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Pasadena wine tasting to feature hundreds of pinot noirs
The Pasadena PinotFest is getting better with age. Wine-guy-about-town Mike Farwell and his partners from Noir Food & Wine are taking their third annual wine festival to new heights this year, with a capstone Grand Public Tasting to be held … Continue reading
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Tagged Altadena, Altadena Town and Country Club, Claud Beltran, dining, food, Mike Farwell, Noir Food & Wine, pairing, Pasadena, Pasadena PinotFest, pinot noir, tasting, tickets, wine
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Nose Diving: French ros winemakers seeking foothold in U.S. market
To find a local constituency fluent in the language of ros wines, one need look no further than a gathering of French food professionals. And Club Culinaire, which earlier this summer put on its Picnic des Chefs to raise money … Continue reading
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Tagged Club Culinaire, French, Provence, ros, tasting, trade, wine, Wines of Provence
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Nose Diving: TastingRoom’s tiny wine bottles have big tech behind them
In an operations center near the Sonoma County Airport, highly sensitive liquids are handled in a meticulous process that prevents their contamination. Exacting scientific standards require the most unpolluted environment possible: a semiconductor clean room, devoid of oxygen, into which … Continue reading
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Tagged column, Grgich Hills, kit, pairing, sample, science, taste test, tasting, Tasting Room, TastingRoom.com, technology, Tim Bucher, wine, wine country
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Nose Diving: It’s a wine world (after all) at Disney’s California Food & Wine Festival
Nose Diving is a feature column, in which a novice wine writer fumbles toward grace. My feet are dangling freely as we coast, hang-glider style, over the vast expanse of California below us. It’s a gloriously sunny day as we … Continue reading
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Tagged brunch, California Adventures, California Food & Wine Festival, champagne, Disney, food, Jean-Marc Viallet, sweets, tasting, wine
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Nose Diving: Good taste runs in the Family Winemakers sampling in Pasadena
>>EAT Nose Diving is a new feature column, in which a novice wine writer fumbles toward grace. I’m standing just outside the Pasadena Convention Center, cursing my five-inch heels. There’s a lot of ground to cover here, but grumbling at … Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk Hill, drink, Family Winemakers, Fotinos Brothers, Hitching Post, Nickel & Nickel, pairings, Pasadena Convention Center, red, tasting, white, wine, Wine Detective
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Lush scenes from the Pasadena Wine Festival at the Arboretum in Arcadia
>>EAT The Pasadena Wine Festival took up residence for two evenings this weekend at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. Attendant vinophiles shared the space with the Arboretum’s resident peacocks, while looking up at a backdrop of the … Continue reading