It’s time to get “fizzical” with today’s effervescent Wine Wednesday Wordologie vocabulary lesson. Class is now in session! This week we’re talking wine tasting–a specific king of tasting called a “horizontal tasting.” Why should you know about {and certainly participate in!} a horizontal wine tasting? You always ask the most wonderful questions! A horizontal tasting…
Let it be declared from the roof tops: I absolutely adore Grower champagnes! There’s something quite delightful and enchanting about sipping bubbly that was uniquely crafted by the very farmers who have nurtured and harvested the grapes from which the bubbly is made. “Champagne is champagne,” you say. “What’s the big deal with growers?” Well…
Just like many of you, at some point or the other I’m in various stages of pursuing my vision and goals in life, and because of that you can consistently find me doing 2 things: (1) journaling/writing {especially my ideas}; (2) learning/getting my knowledge up about the industries I want to make an impact in. That journaling…
One of the reasons that I wanted to do Wine Wednesday Wordologie is because terminology in the wine industry can really get a little bit confusing sometimes. The more education you have, the better choices are that you can make about what you enjoy drinking. After all, this whole site is dedicated to enjoying life more especially…
You’re ready to take a vacation. You want to go somewhere you haven’t been before and decide on Canada. You live in New York and have decided to drive. You don’t have the best sense of direction and, being the adventurer that you are, you’ve decided to not map out the trip–you know you’ve gotta…
So what do you do when #NationalDonutDay {or #NationalDoughnutDay} falls on a #FizzFriday? If you’re The Bubbleista you effortlessly combine the two and do a champagne and doughnut pairing, that’s what! Food holidays deserve to be celebrated, right? And bubbly is the quintessential celebratory quaff, no? So as far as I’m concerned there is every reason…
Last week we talked “Dosage” for #WineWednesday #Wordologie, and this week’s vocabulary word conveniently rhymes with it: Élevage. Just like last week’s, this week’s term is French in origin, which makes sense since champagne is French as well. This means that you might want to work on your French accent and pronunciation in order to say the…
Goodbye May, Helloooo June Sneak Peek! Summer is upon us and I couldn’t be more ready for it. After a winter that just refused to go away followed by weeks of almost daily rain, I’m ready for a new season of warmth and sun. I’m sure you are, too! So I didn’t quiiittteee get around to everything…
I just returned from a lovely, leisurely, luxury vacay in Mexico a couple of weeks ago and I promise that when I close my eyes I can still smell the surf; feel my body floating in the ocean; see the coral-colored sunsets; and taste the {numerous} pomegranate margaritas I sipped with abandon while lounging on my oceanfront…
Happy mid-week, my dears! I hope you have your pen & paper ready because it’s time for another #WineWednesday #Wordologie vocabulary lesson! Before we get started, I’ve been getting feedback from some of you {thank you–please keep it coming!} that you are really L-O-V-I-N-G this series, and that gives me great joy. It’s a wonderful…
** {in an official television announcer voice} We preempt the regularly scheduled “From A-to-Z” Motivation Monday post for today’s Mot Mon “special edition.” We will return to our regularly scheduled post programming next week with the letter “E.” {wink} For those of us living in the US, today {on the last Monday each May} we commemorate Memorial Day, a holiday…
One of the things I love most about going to wine tastings {in addition to the generous sipping opportunities, of course} is discovering a unique brand or bottle that I may not have discovered anytime soon on my own. Such was the case when I attended the “Summer Sparkling Wine: Alternatives to Champagne” event at a local…
It’s Friday, and that means time to talk fizz! In this week’s #WineWednesday #Wordologie I wrote about the lovely Spanish sparkling wine made in the traditional champagne method style, cava. So now that Wordologie has taught you all about this type of bubbly, let’s get down to the nitty gritty of what #FizzFriday is about and…
It’s Wednesday, and that means time for another #WineWednesday Wordologie, my dears! Last week’s #Wordologie edition found us delving into “C” vocab territory and, as I mentioned then, I decided we’d hang out with this letter for just a bit longer, hence the inclusion of “also” in my lovely little title. We’ve been at this…
“Image is everything.” “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress. Dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” We’ve all heard these quotes many times before, but who’d have thought that Andre Agassi; Will Rogers; and CoCo Chanel (respectively) would all subscribe to the same belief that…
Welcome to “Fizz Friday,” a new post series focused on the fizzy goodness you and I both love: champagne and sparkling wine. Beginning today, and most Fridays thereafter, I plan to focus posts on my champagne and sparkling wines discoveries and tasting notes; champagne cocktail recipes {both my original concoctions and some I’ve discovered}; interesting tidbits in the world of bubbly;…
Welcome to #WineWednesday Wordologie, my dears! If you’ve been keeping up with the site {well you have been visiting regularly, haven’t you?!} you already know I introduced this new series a couple of weeks ago in an effort to help us all get more comfortable in our champagne knowledge by increasing our effervescent vocabulary. If you need…
Is it just me or does this year already seem to be just zipping by right before our eyes {so fast in fact that I forgot to do an April sneak peek–oopsie!}? I can’t believe it’s already May and we are 5 months into 2015. Regardless of how much time has already passed, the good…
It’s #WineWednesday, and that means it’s time for another #Wordologie post! This is a new series that I introduced for the 1st time last week and, if preliminary feedback is any indication, it seems as though people really love it because it helps decrease the intimidation factor that champagne is often associated with. If this…
We are 2 words into this post and I can already hear some of you now: “Celebrate? I don’t have anything to celebrate…” Are you sure about that? Take a moment to really ponder the totality of your life’s circumstances before you say that you don’t. And for the record, I’m not talking about those…
