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I think I’ve always enjoyed wine. In my early wine drinking years I stuck to mostly white wines as I didn’t like the taste or tartness of many red wines. Obviously as I’ve matured my tastes have changed and I now enjoy a good red wine as much if not more than a nice bottle of white wine.

I don’t actually drink a lot of wine. Perhaps a bottle or two between my husband and I once a month at the very most. Now, that our taste for wine has expanded we enjoy trying new wines. The problem is finding out which wines are good ones to try and which ones to stay away from at all costs! Usually we take recommendations from friends, waiters/ waitresses or when we are in the liquor store we’ll sometimes ask the staff which wine might be nice with whatever dinner we are planning.

I haven’t taken to reading many wine sites. They are often dry and don’t give me a good feel for whether I’d truly enjoy the wine or not. Now, having just said that I believe I might have found website that has Wine Reviews that I can trust.

The author of Redneck Wine Review proclaims to just be an ordinary person who doesn’t have any particular training in the tasting of wine and doesn’t have a refined palate. The “About” page on the site states “This blog is a down-to-earth look at a traditionally snobbish hobby of wine tasting and wine rating.”

I actually believe this is just the type of site I’ve been looking for as far as wine reviews go. I mean, look at my past behavior? When I’ve wanted wine recommendations in the past I’ve asked the average Joe who just might have happened to have tried some wines that I haven’t yet had a chance to taste. This Wine Review Blog seems to me to be just like getting a recommendation from the type of people that I’ve always taken recommendations from in the past.

The site is laid out nicely. It’s very easy to navigate and it has a search form at the top if you want to find out if a particular wine or type of wine has been reviewed in the past. I always give thumbs up to any kind of site that makes it easy for their visitors to move around the site easily and find things that interest them.

I don’t have any major suggestions for the site other than to keep doing what they are doing. The blog has been around since 2005 but it seems that it’s really only been a fully active site in the last two months. If the site owner keeps doing what they’ve been doing in the last while I think this could turn into a very nice review blog.

When I saw the title – Redneck Wine Reviews I wasn’t sure if would be a joke site or a real wine review site, but it most definitely is a very good wine review site.

The posts on the site are not all wine reviews. Some are stories about visits to Wine Country and their experiences in the small towns, restaurants, hotels and motels that they’ve stayed in as well as brief discussions of the wines that they had with meals. There are also reviews of wine tasting and wine making areas such as the review that’s currently on the main page of California Wine Hikes.

The wine reviews are short and sweet. The review and description ranges from the type of wine cork, to the make and year of wine, what food it was served with when tasted, it’s aroma, taste and the authors overall opinion of the wine. Some reviews also contain information about how the author came to be trying and reviewing that wine as well.

I believe that, like any food or drink, the taste of wine is subjective. Wines I love you may dislike. The Redneck Wine Review only proclaims to be one persons opinion of the wines reviewed on the site.

If you enjoy wine I think this site is worth bookmarking and visiting every now and then in order to see if a wine has been reviewed that you might like to try.





Planning our family reunion

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I’m helping to plan our family get together that’s set for the end of August and I spent about two hours last night trying to find Dinner Theaters in Toronto. Surprisingly there aren’t as many as I would have thought there would be.

My brothers and sister, their kids, kids spouses and or dates are all getting together for at least four days of jam packed fun! The three of us that are in the Toronto area are working together to plan all the things we’ll be doing. Along with going to a Blue Jays baseball game, we’ll be going to a dinner theater, on a dinner boat cruise and having a huge barbecue.

It should be a fun time!

We’ve got 6 people coming from Vancouver … well they’ll actually be coming from their Orlando rental home because they will be vacationing in Florida the week before our get together, then I think there’s 4 from Ottawa, 4 from Barrie and 12 from the Toronto area. That’s 26 people! I hope we can get some group discounts for some of the events we’re planning! That’d be cool.

Do you have a family reunion this year? Are you looking forward to it?

Book with Alegria if you are vacationing in the Canary Islands

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I’ve heard that Spain is a beautiful country to holiday in. Particularly the Canary Islands. If you’ve ever thought of visiting the Canary Islands you might want to visit Alegria.com. You will be able to get more information about the various islands in the form of tourist attractions, the culture, dining, beaches and accommodations.

Actually you can book your hotel room or other forms of accommodation directly through Alegria.com. They offer great service and prices.

Their staff have a wide knowledge of the local tourist industry since the staff have personally visited the premises listed on the Alegria.com website and have negotiated the best rates available for their clients.

You’ll probably also be pleased to know that when you book your accommodation through the Alegria website you’ll get an immediate confirmation.

Visit the site if you are planning a vacation to the Canary Islands.

Birds at the feeder

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This is a photo of some of the birds that are always in our back yard. We have two big feeders side by side that are quite large and these birds can eat them clean within two days. Or less!

Piggy birds!

Aren’t they pretty though? They don’t look like much from a distance but when you get a close up photo you can see all the different colors in the feathers on their bodies and heads.

I like the bird on the right who’s head is just poking around the corner. He or she seems to be saying – I see you, I know what you are up to!

Family reunion planning

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At the end of August we’re going to have a big family get together. My three brothers, my sister and all their kids are going to be coming to the Toronto area for a reunion week. We’re going to have a week of barbeque’s, fine dinning, and one of the days we are going to go on one of the Toronto dinner cruises on Lake Ontario.

Both of my parents are gone now and when my mother died in 2003 we all said that we’d make an effort to get together at least once a year. I don’t think we managed to do it in 2004 – but we’d spent a huge portion of the previous year together as my mother was dying. Work wise and probably emotional recovery wise we just weren’t able to do it.

In 2005 we got together in Ottawa. Our former hometown. We did the same last year for my aunts 80th birthday and this year it’s going to be in the Toronto area where three of us live now.

I’ve got a lot of planning to do. I’ve still got to book the cruise that we’re going to go on. I was thinking that we might go up north to Alora to see the Alora Gorge and to water tube down the river. That’s so fun!

Have you ever been tubing? We all went up there a number of years ago and tubed down the gorge. It was a really hot day so the cool water was beautiful!

Does your family have regular reunions?

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