Wine Tasting In Los Angeles

Wine Tasting In Los Angeles

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Top 5 Reasons for not going to a Wine Bar

Top 5 reasons why hosting a Wine Tasting in your Home is better than going to the Wine Bar:


1. A broad selection of styles of wines, BTW, not just five chardonnays and four cabernets. WineShop At Home expands your horizons by presenting unique wines and giving more depth of information than you would find at a wine bar.

2. Knowledgeable wine consultants to guide you and your guests through the wine tasting. In terms of education, you learn the basics of wine and food pairing.

3. A selection of small plates of wine friendly food, not poor quality cheese plates which rarely pair well with the wines offered.

4. Wine Bars may have a dozen boring wines by the glass that have been out since a few days before. WineShop At Home wines are opened just minutes before you taste.

5. Don’t pay outrages prices for the same old wines. WineShop At Home wines are affordable, small-production, hand-crafted artisan wines.

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Experience California's Finest Wine Without Leaving Your Home

WineShop At Home - Feature by Norma

Indulge in the finest artisan wine that California has to offer without leaving your home or office. WineShop At Home, a premier seller of wine, offers a luxurious wine tasting experience that includes your own wine connoisseur. Enjoy six bottles of carefully selected, palate-pleasing California wine with up to 16 friends and bring new definition to “happy hour”.

WineShop At Home wine selection:

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"Winemaker's Innovation only" $59
"Classic Mix" only $59

WineShop At Home offers a truly unique twist to the wine tasting experience. During this two-hour wine sampling, your personal Wine Consultant will provide you with all of the tools and information necessary to enjoy and serve fine wines with the highest confidence. With six bottles of artisan-crafted California wine, great company, and an experienced wine connoisseur, WineShop At Home serves up an unforgettable evening, deserving of a group cheers.

Experience the best wine that California has to offer in the convenience of your own home or office with WineShop At Home. Offering a private sampling of delicious varietals, WineShop At Home literally delivers a unique wine tasting package that comes with your own personal wine connoisseur to guide you along the way. Impress your closest friends with a private California wine pouring event brought right to your doorstep.

Book your wine tasting today: www.wineshopathome.com/normaserrano 

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Personalized Wine Labels - Stand Out From the Crowd

Personalized Wine Labels

Stand out from the Crowd

Wine Label Design Ideas:

Stand out from the crowd with your own custom wine label. Giving a bottle of wine with your own custom wine label is something people appreciate and know is truly your own custom creation "Uncle Tom's 50th Birthday Vino". Perhaps that High School pictures you found of Mary and Tom from the Sixties when they still were a little wild. The creativity you can put on a wine bottle label is endless.



Here are a few FUN wine labeling ideas to get you started:

• Have the family cat or dog "give" their own "Private Cellar" wine with their own pictures on the label.

• Find old pictures and add this caption "I never thought I'd see that again" pictures of funny and embarrassing moments.

• Have your children design their own wine labels with crayons or colored markers and scan them into your computer. Adjust it to label size and have your "Own Little Picasso" wine.

• Use Halloween photos of your little devils and demons.

• Use your engagement photo for your wedding wine labels.

• Dress as Santa and Mrs. Claus and use that on your Holiday wines.

• Use your latest painting or work of art on a wine label for your next gallery show/opening.

• Add your company logo and give a memorable gift for the Holidays

Have fun and be creative!

WineShop At Home offers you many creative and unique choices when an opportunity to give a memorable gift arises. Wine labels can be customized for any holiday or occasion you can think of and can be ordered as a half case or full case. Our quality wines combined with your custom wine label is truly a memorable gift that stands out from the crowd.

Watch Video - How to Open a Bottle of Wine

WineShop At Home, John Lynch demonstates how to propperly open a bottle wine using the WineShop At Home corkscrew. Along with a brief history of how how the corkscrew was invented and examples of other wine openers

Wine Tip 9 of 20 ~ Let it Settle

Wine Tip 9 of 20 ~ Let it Settle by Eric

Let it settle - Wine is a living, changing thing (maybe not by strict science), but one thing that many collectors and enthusiasts will swear by is that a bottle is better when given a short rest period after transport. Try buying a bottle the day before you need it so that it can have some time to rest. If you're having it shipped to you, give it at least a week or two of rest. The wine will be in better spirits when it's time to pour.

Eric Guido is Owner/Writer at the V.I.P. Table
Eric provides Recipes, travel, wine pairings, food photography and restaurant reviews. Read more here.

Tip 8 of 20 ~ Which Wine is Best with Brie

Which Wine is Best with Brie by Norma

Keep in mind that pairing cheese and wine is a centuries long tradition. I experimented with a few wines and the two that just knocked my socks of were this 2008 Albion California Muscat and the 2008 Mariana Vineyard Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay. The creamy Brie with the mouthwatering and acidic  Chardonnay gave my mouth a "hello."  It was perfect.

To get more information about these wines visit WineShop At Home

Norma Serrano, Wine Consultant
Los Angeles

Tip 7 of 20

How to do Wine Country Right – by Norma

Plan your trip carefully – because no matter how long you plan your trip, it will never be long enough. You can’t do it all on one trip.

