In Wine Country
50-80lbs of honey can turn might be 50 gallons of wine
Sweet Meed
Meedery
Drums full of honey
Orange aroma from the flower
Oak barrels
2-3 year aging some 7 years
Mead – take honey dilute with water, and add yeast and ferment, then like an other wine.
Mead has to be sweet is a misperception, can be very dry and sweet
The French Laundry – used his wine, real product not niche.
Chocolate Factory;
Brent Madsen
Annettes Choclate
Blends wines with chocolate – thriving business, chocolate truffles, infusing wine into chocolates, in Napa valley
love of deserts
Chocolate and Ice Cream Factory
Old favorites, brittle, mint truffle
1,000 truffles per tray
waterfall of chocolate
agie salinas
arrowood , grand archer
bear brittle – acne bear – peanuts into brittle raw, moving quicky onto markble , salted, hops in bear
try them all at Annettes in Napa
What is corkage – Fee for bringing your own wine – decanting, fees for glasses, air conditioning,
inwinecountry.com
Rubs, Vinagers, etc..
Text WINE to 22911 to participate in the local wine groups and receive tips and more.
Cooking in an outdoor kitchen,
seans and rubs, grilled corn, bread, whole meal outdoors,
Catherine Bergen
Tulocay & Co., Inc.
101 S. Coombs St.
Napa, California 94559
707-253-7655
Napa
tulocans, look inside first, think about what you like to eat, make it an extension outside,
you don’t have to spend as much,
sink and grill are key
appetizer – bagette,
veggie rub
2010 LA Marathon Course Change- Santa Monica needs to hear you!
2010 Los Angeles Marathon
Santa Monica City Council needs to hear from you!
Dear Los Angeles Marathon Participant:
We’re almost exactly where we want to be with this great (and soon to be greater!) race. The Los Angeles Marathon will take place on Sunday, March 21st, 2010 on a Stadium-to-Sea course. This route will highlight the icons of Los Angeles, and we’d like to include Santa Monica on that list.
This Tuesday, July 28th the Santa Monica City Council will vote on whether to allow the Los Angeles Marathon to run through Santa Monica. Would you please sign this petition urging the Santa Monica City Council to give their thumbs up to that concept? Santa Monica will be an important and great part of the new LA Marathon, and you can help us get there!
We appreciate your time and assistance and hope to see on the road!
Russ Pillar
President
Los Angeles Marathon
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Los Angeles Tasting
The Rhone Rangers ride into Los Angeles for our annual trade & consumer tasting on Sunday, August 9, 2009. Please join us for an afternoon of tasting of over 150 Rhone Rangers wines, paired with antipasto appetizers by Food Fetish, at our newest venue, Pier 59 Studios West in Santa Monica. Pier 59 Studios West is a private multimedia and photography studio servicing the Los Angeles & Hollywood markets, whose facilities have been used for photographing everyone from Victoria’s Secret lingerie models to Madonna.
Sunday, August 9, Consumer Tasting
Time: 2-5 PM, General Admission. There are also a limited number of VIP Tickets available for consumers to attend the 12 noon – 2 PM Trade & Media event (see pricing below).
Who: 44 Rhone Rangers winery members will pour their wines.
Place: Pier 59 Studios West, 2415 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, CA
Cost: $35 General Admission, 2-5 PM $40 after July 31, $65 VIP Tickets, 12 noon – 5 PM. BUY GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS NOW.
This is a rare opportunity to taste over 150 wines, speak to the winemakers and enjoy Hollywood’s most advanced digital arts/photography studios at Pier 59 Studios West. At the conclusion of the event, head west to the beach (a short drive from Pier 59 Studios West), to watch sunset over the Pacific at the Santa Monica beachfront.
Sunday, August 9, Trade/Media VIP Tasting
This is a trade, media & VIP-only event.
Time: 12 noon – 2 PM
Who: 44 Rhone Rangers winery members will pour their wines.
Place: Pier 59 Studios West, 2415 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, CA
Cost: Free to all qualified trade & media. VIP consumer tickets available for $65 (only 50 consumer VIP tickets available). BUY VIP CONSUMER TICKETS NOW.
Trade & Media Registration: Contact Lauren Formicola of PR Matters at 206.281.5555, send email to rsvp@prmatters.com, or register online.
Participating Wineries
10 Knots : Adelaida : Anglim : Arroyo Robles : Barrel 27 : Bink : Bridlewood : Calcareous : Cass : Clavo : Cline : Curtis : Eberle : Ecluse : Edward Sellers : Epiphany : Four Vines : Halter Ranch : Harrison Clarke : Hug Cellars : J Lohr : Jada : Justin : Kaleidos : Katin : Kenneth Volk : Koehler : L’Aventure : Lone Madrone : Meyer Family : Minassian-Young : Ortman Family : Outpost : Qupe : Rocca : Sarah’s Vineyard : Skylark : Tablas Creek : Terry Hoage : Treana : Verge : Vina Robles : Zaca Mesa : Zefina
More Info and Reservations
Have questions? Call us at 800 467-0163. Winery Registration
Winery Registration takes place from May 11-June 22. Registration materials will be sent via email to all current Rhone Rangers winery members. If you’d like to become a member and pour at this event, please contact us at 800 467-0163.
Coyote Grill A State of Baja at the Beach.
Coyote Grill brings to Laguna Beach tthe ambiance and style of a Baja Eater. Our seafood and steak offerings are the frshest available and served in what we call “Baja Style” They are prepared simply and tastefully and with a “south of the border” flavor. We hope our home along the sea becomes yours as well. When we open our doors, we open our hearts.
Salud Amigos
Kim “Cayote” Bryant
949 499-4033
31621 Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
We Accept Mastercard, Visa, and American Express.
Sorry no personal checks
Extra plate charge $2.50. We use only pure vegetable oils, for health.
We Recycle – for planet’s sake
Breakfast served from 7am – 12 noon Monday thru Friday and Saturday and Sunday as well.
Lunch – served from 12 noon – 5pm
Dinner served 5pm – 9pm
A gratuity may be added for parties larger than 6
Website
https://www.coyotegrill-lagunabeach.com/
Menu
https://www.coyotegrill-lagunabeach.com/menus.html
Coyote Grill (Laguna Beach, CA)
You asked for it and you got it. Taco Tuesday starts next week. All tacos will be on our Happy Hour. We’ve also added Ceviche to the Happy Hour Bar Menu. Happy Hour is now happier. Come in and see Steve. More specials to come.
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Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos.com
1. Obsess over customers!
Obsess over customers way ahead of obsessing over competitors! Work backwards. It will cover a lot of areas.
2. Invent – figure out a solution to a problem. believe you can get out of a box. listen to customers. invent on the behalf of customers.
Kindle, cloud, small things too.
3. Think long term: critical, any company that focuses on customers, have to be willing to invest. some initiatives may take 5-7 years. Take a long time to pan out for shareholders. Very useful foward thinking. Willingness to not be understood. Amazon.toast, amazon.con, some not appropriate, be prepared, if you think you are right, continue.
Zappos long admired by Jeff. Customer obsession. Key factor by Jeff.
It’s always day 1. It’s a new start every day!
Great video.
Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos
CHEAP
The High Cost of Discount Culture
By Ellen Ruppel Shell
296 pp. The Penguin Press. $25.95
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Shapiro-t.html
Laura Shapiro is the author of three books including “Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.”