News and musing about traveling
The Ice House Winery – from that name alone, you can expect nothing but spectacular ice wine. Plus, ice wine slushy? This I have to try! I love ice wine, and never had ice wine slushy before. As soon as you enter, the friendly staff greets you with a refreshing shot ice wine slushy while(…)
There is nothing like find a random little winery off the side of the road on the long road trip. By chance while driving by gorgeous Atwood Lake, I saw a sign that says “Al-Bi Winery”, hey had to pull over, it was calling my name. When I walked into the place, this place was probably one(…)
As an ice wine lover, I have always wanted to visit the famed Inniskillin Winery at Niagara on the Lake in Ontario, Canada. Inniskillin was the first winery in Canada to receive the VAQ (Vitners Quality Alliance) stamp and approval. At the winery, you can choose to taste any particular ice wine for $7 –(…)
There is no better place to experience ice wine than at the Niagara On The Lake Ice Wine Festival. Here, the best ice wine producers of Canada are showcasing this prized method. For a bottle to be labelled “ice wine”, the grapes must freeze at -8 degrees Celsius, with the grapes picked frozen and pressed while still frozen.(…)
Unique – that’s the one word I’ll use to describe this family-owned winery in South Dakota. Remarkably, I think this is the first time I’ve fought to see a winery just because of it’s… uniqueness. But then again, I’m spoiled, I’ve lived 30 minutes away from the gorgeous AND delicious wineries of Northern California ever(…)
After hours of cancellations and delay of your flight, in a bustling airport where all the passengers are trying to reschedule their flight, the only place of serenity was not the airport chapel or the first class lounge, instead it was Vino Volo, an airport wine bar chain that is creeping up across airports all(…)
On a cross-country trip , I randomly decided to type “winery” into my trusty GPS while in Wisconsin. I was simply hoping for some vino to wash down my famous Wisconsin cheese but came across this gem of a winery in Prairie du Sac. Used to seeing small, cozy wineries on my cross country trip(…)
With history dating back to 1921, St. Julian stands at the forefront of United States’ 4th largest wine producing region. St Julian, like many other Michigan wineries, benefits from the natural protection of Lake Michigan. The warm lake water dissipate storms in the summer allowing vines to enjoy warm sprinkles of water and it does(…)
One thing about Sonoma wineries is that it is always filled with food and related fabulous tastings. Jacuzzi Family Vineyard impresses with the multitude of olive oil, which, if purchased, pairs perfectly with some bread and their wines. Their olive oil ranges in flavor from clementine, lime, jalapeno to Seville Extra Virgin, and I tasted every single(…)
Olympics is around the corner, with a majority of the Olympic trials concluding around the world, the suspense of the Olympic is building. Brewing with the same exciting, the Olympic committee announced the official Olympic wines of 2012. The red will be a a shiraz tempranillo from Brazil (the next host country), while both the white, a(…)