Passover and Kosher Wine: Time to Graduate from Manischewitz

Growing up, my attendance at Passover seders was spotty at best, not for any lack of cajoling or even demands on my mother’s part. I suppose we hadn’t ever gone regularly enough for it to feel like a family tradition, so despite all the usual methods …

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Wishbone Wine Label Design

Brief: To create a simple and distinctive wine label for the Wishbone brand out of wine out of Marlborough in NZ. It is a mainstream wine that needed to be remembered from the 1000’s of labels on shelves throughout the world.
Solution: The label is simple and clean. 2 wishbones form a large W in the [...]

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How to make California exciting

I wrote yesterday that the California wine industry has been a little less than exciting lately, and let me tell you, a lot of people disagreed with that. Hardy Wallace asked, “Steve- What would excite you?” Brendan, at pinotphiles.com, told me to “use your imagination [to] come up with a ‘wish list’ of sorts.” When [...]

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Chinese Goose Liver Sausage Steamed Over Rice

I love my rice cooker. But I didn’t really know this consciously until the day I found out that outside of my little sphere of existence it is considered a single-use appliance, a uni-tasker, a *gasp* non-necessity. Truth be told, I never even thou…

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A Wine for Tonight: 2009 Saviah Cellars The Jack Cabernet Sauvignon

Would you like a quick suggestion for a good wine to drink tonight (or this weekend) that won’t break your budget and is widely available? Many of our readers have said this is something they would like, so here is this week’s selection, the 2009 Saviah Cellars The Jack Cabernet Sauvignon from the Columbia Valley [...]

A Wine for Tonight: 2009 Saviah Cellars The Jack Cabernet Sauvignon was originally posted on Wine Peeps. Wine Peeps – Your link to great QPR wines from Washington State and beyond.

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