grapeinabottle

We are so excited at Casa Wine tonight because my wife found a great  wine accessory, the Elite Trudeau vacuum wine pump. This comes with two reusable wine toppers with indicators to ensure a complete seal, and can preserve your wine for up to a week. We have used other wine vacuum pump [...]

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I’m glad I had this bottle of Ashwood Grove Shiraz 2006 tonight.  I was registering for a work conference and discovered the hotel was fully booked.  Mrs. Grapeinabottle and I needed to find a solution to this dilemma. Wine always helps us brainstorm to a creative answer. The conference web site [...]

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And now for a different perspective, from the wifely half of grapeinabottle.
Because our daughter was off to the grandparents’ house for the evening (thank goodness!), Mr. grapeinabottle and I decided to try Pei Wei Asian Diner, a new restaurant in our neighborhood that had garnered good word of mouth from some of our friends.  On [...]

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I will be the first to categorize myself as a skeptic; to most questions,  I would normally answer no. Of course, people are always trying to get you to try their product by any means possible. We’ve all gotten the “open immediately; sensitive material enclosed” junk mail, or the new and improved version [...]

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I stumbled across this glass while looking for a decanter set for a wedding gift and thought I had to share this treasure.  This is a giant wine glass that holds an entire bottle of wine. It is very simple to use:  just pour your wine, get a nice book (or two), and enjoy.

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