by Nicole MacKay | Dec 14, 2020 | Wine, Sponsored Post
Wine is paradoxically one of the easiest and most difficult things to give as a gift. It can be a thoughtless, grab-and-go, hand-it-over absentmindedly in a wine bag kind of present. Or it can be an impactful buying decision, with meaning and significance. The...
by Nicole MacKay | Dec 9, 2020 | Sponsored Post, Wine
If you went into a wine shop today, could you confidently pick out a bottle of Champagne to buy? I ask whether it’s with confidence because for the amount of money a single bottle costs, shouldn’t you know what grapes are in it? Or how it even got its...
by Nicole MacKay | Dec 7, 2020 | Wine, Sponsored Post
It’s hard to buy anything of a certain quality these days for less than $25, let alone a wine that makes its way from another part of the world. Depending on where you live, a bottle travels through several hands before it lands on store shelves. And those hands...
by Nicole MacKay | Nov 29, 2020 | Wine, Sponsored Post
Are you someone that preps for the holiday season weeks in advance? Or do you a fly by the seat of your pants and hope to have an ounce of sanity left by December 24th? I’m somewhere in between the two. Although this year more than ever, I feel the need to get my...
by Nicole MacKay | Nov 22, 2020 | Wine
Despite all the bad things that came at the world this year, some of us have been lucky enough to experience silver linings. Never in our lives will we get to spend this much quality time with our children. We’ve had time to focus on ourselves and decide how to...
by Nicole MacKay | Nov 16, 2020 | Wine
Road 13 Chenin Blanc is one in a million. Scratch that, it’s actually three in a million. Road 13 Chenin Blanc, made from grapes grown on vines that are more than half a century old, is vinified three different ways. Not only are they the oldest Chenin vines in...
