Wine and Art: March 20- April 19, 2010
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Begin your Spring with us and take part in a one of a kind wine and art colorandaroma experience.
If you are an artist, please send your contact information and samples of your work to art@colorandaroma.com for a chance to be featured!
Stay tuned for more…
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Wine Find: Elk Cove Vineyards
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Elk Cove Vineyards 2008 Willamette Valley Pinot Gris
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The Spring 2010 Alternative Season!
Filed under Beyond Wine, Blog: Tendril, Entertainment, Style, Travel
Hold on to your wine glasses everyone because colorandaroma is going places where no wine website has ever gone before.
We will be elegantly blending wine, art, music and entertainment from March 20 through June 20, 2010!
Stay tuned for our special guest contributors…
Cheers,
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Pairing on Canvas: Merging Food, Wine and Art
Pairing on Canvas: Merging Food, Wine and Art
By Liz Goldner
At the turn of the last century, French artists and art lovers uninhibitedly imbibed in the pleasures of fine food, wine and art.
These incurable sybarites, including Monet, Renoir, Matisse and Toulouse-Lautrec, lived life to the hilt, creating Impressionist canvases throughout the day, cooking up a feast [...]
Newport Beach, CA Summer Travel 2010!
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Join us this Summer for an up-close look at Newport Beach, CA and other hot cities in the States and overseas. Stay tuned for more details on other colorandaroma Summer destinations…
Cheers!
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To Pair or Not to Pair Is Not the Question. The Question Is How?
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To Pair or Not to Pair Is Not the Question. The Question Is How?
Pass the Cheese Please!
Experts talk about wine and cheese
by Dennis Myers
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, an English journalist and writer born in the 19th Century, once rued, “The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” Fast-forward to today’s culinary scene and [...]
Gold in the Fields- The Very Reserved Napa Valley Reserve
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Gold in the Fields
The Very Reserved Napa Valley Reserve
By Dennis Myers
Photography by Colin Michael
Gazing wistfully over a field of wine vines basking in the warm sun of Napa Valley, you can’t help imagining yourself as a wine baron overlooking your fields of gold clad in dusty but custom-crafted work boots, tastefully wrinkled chinos with a rugged [...]
Grape Species: The Blending of Two Worlds
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Grape Species:
The Blending of Two Worlds
By Brandon J. Beeson
The subjects of wine and Hollywood have been swirling around in my mind for some time now. My dilemma was how to mend the two topics in a way that’s never been done before – merge the best of two worlds. Through a couple of phone calls [...]
Regional Wine Information Found Here!
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Want to check out a new wine region or learn more about the area which produced your most recent favorite bottle? From Temecula to Puget Sound, discover the wide variety of wine regions by exploring these links.
Amador Vintner’s Association
Anderson Valley Winegrowers
Carneros Wine Alliance
Finger Lakes Wine Country
Lodi-Woodbridge Winegrape Commission
Monterey County Vintners and Growers Association
Napa Valley Vintners
Orange [...]
“Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard” by Larry Levis
An excerpt of a poem by Larry Levis, available here and here.
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Picking grapes alone in the late autumn sun—
A short, curved knife in my hand,
Its blade silver from so many sharpenings,
Its handle black.
I still have a scar where a friend
Sliced open my right index finger, once,
In a cutting shed—
The same [...]
