TIPSY TOURIST: Ashes and Diamonds
While the hills above their vineyards blazed hot and red, Ashes and Diamonds employees were getting ready to open the tasting room for the first time. When neighboring wineries couldn’t get […]
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TIPSY TOURIST: Waiheke Island, NZ
Our trip was not the ideal. Heavy clouds loomed overhead. At first they threatened but then they opened up and drenched everything in sight. There was no way of staying […]
TIPSY TOURIST: Wine and film at Coppola
Fascinated by film, and amazed by Sonoma wines, I had to stop at Francis Ford Coppola’s Sonoma winery on our recent visit to California’s wine country. In fact, reservation at the restaurant […]
A night away in a railway car
I had a chance to sleep in a caboose. And I jumped on it. I saw the photo on the website of that lovely room with the curved ceiling, that […]
TIPSY TOURIST: Napa and Sonoma. So many choices
How do you decide where to stop on the Silverado Trail or Route 29 in the Napa Valley or in Sonoma along Route 12 or 101? So many wineries! Such […]
TIPSY TOURIST: Triple Creek Winery
We needed to get away from the beach traffic on Route 50 and Route 404 when we stumbled on Triple Creek Winery, a family winery in teeny Cordova in Talbot County, Maryland. […]
New Orleans’ tribute to southern food and drink
New Orleans, some will tell you, is all about the food. And I admit I made my dinner reservations weeks before I arrived for my recent visit. But I also […]
