Archive for September 2016
A Taste of South Dakota
On our mission to taste wines from throughout the country, our first stop was in the Black Hills of South Dakota. As a colder climate that isn’t particularly conducive to vinifera grape-growing, our experiences found that wines produced from hybrid grapes and fruit were most prevalent, with some vinifera varieties produced using mostly fruit grown in other regions. Our…
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We are now officially almost three weeks into our travels and it alternately seems like we left yesterday and six months ago. There has definitely been a bit of adjusting to our new lifestyle- everything from learning how to sleep with a large 95-pound furry bed hog in a queen-sized bed to figuring out how to…
Read MoreWhy Are We Visiting Wineries?
For the past seven to twenty years (depending on which one of us you ask), our lives have been consumed mostly by wine. Don’t get us wrong, we have loved it- even on the days when it’s 95 degrees and you’re using hands, shovel, or anything you can find to move Sauvignon Blanc grapes aside…
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