Women of Wine – WoW I
For my first entry on the WoW – Women of Wine, I have chosen my mentor to be the Madame Veuve Clicquot. Madame Clicquot was born in 1777 Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin. She was married at 21 to François Clicquot whose businesses were involved in banking, wool trading, and Champagne. His untimely death six years after their marriage in 1805 left Barbe-Nicole une veuve, or a widow. Fortunately for the world of sparkling wine, Madame Clicquot successfully developed her husband’s Champagne business into the elite Champagne company that still bears her name today, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin,...
Read MoreKelowna, BC – Land of the VQA
We’re off for some Labor Day adventures Canadian style. Do they even celebrate Labor Day in Canada? So, it’s me, the queen of mum, the Fiddler in the Valley, and John Cleese on our way to the Canadian border in the Okanogan Valley. The whole time I had imagined the Canadian wine country made of ice wines to be covered in snow and ice, I was completely surprised to find that it was nearly exactly the same as the rest of the mountain deserts of eastern Washington. The only difference, perhaps only to a trained eye, might be the density of evergreen trees and lava formations...
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Dare I (WineGirl, little ol’ me) start a blog topic about Women in Wine? I shall, I will. But only because I have decided a mentor is what I need. And since I have no mentor currently, nor do I know of any potential mentors, I am on the prowl for a model mentor to help guide my ridiculous vision and shed light upon my unlit path. Do I have mentor requirements? No. But yes, maybe, I suppose. I guess I want her to be female, i.e. the title. I almost want her to be deceased, if that’s not morbid; but that might require research into the indiscriminate past… a past in a library...
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