A Toast to Me!

About two months ago I opened an account on Twitter. I admit that I had resisted the urge for quite a while, but broke down with Debbie told me that the California Jaycees (@jcica) were twittering year-end award results real-time. Like good Jaycees, we made an evening of it! We met at Debbie’s house, she [...]

On Sunday, May 3rd, the Santa Clarita Valley welcomed the Child & Family Center’s 21st annual Taste of the Town.  Over thirty of Santa Clarita’s finest restaurants, caterers, wine vendors and micro-brewers served up delectable tastes to hundreds of guests in attendance.  I was one of them! I admit  I was looking forward to sampling [...]

Wine: Fermented grape juice + Romance My Abuelo (grandfather) was an avid wine drinker… so much so that my Abuela (grandmother) would fill the carafe with 1/2 water, 1/2 wine. I don’t know if my Abuelo knew that my Abuela did this. But if he did, he’d probably appreciate the fact that she had learned [...]

So it’s been over a month since my last post, but it’s not because I haven’t been busy with wine!  Two weeks ago, we put on the LARGEST wine festival in Southern California — the Loose Goose Wine Festival.  My role?  Well I was responsibile for the coordination of all of the wineries.  I learned [...]

I have been reading “Judgment of Paris” and was really excited when my roommate purchased tickets to see Bottle Shock this weekend. Would the movie truly do the story justice? I think it did! The movie makes the story as well as the history appealing. It’s a struggle between what doing what you have to [...]

After a long day, I came home to a bottle of Agua Dulce Vineyards 2001 Aneas Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon that a friend brought over to share with my roommate. At first hesitated to accept a glass, I mean he did bring it over to share with her, right? But, who am I to turn down [...]