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All blog entries by oenochickBlog name: Wine and a Mukwonago girl Location: Mukwonago About me: Andy and I moved here, oh about nine years ago, from Seattle. I married a guy named Dave and then came Cam and Reece. I have worked in the restaurant and wine industry for a verrrry long time and currently I am a wine director for a local restaurant group. I just passed the advanced certification with the Court of Master Sommeliers and I am a member of the Society of Wine Educators. These some of the things I think about. Hopefully they might be funny and somewhat interesting..........or not. Rating statistics Average rating of my blogs: 4.9 Average rating of my Talkbacks: 5.0 Average rating I've given others: 4.9 |
| Recent blog entries | |
| Dining - Feb. 9, 2008 | |
| What's in a name? That which we call Morillon by any other name would smell like Chardonnay! | |
| Cencibel, Ulle de Llebre, Aragonez, Valepenas, Tinto de Toro, Tinto Pais and Tinto Roriz. What do all of these things have in common? Well they are all names for the same grape and with the exception of three of them, these are names for the same grape in the same country. And by no means are t... | |
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| Dining - Jan. 13, 2008 | |
| Cheers to Spanish Wine for the New Year | |
| Happy New Year!!!!! Oh wait………it’s like January 13th. Hhhmmmm….. darn it! But it IS a Happy New Year for the Johnson’s of Mukwonago. The mommy (me) has given up being a restaurant lifer and has gone to the other side. Which is the side that the majority of ... | |
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| Dining - Nov. 29, 2007 | |
| i vini di Piedmonte: il resto della storia | |
| So I was sitting in my car outside of a locally owned wine shop where I was going to meet a few of my contemporaries and taste through wines from Northern Italy. It was the start of what is going to be a "tasting group" organized by a local wine instructor. We were all going to bri... | |
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| Dining - Oct. 17, 2007 | |
| i vini di Italia | |
| Umanità. . . Possiede due benedizioni supreme. Primo di questi è il Demeter di dea, o la Terra qualunque nome che lei sceglie chiamarla da. Era lei che ha dato all'uomo il suo nutrimento di grano. Ma dopo che è venuta lí il figlio di Semele, che ha uguagliato il suo ... | |
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| Dining - Sept. 29, 2007 | |
| The wines of Autumn | |
| My youngest son just entered kindergarten and in the first week he had show and tell. The theme of show and tell that week was "Signs of fall". My first inclination, although I am not a crafty type of mom at all, was to go out and finds some leaves that were starting to turn. Press them... | |
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| Recent Talkbacks | |
| Article - Feb. 9, 2008 | |
| Personable Stephan introduces great wines | |
| Bobby, great critique! Although I have never been to Dream Dance, your articl... | |
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| Blog - Oct. 19, 2007 | |
| i vini di Italia | |
| Are Ruch di Castagnole Monferrato, Freisa d'Asti (or the other DOC Freisas) G... | |
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| Blog - Oct. 17, 2007 | |
| i vini di Italia | |
| Thanks Jimbob, that meant alot. :-) | |
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| Article - Oct. 15, 2007 | |
| Milwaukee's best steak, 2007: Five O'Clock Steakhouse | |
| OMG you have got to be kidding!?!?!?! I went there when I first moved to Milw... | |
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| Blog - Sept. 13, 2007 | |
| Vintages Change | |
| I didn't know that. The wine laws in Italy are very strict regarding cepageme... | |
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