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Gratitude in Each Day

Fish Eye Chardonnay Box White

If there’s one thing these past two years have taught us, it is that life is unpredictable. Find a way to be grateful for the blessings you have in each day. One never knows what the future will hold. Tell those you care for how much they mean to you. Treasure relationships. Follow your dreams.

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Happy New Year! Welcome to 2020!

Champagne Toast

I hope you and yours had a delightful, joy-filled celebration to leave behind 2019 and to welcome in 2020. There is so much to look forward to. So many amazing medical breakthroughs. So many opportunities for growth and improvement. The climate crisis is challenging but together we can find a solution. If we all take

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Is Old Wine Safe to Drink?

Is Old Wine Safe to Drink? Does it go Bad? Is Old Wine Safe to Drink? I get this question all the time. A person finds a bottle of wine stashed in a back attic corner or in the basement. It’s from 1950 or some earlier year. They are curious to try the wine –

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wing / lever style corkscrew

Someone mentioned they like using the wing / lever style corkscrew. I made a video of it here. It’s certainly better than the travel-type, but not as good as a Rabbit. This also shows the technique of using the corkscrew worm’s tip to carve open the foil capsule. What type of corkscrew do you use?

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How to Use a Self-Contained Travel Wine Corkscrew

This video shows you how to use – and the royal pain involved -with self-contained travel wine corkscrews. These are the corkscrews that look like a cylinder with a hole in the top. When you pull the outer sheath off, you see that there is the sheath – which becomes a handle – and then

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Screwpull Wine Bottle Foil Cutter

When you bring home a bottle of wine that has a cork enclosure, chances are that the top of the bottle will be protected by a foil or plastic sheathe. This sheathe keeps the cork from getting dirty or moldy. It also helps protect it from mice or other small creatures eating away at the

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Turning Leaf Wine Thermometer Bottle Collar

You don’t have to be a wine snob to understand that wine tastes better when it’s at least reasonably close to its right temperature. The question is how to keep an eye on that, when the wine is typically trying to warm up to room temperature which could easily be TOO warm for the wine.