The Gift Exchange

Oregon and Washington have an established reputation for some of the best wine in the world.  If you are fortunate enough to live or visit the Pacific Northwest, you have a unique opportunity to make a trip out to wine country and explore the  dazzling array of  top-notch wineries each region has to offer. Oregon’s Willamette [...]

All around the world, people gather together every December 31 to celebrate the passing of the old year and the commencement of the next. This New Year’s Eve, dazzle all of your fellow party guests with your amazing knowledge of New Year’s celebrations past and present! Kick back with a holiday-themed Personalized Wine Gift, a [...]

Let’s face it, men have it pretty easy in the Christmas shopping department. Women love flowers, spa products or jewelry almost without exception. Women also have to decide every year what on earth to buy for the men in their lives. Men aren’t quite as simple to shop for; it isn’t always golf weather or [...]

The holiday season is upon us and around each day presents a new temptation for the taste buds. From the smells of pumpkin pie and gingerbread that seem to be wafting out of every oven to the beautifully photographed entrees that grace the cover of every magazine in the checkout line, this season is heaven [...]

Blog by Linda Wallace Every year. EVERY YEAR. I find myself in the middle of December, thinking about all the Christmas shopping I have left to do, dreading the stores, dreading the expense, dreading the stress! We all know the way to avoid this, so why don’t we make an effort to try to get our holiday [...]

Blog by Kirian McClure Election Day is almost upon us! I’m surely not the first to tell you that this is an important election, one that folks on both sides of the ticket are fired up about.  You probably didn’t come to this blog to read about politics, but regardless of whether your chosen candidate wins [...]

As an adept Francophile and amateur oenophile, I could give an entire lecture on the exceptional quality of French wine, the folk philosophy of terroir that has produced grape varietals and blends perfectly suited to the microclimate of each region or strict laws of the Appellation d’Origine Controlée (Name of Controlled Origin) that oversee the [...]

Birthdays, everyone has one. Some look forward to them, others try to avoid them at all cost. Me? I like to say that I am somewhere in the middle, but in reality I love a good party and while I truly love everyone giving me presents (What? At least I am honest about it!), the [...]

I know that some people can be intimidated by wine. There are so many choices, so many things to remember, and so many varietals to pick from that it can be hard to know where to start. I talked about common wine terms and my own personal wine journey. Now I’d like to dig a [...]

I have never been married myself, but I’ve had the pleasure of going to a lot of my friends’ weddings.  I’ve found through experience that giving the right present is difficult in this day-and-age when most couples getting married already live together and have everything they need for their home. The best thing you can [...]