Bethenny Frankel, reality TV star and former Real Housewives cast member, is launching a Skinnygirl Wine to follow her madly successful Skinnygirl Margarita mix. Pandering to women’s incessant need to lose weight, these are touted as low-calorie. To me, it’s like the diet coke of wine. Skinnygirl will offer three low-calorie wines hailing from California […]
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Sh*t Bartenders Say
Bartenders, excuse me, mixologists have become a type of religious cult in the metropolitan US bar scene. This liquid loftiness comes with a pious lingo and snobbish exclusivity de reguir to the job description. As a bar and cocktail reviewer, I have heard everyone of these things plus a few others not included like, “I […]
Grapes of WRATH Wine in Steinbeck Country
“It’s Monterey County’s time to shine for quality wine,” says the feisty redhead winemaker of Wrath Wines, Sabrine M. Rodems. She explains with a bit of exasperation in her voice, “Monterey County has been producing great wines for sometime now, but we’ve never really been recognized for it. We were spared the storms that Napa, […]