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Mother’s Day is on May 9 this year. This is a great day to celebrate our real moms plus other women in our lives who are near and dear to us. If you have wine-loving moms on your list, I would love to help you out with some wonderful wine gifts.
[Read more…]Happy Passover! This is the Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jews being freed from slavery in Egypt some 3,500 years ago. During the holiday, we have all kinds of fun observances, including eating matzoh (unleavened bread) and all kinds of other wonderful foods like charoset, an apple/nut/cinnamon/wine mix that is meant to symbolize the mortar used by the Israelite slaves when they laid bricks for Pharaoh’s monuments. On the first two nights of the holiday, we have a ritual meal called a seder where, believe it or not, we are supposed to drink four glasses of wine! When I was a child, those four glasses were sweet, syrupy Manischewitz concord grape wine. Thankfully, as an adult, I’ve gotten to enjoy many wonderful Passover wines. They probably existed when I was a kid, but my family was really into the tradition of sweet alcoholic juice.
Every year, I enjoy sharing some of my favorite happy holiday memes as a way to bring fun to the holidays. Given the disaster that was 2020, the need for happy holiday memes is greater this year than ever before. I’ll start my blog with some dark COVID-19 memes but will follow those up with some truly fun holiday memes. I hope this causes you to smile and maybe even giggle. And I hope you are able to share this with the people in your household. As always, if you have any happy holiday wine memes that you can share with me, I would be grapeful.
[Read more…]For those of you who celebrate Hanukkah, Happy Hanukkah! For those of you don’t celebrate, Happy Hanukkah to you as well. Hanukkah is the holiday of lights, and goodness knows we could all use some light in our lives right now. One of the many blessings of Hanukkah is the foods we eat: latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts). The common theme of these two foods is oil, which ties closely to the Hanukkah miracle where a vat of oil that was only supposed to last a day lasted eight days – enough time for more oil to be found to light the synagogue. Today, we’re going to look at Hanukkah wine pairings. We’ll focus on which wines go best with latkes and sufganiyot. Thank you to Food&Wine, JustWineApp, Tablet and Israel21C for their help with this article.
