Archive for October, 2006

 Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine & Having Great Relationships by  Alpana Singh 
Here’s one sassy woman who balances her love of the grape with her gender and her ability to have great relationships. Hmmm. You got to give her points for originality. According to Alpana, women buy more wine than men which is why [more...]

California leads the way to all things organic, including organic wine. Drive up (or down) the northern coast where layers of fog roll in and out like a comforting blanket that soothes your soul as you wind through the tall canopy of trees hovering on Mendocino’s Highway 1.
In the Russian River bench lands of Mendocino [more...]

We’ve come a long way baby — except when it comes to the libations that we choose.  It seems that there are individuals, en mass, out there that care what others think about their preferred alcoholic drink. 
I was dismayed to read in a recent Wall Street Journal article that both women and men are still having [more...]

Chocolate beer you say? Maybe it’s a marketing scheme to attract women who love chocolate to drink more beer or perhaps just to think outside the keg.
As demand for crafted beers grows, the Miller Brewing Co. is launching a limited holiday edition chocolate lager in parts of the Midwest — Wisconsin, Indiana, Chicago, Cleveland, and [more...]

Yeah, you read that right. Fried Coke. It’s the real thing. If Coke isn’t bad enough, throw caution to the wind and deep fry it. That’s exactly what Abel Gonzales Jr. did at the fair circuit.
Last year he deep-fried peanut butter, jelly, and banana sandwiches and sold 20,000 of them. Then someone else came up with deep-frying Twinkies and Snickers.
Not [more...]