by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on October 14, 2010
“Celebrate Pumpkins, Pears & Pinot!”
Summit Sirens Harvest Festival on the Summit to Sea Wine Trail
Saturday & Sunday, October 16 & 17, 2010
Celebrate the excitement of harvest with delectable pairings of apples, pears, pumpkins and Pinot at Burrell School Vineyards & Winery, Loma Prieta Winery, Poetic Cellars and Hunter Hill. All the wineries will be festively decorated for harvest, and will be offering something temptingly delicious from the harvest’s bounty to pair with their Pinot Noirs
Sample Harvest’s Bounty at Each Winery
Incredibly delectable desserts, paired with Pinot, just $5.
Burrell School: Enjoy a seasonal pumpkin display, autumn fruit sampling of local apples and Asian pears, and hedonistically rich Estate Pinot paired with equally decadent white chocolate macadamia pumpkin bars,
Hunter Hill: Brand new 09 Pinot, young, ravishing and fresh! Paired with Madeline-shaped pumpkin cranberry cookies. Three per bag.
Poetic Cellars: Smooth and silky 08 Pinot paired with upside down pear cake garnished w/ whipped cream and mint spring
Loma Prieta: Fruity and baking spice-tinged 07 Saveria Vineyard Pinot paired with Custard tartlet topped w/poached pumpkin, garnished with a nutmeg creme
See you on the Summit to Sea Wine Trail!
www.summit2seawinetrail.com
by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on August 1, 2010
My lips turned blue, so did my teeth, and blue-purple juice was dripping down my chin. And it was happening to everyone around me. No. I was not taking part in a blueberry pie eating contest, or sampling juicy ripe plums at a Farmer’s Market. I was at Concannon Vineyards in Livermore, the Stonehenge of Petite Sirah. It was the 8th annual focused tasting that PS I Love You, an advocacy organization dedicated to this most delightful teeth-stainer, holds yearly for its members, all who are passionate about purpleness.
Read on for more blue lips and juicy tips about Petite Sirah!
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100730/LIFESTYLE/7300323/Laura-Ness-Some-delicious-petite-sirahs-are-out-there
by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on July 23, 2010
Hawaii Days continues at Burrell School Vineyards this weekend with the culinary delights of Chef Desiree. She’s grilling teryaki chicken skewers over spicy Asian salad, along with fresh heirloom tomato caprese with basil and olive oil, both available for purchase. Try the chicken with Teacher’s Pet Chardonnay, lush and tropical, and the caprese with zesty, spicy Zinfandel.
Are your friends worth a magnum? Club members, it’s Futures purchase month! Bring a friend with you to the schoolhouse and if they join the Wine Club, they get treated to barrel tasting and you get your choice of a magnum of one of the futures wines! Hurry, Futures month is coming to an end, along with this great opportunity to buy selected wine at 50% off retail!
Turn your wardrobe into wine! Wear your loudest Hawaiian shirt , post your photo on the Burrell School Facebook page, and you’ll get free shipping for online wine orders! Or, wear your wild threads to the winery and have your photo taken and you will receive a 20% discount on purchases of two bottles or more
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by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on June 18, 2010
With summer comes the official start of Pinot Days, a much-anticipated ode
to our favorite grape, Pinot Noir.
Join winemaker Bradley Brown of Big Basin Vineyards,
as he pours his highly acclaimed Santa Cruz Mountains Pinots in the
company of 200 other world class producers of this Burgundian charmer
at Pinot Days at Fort Mason in San Francisco, Sunday,
June 27. If you love Pinot Noir, this is the event for
you. This is the only Pin0t-centric event in the Bay Area that
showcases Pinots from all the renowned domestic growing regions . For
just $60, you can taste through the terroir of the Santa Lucia
Highlands, Anderson Valley, Santa Maria Valley, Santa Rita Hills and so
many more. Gourmet food purveyors, focused seminars that drill down on
specific regions and winemaker dinners at local restaurants, are all
part of the Pinot Days celebrations, which kick off June 21st with a
winemaker dinner at Roy’s, and tastings at wine bars all over town.
Join Bradley and an elite group of Pinot Passionistas for a seminar
called “In Trivial Pursuit of Pinot,” on Saturday, June
26, from 3pm til 5pm at the Fleet Room at Fort Mason. Meet legends like Richard
Sanford, Greg La Follette and Jean Charles Boisset for
this singular, incredible tasting, featuring 16 of the finest and [...]
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by Laura Ness - HerVineNess on June 10, 2010
Visit the Summit to Sea Wineries this weekend and get your Corky the Wine Whale tattoos! Perfect accent for summer fashions.
Vintner’s Festival in the Santa Cruz Mountains continues for a second weekend, June 12 and 13th, with lots of great food, wine and fun for wine lovers. Visitors to these wineries will get Corky the Wine Whale tattoos: the perfect way to accent those summer fashions. Buy Vintner’s Festival glasses at the wineries or reserve online at scmwa.com
Burrell School on Summit Road will offer live music, vineyard tours, complimentary appetizers, picnic tables and special tastings. If there’s a special grad or Dad in your life, Burrell School suggests this is an ideal time to give a bottle of Valedictorian, Dean’s List Cabernet or Honor Roll Merlot. Of course, if you want to have some fun with Dad, how about a bottle of Detention Zin?
Loma Prieta Winery will have barrel samples, tastes of library wines, live music with guitarist Mark Abdilla on Sunday, jewelry by Elizabeth Moon, Viognier specially priced at $19 (reg $22), bocce ball on top of the world, complimentary appetizers and sweeping coastal views. Wine makes a great gift for all these occasions. The smooth 2007 Loma [...]
