Archive for October, 2014

Midnight Red and Berry Vodka for Haunted House Party

Midnight Red and Berry Vodka for Haunted House Party

Happy Halloween!  Looking for that something special to serve at your Haunted House Party? We’ve unearthed these two devilish delights to get your spirits lifted:     – 2013 Menage a Trois MIDNIGHT Dark Red Blend California $14.99 A deeply fruity, silky, smooth and ripe, almost port-like red wine. – Menage a Trois Berry Vodka […]

Pere Ventura Cava – A Beautiful Sparkling Wine for $15

Pere Ventura Cava – A Beautiful Sparkling Wine for $15

Cava is the popular and very well-priced Spanish sparkling wine which is similar to Champagne in production and aging but made with indigenous grapes. The most noble grape, Xarello (say “Cha – reh- lo”) is the bones, or the structure, while Macabeo is the meat or flesh. Parellada comes into the mix, as well as […]

Sicily’s Donnafugata Winery

Sicily’s Donnafugata Winery

Giacomo and Gabriella Rallo along with their daughter Jose and son Antonio launched Donnafugata Winery in 1983 both at the family’s historic cellars in Marsala and at their Contessa Entellina vineyards in the heart of western Sicily. “Donnafugata,” or “woman in flight,” refers to Queen Maria Carolina, wife of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, who sought […]