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Taxco is a colonial city, cut into the side of the rugged Atatzin Mountain. It shouts its dramatic setting and its charming atmosphere of whitewashed buildings with reddish-orange Spanish tile roofs from well before you even enter the town. It gets more dramatic and charming the further you progress up the hill into the town […]
We came, we tasted, we once again surrendered to the wines, the foods and the experiences of Napa Valley in California. We provided blow-by-blow (o at least winery-by-winery and restaurant-by-restaurant descriptions of many of our favorite tops from our two week stay in Napa. Following are our three favorites in each of four categories: Napa […]
Between catching up from our four month Asia trip, weeklong trips to LA and New York, finishing my book (which is scheduled for September publication) and the winding down of Joyce’s consulting career, we missed all too much of what was going on in our adopted home town of San Francisco: restaurant openings, museum and […]
The July 21/22 Winestock San Francisco tasting event appeared to be a good time had by all. Held in Russian Hill’s historic Firehouse 8, the event offered tastings by about 20 wineries and specialty food providers. Although most of the producers were small, boutique firms, a few larger wineries, such as Peju and Hanna were also […]
Stags Leap is, as we have discussed in a number of posts, one of our favorite cab appellations. We are, therefore, anxiously awaiting our first chance to participate in their annual blow-out Vineyard to Vintner weekend, where dozens of the district’s wineries pull out all stops to present their newly released wines. …
On a recent trip to Napa, we engaged in many memorable tastings, tried three restaurants to which we had never been and experienced two particularly fun, particularly educational events. And that was in one of our two and a half days in the valley. The educational events were the highlights of the trip. These were: […]