by Heather Lipp | Feb 18, 2016 | Advice, Recommendations, Uncategorized
Perhaps the most popular question readers have put to me since I’ve started the blog is: what is the best boxed wine? This is a tricky question for me to answer, considering I’ve actively avoided boxed wine since college. But, in the name of ‘science’, I...
by Heather Lipp | Feb 2, 2016 | Advice, Recommendations, Uncategorized
We’ve often heard that when people taste wine blind from a completely opaque (black) glass, they often can’t tell a red wine from a white wine. Is this just an urban legend, a myth? Or is it actually true? My husband and I decided to buy some black wine glasses and...
by Heather Lipp | Dec 28, 2015 | Advice, Holiday, Recommendations, Uncategorized
My husband does not “get” Champagne. He’s willing to take a sip now and again to try something new, but that’s normally as far as he’ll go. I don’t recall him ever having an entire glass of Champagne. This is true not only of Champagne, but also...
by Heather Lipp | Dec 22, 2015 | Advice, Holiday, Uncategorized
Christmas + A Christmas Story + Chinese Take-Out = Fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra My husband grew up Jewish so he typically had the Jewish staple meal of Chinese food on Christmas. As I did not grow up Jewish, the idea is a bit foreign to me, but this year I decided to...
by Heather Lipp | Dec 15, 2015 | Advice, Recommendations, Uncategorized
Help! I’m going to a party, the hosts are really into wine, and I only drink Yellow Tail It’s holiday time, so I thought it fitting to start my blog off with some advice to those who never know what wine to bring. I feel relatively qualified to speak on this...