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For this week’s Bacon Fridays post, I am honoring the Zinfandel Festival but pairing Jalapeno Bacon Cheddar Popovers with a California Zin. Zinfandel has been named America’s Heritage Grape, and for 4 days every January, the Zin world comes together in celebration. The Bacon Freak graciously provided me of samples of the Jalepeno bacon, and i [...] For this week’s Bacon Fridays post, I am honoring the Zinfandel Festival but pairing Jalapeno Bacon Cheddar Popovers with a California Zin. Zinfandel has been named America’s Heritage Grape, and for 4 days every January, the Zin world comes together in celebration. The Bacon Freak graciously provided me of samples of the Jalepeno bacon, and i [...] Recently, I was invited to be a guest speaker on a panel at the Wine Club Summit, presented by Vineyard & Winery Management Magazine. This summit was designed give wineries feedback about what we, as wine club members, want and don’t want, so they can improve what they offer to us. Overwhelmingly, the wineries in attendance [...] It’s no secret that I love bacon. Bacon on pizza, bacon by itself, bacon bacon bacon. To this end, I am starting a weekly wine & bacon pairing feature, which was inspired by two recent events. First, Wine Blogging Wednesday #53 had us pair wines with breakfast foods. The BBLT paired with The Spaniard was heavenly. Second, [...] We interrupt the blog to announce that the 2nd Annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference will be held in Sonoma and Napa, July 24th – July 26th. I don’t envy the event planners because I know they made every effort not to conflict with other events. I will miss some of my friends, but hopefully [...] ZAP, the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers trade organization, is dedicated to advancing public knowledge of and appreciation for American Zinfandel. Next week marks its 18th annual festival, a weeklong celebration of Zinfandel themeed events. Being the Zinner that I am, I look forward to this event every year. I also am a volunteer, so I have [...] ZAP, the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers trade organization, is dedicated to advancing public knowledge of and appreciation for American Zinfandel. Next week marks its 18th annual festival, a weeklong celebration of Zinfandel themeed events. Being the Zinner that I am, I look forward to this event every year. I also am a volunteer, so I have [...] There has been an interesting conversation going on for a while now, about how we measure wine bloggers. This question is not without controversy and it sparks a lot of thought. The folks at Vintank, and new powerhouse in the Wine 2.0 world, have even challenged us to create an experiment on how to measure [...] This month, for Wine Blogging Wednesday, El Jefe, of Twisted Oak Winery and El Bloggo Torcido asked us to to tell him what wines we’d eat with breakfast. OK, so more specifically, breakfast foods. The difficult part was he ix-nayed the use of anything sweet or bubbly, the traditionally breakfast or brunch pairing. My favorite drinking [...] This month, for Wine Blogging Wednesday, El Jefe, of Twisted Oak Winery and El Bloggo Torcido asked us to to tell him what wines we’d eat with breakfast. OK, so more specifically, breakfast foods. The difficult part was he ix-nayed the use of anything sweet or bubbly, the traditionally breakfast or brunch pairing. My favorite drinking [...] |
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