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Playing with Wayfaring

Just fiddling about with Wayfaring.com, I started putting together a map of local vineyards near my home. Local Vineyards: Locations we visited in Japan in 2005:

2008 07 28 snolan Local Comments (0)

Wet Wine Festival

Erci and Kate went to the Vintage Virginia Wine Festival with me today. We had some spectacular tastings of James River and Horton and Valhalla wines, then we got drenched in rain. I mean soaked through to our nickers and such that everything in our bags and purses was soaked right through. At one point […]

2008 05 31 snolan Local
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Woo Hoo, Mead on the way!

Erci makes some of the best mead I’ve ever had, and after several years of hiatus, she just started fermenting a couple of batches of the good stuff. One is made from BlackCap honey and wine yeast; and the other with Cranberry honey and champaign yeast. Both honeys are from The Bee Folks out of […]

2008 05 11 snolan Fun
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Love the Bay Area

Erci‘s father picked us up in San Mateo Friday morning and took us down the coast for scenery and catching up, we followed coastal highway 1 from Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz stopping briefly at San Gregorio, at Pigeon Point and in Davenport for lunch. We took longer at both Bonnie Doon Vineyard and […]

2007 08 25 snolan Personal
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Chantilly UPS Sucks

Erci and I like wine. We like wine from several places, but we are particularly fond of wines from Bonny Doon Vineyard in the mountains over Santa Cruz, California. We like Bonnie Doon wines so much that we tried to join DEWN (their wine of the month club) way back when it was illegal to […]

2007 02 17 snolan Local
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2000 “Elyse” Petite Syrah, WOW!

Monday night I opened a bottle of 2000 Elyse Petite Syrah that someone bought at Dean and Deluca (fancy grocer in DC and NY) for $38 a few years ago. This was an amazing bottle of wine. Rich, sense of black berries, very savory, positively yummy. It has been a lucky year for us opening […]

2007 01 10 snolan Personal Comments (2)

Virginia Vineyards

On Saturday, October 25th, we took my brother, his girlfriend, and my mother out to Stillhouse Vineyards in Hume, Virginia, to taste a little wine and see the Autumn foliage. The foliage was disappointing, but the Cabernet Franc was awesome. I normally dislike Chardonnay, but Stillhouse and Naked Mountain both have Chardonnay wines that are […]

2003 10 26 Scott Nolan Local
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