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It’s hard not to love Thanksgiving, a holiday that’s all about appreciating what we have, spending quality time with family and friends, and enjoying wonderful food and wine. To help make your celebration even more fun this year, I would like to make four wine recommendations: [Read more…]
In “Personalized Wines Make Great Holiday Gifts,” I highlighted the benefits of personalized wines for gift giving. Today, I’m showing off a sampling of the great personalized wine labels from WineShop At Home’s photo library. While I encourage people to use their own photos, I have to say that our photos make really fun gifts. Please note that you can add a personal message to your photo, whether you use one of ours or one of your own. And you can put your words on the photo, to the right of the photo, to the left of the photo, or above or below the photo. The sky is the limit. This is your opportunity to have a little fun and delight your gift recipients.
The focus of this article is personalized wine labels for holiday gifts. If you are looking for personalized wines for other occasions, please visit my Personalized Wine Labels page. [Read more…]
It’s time to pick out your wines for celebrating Thanksgiving. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. Sparkling wine is your best bet!
Stacy Slinkard, Wine Expert with About.com, says it well. “From appetizers, to white and dark turkey meat, mashed potatoes, yams, herb-filled stuffing, cranberry relish, pickled this and peppered that, all the way to pumpkin or pecan pie – is there truly a single wine that can take you seamlessly from start to finish? Enter, sparkling wines – an increasingly popular pairing partner… Sparkling wines bring both elegance and phenomenal food-pairing versatility to virtually any meal, but with Thanksgiving these wines really shine.” [Read more…]
Happy Thanksgiving! In honor of this great holiday, I would like to provide you with some tips for enjoying wine on Thanksgiving. These tips are meant to help take the stress out of selecting wines for your Thanksgiving feast. I hope you enjoy this video, and I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration. [Read more…]
