Partnered post Who doesn’t like knowing juicy secrets? Well. Let me let my readers in on one: One of my best buddies, the…
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Bordeaux Memories and Stream of Consciousness Tasting Notes
by Gail Sotelo November 1, 2023partnered post “Wait, so just out of curiosity, what do your tasting notes look like?” asked Chad, my husband of almost 12 years,…
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Bringing The Gin Party To The South!
by Gail Sotelo December 13, 2019“I’m bringing the party to you,” said my good friend Kia Rasing, who I jokingly call “the hardest working woman in Apotheke Craft…
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In the immortal words of Tom Hiddleston in one of his tweets (pre-HiddleSwift, of course), sometimes I feel that “I am a lucky…
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I admit that the wine geek in me was genuinely excited upon receiving an invitation to the A Year In Bordeaux event held…
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A Week of Wine and Women
by Gail Sotelo November 29, 2017At the risk of sounding incredibly narcissistic, I have been fielding messages asking me where I was last week. Before I answer this…
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“Here in Saint-Émilion at Angélus on our ancestor’s land, vines and wine are like a religion, a passion shared by the whole family.”…
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A respected Hong Kong wine connoisseur perfectly summed up the essence of Château Haut-Bailly by saying, “You know a person knows his wine…
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New Year, Clean Slate
by Gail Sotelo January 11, 2017I believe in starting the year with a clean slate, so here’s my first confession of the year: I struggled with this article.…
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On People, Personalities, and Wine – Part 2: Château du Tertre and Château Giscours
by Gail Sotelo November 18, 2016It takes a certain level of passionate storytelling, poetic eloquence, amazing visualisation, empathy, enthusiasm, and technical skill to translate wine from simple abstract…