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Mom Will Feel Like a Princess with Kate Middleton’s Sauvignon Blanc

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Kate Middleton’s Sauvignon Blanc
Mom may be a commoner, but she can at least drink like a princess for Mother's Day without it costing Dad and family a king's ransom. The night before her wedding to Prince William, Kate Middleton (now the Duchess of Cambridge) dined with close friends and family at the Goring Hotel in London’s Belgravia district. According to US Weekly, she chose the rather unpretentious Casa Lapostolle Sauvignon Blanc 2009 (costs about $50) to pair with her salmon blini starter, and entrée of steak Chateaubriand. Kate Middleton's Sauvignon Blanc Cont'd

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Cupcake Wine: Sex & the City, Wine Pairings and Harry Potter

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Is it just me, or are cupcakes (or more precisely cupcake sellers) everywhere? Cupcakes are suddenly everybody's favorite dessert and every baker wannabe is trying to sell them. And if a budding entrepreneur is not selling them directly, they're trying to brand a product with the name to take advantage of the uptrend. It all started with Sex & the City and NYC's Magnolia Bakery. As Sex & the City's rabid fans tried to be more like Carrie and the girls and Magnolia gained exposure on tv and in the movies, it started a gourmet cupcake feeding frenzy. Cupcake Wine Cont'd

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The Wine Cellars at Corsham – A Literal Liquid Gold Mine

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Forget about wine cellar equipment for their McMansions, the super rich have an underground wine vault 100ft under the Wiltshire countryside in Southern England. Formerly Eastlays mine, a source of honey-colored Bath stone, it is now Octavian Vaults's Corsham Cellars, the place where the rich and famous hoard their most precious bottles of Petrus, Lafite or Latour. It's like a bank storing liquid gold and run by one of the world’s relatively few specialist wine storage companies. Octavian Vaults is the only place you can get a "Certificate of Pristine Storage". The Wine Cellars at Corsham Cont'd

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Posted in Wine Cellar