Napa Sonoma Wine Trip 3/17/08

It has been some time since we had been to the Napa Sonoma wine country. Went with a another couple of Grapecrazy's, and it was soooo much fun. Beautiful weather, so much good wine and food, great company and St. Patrick's weekend to boot!


Great wines and staff at St. Supery, Peju, Clos Pegase, Castello di Amorosa, Sterling, Twomey and Cakebread. Very cool hotel on the plaza in downtown Sonoma, the El Dorado Hotel.

Check out these web sites:

www.stsupery.com www.clospegase.com www.peju.com www.sterlingvinyards.com www.eldoradosonoma.com www.cakebread.com www.twomeycellars.com www.castellodiamorosa.com

Bye for now, enjoy wine friends and food!

Seghesio at AZ Wine

A super Friday tasting at AZ Wine on 3/7/08. Seghesio Family Vinyards (www.seghesio.com) is well known for awesome Zin's and did not disappoint last night. A great turnout, lot's of tasty samples, a rowdy AZ Wine staff, and Edd Lopez, National Sales Director, leading the tasting.

If you are not on AZ Wines (www.azwineco.com) e-mail list to receive tasting schedules, stop in the location nearest you, buy some wine and sign up right away. These are a blast!

Till next time, enjoy wine, food and friends!

AZ Wine tastings

Went to AZ Wine Firday 12/28 for a great bubbly tasting. Several sparkling wines and champagne. These tastings are a great deal, $10.00 per person but that can be applied to a purchase from the tasting. CHECK IT OUT!

Su Vino's Almond Champagne

Quck note, everyone, check out Su Vino's new Almond Champagne. We stopped in New Years weekend, had a sample and picked up a bottle for home. This is YUMMY!!

Terroir Wine Pub New Years Bash

Another fantastic New Years Eve party at Terroir! Brian and the crew were most excellent hosts, Big Nick and the Gila Monsters were jamming, dance floor was packed and of course the wine was flowing!!

We used a great new service to get us home, Zingo. They drive to your location on these cool little motor scooters, pack that in your trunk, and drive you and your car home. Very Cool!

Check out these links: http://www.monstertonerecords.com/
http://www.zingoaz.com/

Su Vino Winery

Wow, another great wine pub pops up right in our back yard! Su Vino Winery,
http://www.suvinowineryaz.com/. 7035 E. Main Street. East side, street level at the new Main Street condos. Su Vino, which means "Your Wine" in Italian and Spanish, was founded in Grapevine, Texas (got to love that name!) and Cory Whalin is the Scottsdale Proprietor.

The "Grapecrazies" stopped in on a recent Friday to check it out. The first impression is great, lots of room, nice colors, very unique layout. The staff is fantastic. No "wine snobs" here! We meet Cory, Jason (our server) and Cory's future mother-in-law Maureen. Very nice people and very knowledgeable about their wine.

What really makes Su Vino SO cool is they only sell their wine, made on premises. That's right, an actually winery in Old Town Scottsdale. Everything we tried was very good. And, the real kicker is you can have batches of wine made for you. Use their existing recipes, or you can custom blend. Once the batch is ready, you can come in and do your own bottling. They will even make custom label. What a great party idea, have a batch made, bring in some friends and have an evening of wine bottling!!

So, check out Su Vino right away!

Balmy summer night at Uncorked

5/18/07

Balmy summer night at Uncorked with our friends Janet, Mark, Maggie, Pam and crew.

This place is really cool. In the Promenade mall, Scottsdale Rd. and Frank Lloyd Wright. Very pretty inside, lots of comfy seating, intimate, beautiful colors. Awesome patio, right next to Promenade Amphitheater and as it happened Alice Tatum was performing! Very helpful staff, great wine selection, and good food. Tip, next time you happen to hit Nordstrom’s Rack, do it late afternoon, and stop in at Uncorked and unwind!
http://uncorkedwinebar.com/aboutus.html