Limit your winery visits to 2 or 3 per day or you will find yourself running around and not fully experiencing what the wineries have to offer.

Start your day early with a tasty light breakfast then visit your 1st winery at around 10am, Visit your 2nd winery by 12pm, have a wonderful lunch at a local restaurant. After all, that’s what the trip is about ~ Great Food and Wine. Take a nap and in the afternoon visit your 3rd winery and book dinner for the night.

Norma Serrano is a Wine Consultant with WineShop At Home. If you can’t go to Napa, have Napa come to you! Experience a wine tasting in your home or office. Visit www.wineshopathome.com/normaserrano for more information

Which are the TEN greatest Wines of the last 10 years?

I thought it would be fun to find out what people thought are the best 10 Wines of the last ten years. Post your list here. I'll be doing a video of the results later and posting the results. If you want a link back to you, add it after your name.


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Tip 6 of 20

Why Start a Wine Business? by Gladys
Let Your Passion Breathe. Ever wonder if you had what it takes to start a Wine Business?

Can you tell the difference between Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand and Sauvignon Blancs from other parts of the world? Can you read this wine description and know exactly what the author meant: “Ripe, rich and round, with lots of spicy, earth-scented black cherry and berry flavors, hinting deliciously at chocolate on the smooth finish”? Are you the type who can sip and talk about Merlot, Pinot Noir, Riesling, or Frascati for hours and not get bored stiff?
If your answer to all three questions is yes, you could be wine savvy. Now, why not put your love of fine wines into a profitable business? The best part about wine is that it never goes out of style, so the kind of wine you make today will still be in demand decades or even centuries later. 

To read full article: Why Start a Wine Business? click here

Gladys is import manager at Herpasur provides stainless steel tanks for wine ,olive oil ,liquid soap and others http://www.voteforus.com/startawinebusiness.html

Wine Tip 5 of 20

5. Three "wheres" to try wine by Douglas

Where to Taste Wine

From least to most effective, here are three “wheres” for trying wine.  

1. What’s most fun is attending what I call a “Wineapalooza” tasting which many stores and restaurants stage periodically. What’s better than twenty or more wines and friendly staff members pouring for you? Well, they are fun, but definitely a case of quantity over quality. They can be too crowded, and don’t always offer food that will best accompany the wine.
2. Or you can order a wine flight at a bar. This is a great step when you don’t want an entire bottle, or want to experiment. Typically, the bar will pair up wines with similar characteristics (for example, by variety, or by region). Or you might get the exact same wine and winemaker, but from three or four different vintages. This is a great way to compare and contrast!
3. The best way to learn is with friends. Organize a tasting yourself! Invite some friends to your home, ask them each to bring a bottle from a particular country or variety. Then you can all sip, share and discuss. If you ask attendees to wrap their bottles in a paper bag, you can unveil them at the end of the evening. Was your favorite the most . . . or the least expensive?

Douglas Trapasso is based in Chicago and writes the Chicago Pinot 2.0 blog, which is available at http://chicagopinot.wordpress.com/

Wine tip 4 of 20 - Get Involved

4. Get Involved by Shona


Learn more about wines by getting involved with your local wine shops. Find out what kind of tastings and classes they offer. This requires drinking quite a few wines to find out what you like. It’s a great way to learn about different varietals and different regions of wines.


Shona Milne is contributing Editor at Woodinvilee Wine Update to see her contributions visit: 

www.woodinvillewineupdate.com

Wine Tip 3 of 20 - Decanting Wine

3. Decant Your Wine by Jacques

People think of decanting old and robust red wines. Most wines actually benefit from decanting:
- Old and robust reds are decanted to filter sediments and aerate
- Young reds needs aeration in order to quickly open.
- Rich, classic white Burgundy will benefit from decanting well before tasting

Here is what NOT to decant:
- Few old red Burgundy wines can accept decanting and could evolve too fast
- Light and fruity white wines will not benefit from decanting
- And finally, let's not lose the bubbles of a fine Champagne

Wine Tip 2 of 20 ~ Smell by Terry August

2. Smell  Your Wine by Terry

Work on your olfactory senses, they have a lot to do with how you taste. If you read about wines and see words like cassis, dark fruit, leather, and such - make a point of smelling some of those items, it will help you identify them in your wine. They make kits that have common aromas of both white and red wines which are helpful. You can also just make a point of smelling things. We were in Burgundy and we kept hearing how this wine smelled of cassis. My husband realized he didn't know what cassis smells like! It is a black current, and you can find bushes about France.


Terry August is the founder of Fancifull Baskets ~ She and her husband create artisan wine gift baskets filled with real food and unusual finds. She tries every wine, cheese and edible product so you know you are getting the BEST.

To contact Terry visit her website: http://www.fancifullgiftbaskets.com/ a creator of fancifull baskets.

Wine Tip 1 of 20 - Letting Wine Breathe by Alan Watt

letting wine breathe

Wine Tip 1 of 20 is a list compiled from wine experts from the wine industry.

