glutton, and LuLu – a tiny runt of a kitty who is also much older than she looks. We want to get …
Mollydooker’s Boxer
Previously, Wining Husband and I had Mollydooker‘s Maitre D. We’d been seeing Mollydooker’s Boxer Shiraz in a few restaurants around town, but we hadn’t tasted it. Finally, we saw a huge deal on this wine at Trader Joe’s. We thought we would try it. This wine is very good, and it pairs well …
Fish and Bertagna’s Sangiovese Rose
A couple months ago, we visited the Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards. We were quite taken with a few of their wines – one of them being the unique Sangiovese Rose, which almost had a sparkling quality to it. So, we had this wonderful wine hanging out in our cellar for a bit. When it …
All The Shootings
It feels as though there have been a lot of public shootings lately. How scary is it that on July 20th, a bunch of people went to a theater to watch a movie, and then their evening turned into a traumatic event. I cannot imagine all the emotions at all, and I feel …
Swedish Meatballs and 2008 Chateau Ste. Michelle’s Ethos Chardonnay Reserve
Tonight for dinner, I made chicken Swedish meatballs and we paired it with a 2008 Chateau Ste. Michelle Ethos Chardonnay Reserve. The Swedish meatballs recipe came courtesy of Cooking Light. I’ve made it many times before, however, usually instead of the rye bread, I use a garlic bread produced by our local supermarket. This time, …
Dining Room Wine Area Makeover
So today we got a major score! We’ve been talking about how we really needed a much better solution for storing our wine. Up until now, it had been in two roll-top cabinets, and boxes on top of and next to cabinets. We’ve also been wanting to catalog the wine we have using Cellar …
