grapenut grabbed some bub for happy hour at Mumm. Soooo pretty. Continue reading
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the adventures of grapenut, day 2!
grapenut is still rolling in wine country, documenting his journey to torture us along the way. Here’s his photo journal from Duckhorn and Pine Ridge (Stags Leap Disctrict) in Napa. Continue reading
the adventures of grapenut!
Grapefriends: meet grapenut! He likes wine, he likes fun and he likes torturing grapefriend when he’s in wine country and she isn’t. I get multiple daily texts all about the wineries he’s visiting and wines he’s drinking accompanied by notes like this: “In Glen Ellen, Sonoma today over my cousin’s and had a Pine Ridge … Continue reading
steak ‘n grape
Breaking News from fearless midwestern-turned-NYC reporters: the new Steak ‘n Shake serves wine! They also serve beer but who cares. So let’s take a look at this wine list: First we have a 2010 Bogle Chardonnay for $3.50. Bogle is barf. Plus I don’t want white wine with a burger. Scared. The second SnS offering is … Continue reading
favorite vintages, like kardashians and mark sanchez
This year marked grapefriend’s first vintage year – very exciting! I love seeing what posts people click on the most, and thought I’d share the year’s most popular as well as a few of my own favorites that didn’t make the list! 10 bravo’s bagless conspiracy – I’m as big a fan of Bravo as … Continue reading
chateau du weinstein
I love popcorn action flicks, and will defend Twister, Con Air and any Simpson Bruckheimer movie without hesitation. But when you ditch the cool effects and paint by numbers plots and go outside of the system, everyone gets all that great funky, quirky stuff – Pulp Fiction, Scream, Trainspotting. And that’s where grower Champagnes come in. Basically, farmers in … Continue reading
wine bottle christmas tree!
Merry Christmas, grapefriends!!! Thought you’d like a glimpse of the tree I made out of the bottles I drank this year. What a monument to merriment! Just kidding – I found this pic online. Don’t know what wacky grapefriend made this, but I love it! Hope you have a fantastic Christmas full of great wine … Continue reading
champagne sorbetnova
Everyone’s heard of putting your Champagne on ice – but in it? grapefriend likes the sound of that! This artisan ice cream place LA Creamery is making a Dom Perignon-infused sorbet this holiday season. Um, YUM. They made it last year too, but only used regular Dom. This year, they’re using 1990 vintage Dom (average cost: $300 … Continue reading
harold & kumar go to napa
Usually you chow down some White Castle after a rocking night of wine. Now, you might be graping it up with your slider. Full disclosure, never been a huge fan of the Castle. Their square patties weird me out and I’ve never loved the taste – Mickey D’s was always my jam. But they just … Continue reading
wine angels
In grapefriend’s world, absolutely anyone who serves me wine is an angel. But in some restaurants, Wine Angel is an actual job title. I first heard about wine angels when Aureole opened in Vegas. These women get strapped into a harness and are lifted up a huge wall of wine to grab whatever bottled was … Continue reading