1. Letting Wine Breathe  by Alan

Opening a red wine and letting it get exposure to air is not just some wine related myth, but allows pent up alcohol to dissipate, while letting the flavors, and the bouquet "open up". To really achieve an effect, a small amount of the wine has to be poured off (into a glass) to create enough surface area to make the difference. This is different from "decanting", used usually for an older wine, to allow breathing and capture any sediment that might have formed in the bottle.


Alan Watt is a partner of a small company based in Cameron Park, CA.  For the past 20 years he has offered a very unique, personal service for people who love wine.

To contact Alan visit his website: http://www.thewinesource.biz/ a merchant of fine wine!

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Do’s and Don’ts To Improve Your Wine Tasting Skills

Wine tasting can be as simple as enjoying a glass of wine on the deck at sunset or as complicated as judging flights of wines in a wine competition. If you’d like to get more enjoyment out of every glass of wine, here are some Do’s and Don’ts.

Don’ts

• Don’t put on cologne or perfume before drinking wine

• Don’t brush your teeth right before drinking wine

• Don’t taste red wine before white

Do’s

• To full appreciate a wine’s flavor, inhale, take a sip, roll the liquid around in your mouth, coating your taste buds, and exhale through your nose before swallowing.

• Taste wine at the correct temperature, 50 – 60 degrees for whites, 55 – 65 degrees for rose, and 62 – 68 degrees for reds.

• Instead of just drinking the wine, practice the 5 S’s of wine tasting – See, Swirl, Sniff, Sip and Savor.

Learning about wine can take a lifetime.

I am a Wine Consultant with WineShop At home. I host in-home wine tastings in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. www.wineshopathome.com/normaserrano

In The Tasting Room

New Arrivals  Broadmoore Estates 2008 Paso Robles Sangiovese There is nowhere else on earth that you will find our New Wine Releases!  You can look on the store shelf, you can look on the internet, you can travel the globe. You can look but you will not find!  Our exclusive summer wine releases are nothing short of right out of this world.  Perfect for all your summer entertaining and celebrating.  Perfect for pairing with summer's best recipes. This 2008 Broadmoore Estates Paso Robles Sangiovese has aromas of cherries, leather and toasted oak with hints of Worcestershire and anise.  This is a mouth-watering wine with a medium weight on the palate.  The flavors are consistent with the aromas and the finish is long and smooth with just a hint of tannin.  Enjoy this wine with a Tuscan white bean salad, grilled pork chops, caprese salad or medium cheeses such as havarti. This Broadmoore Estates Sangiovese pairs beautifully with this recipe for America’s Favorite Pork Chops. Click here to view the Vintner's Notes & Recipe Broadmoore Estates 2009 Paso Robles Chenin Blanc This 2009 Broadmoore Estates Paso Robles Chenin Blanc has aromas of star jasmine, fresh lemon and fresh mint with hints of anise and light white pepper.  This is a crisp and flavorful wine with lingering acidity.  The mouth-feel is light and refreshing with a long finish.  Enjoy this wine with baked white fish, goat cheese salad, seafood salad on toast points or mild cheese such as mozzarella. This Broadmoore Estates Chenin Blanc pairs beautifully with this recipe for White Fish Provençal.Click here to view the Vintner's Notes & Recipe Broadmoore Estates 2008 Paso Robles Zinfandel This 2008 Broadmoore Estates Paso Robles Zinfandel has aromas of cranberries, strawberries and blackberries with hints of allspice, molasses and sandalwood.  This wine has a medium weight mouth-feel coupled with light tannins and a balanced acidity.  The finish is medium length with generous amounts of fruit flavors.  Enjoy this wine with pulled pork sandwiches, fried chicken, tabouli or medium cheeses such as jack. This Broadmoore Estates Zinfandel pairs beautifully with this recipe for Oven-Fried Chicken. Click here to view the Vintner's Notes & Recipe Ceres 2009 Edna Valley Late Harvest Viognier This 2009 Ceres Edna Valley Late Harvest Viognier has aromas of honey, citrus, orange blossom and peach with hints of caramel and lemon peel.  The fruity flavors are light and refreshing with a balanced sweetness.  The mouth-feel is on the light side of dessert wines and the finish is long and fruity with just the right amount of acidity.  Enjoy this wine with a fruit tart, pears poached in white wine, cream cheese or peach sorbet. This Ceres Late Harvest Viognier pairs beautifully with this recipe for Roasted Pears with Almonds, Cranberries and White Chocolate Drizzle.Click here to view the Vintner's Notes & Recipe

Party Idea: In-Home Wine Tasting

Party Idea: In-Home Wine Tasting

With all the lingo about vintages and tannins and terroir, wine can be intimidating. However, learning at home with friends — through an in-home wine-tasting party hosted by WineShop At Home, Wine Consultant — can help strip away the pretenses.


Scenario: A wine consultant comes to your house, offers basic instruction on evaluation (color, smell, swirl, and sip), and provides samples of six different wines. Then, guests have an opportunity to purchase the bottles they like. Think of it as a Tupperware party for the wine-loving set.




Bonus —
The only cost to the host are the wine tasting kit with a savings of 50% off retail. Only $59  (Value $120), the light snacks to pair with the wine. And the only cost to guests are the bottles they order.

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