Archive for 'Quick Sips'
Wineries, breweries round out Florida trip
By Patti Roth City & Shore Magazine Take a tour. Try an unfamiliar flavor. (Watermelon or avocado wine, anyone? Or ale infused with zesty orange?) There’s even a tomato wine, fermented with peppers. Dozens of wineries [...]
Sommelier picks top rose wines under $25
By Peg San Felippo City & Shore Magazine There’s never a bad time to drink pink, but no better way to chill out the warmer months ahead than with a cold glass of rosé. Full disclosure, [...]
A wine shopping list direct from wine judges
By Mark Gauert City & Shore Magazine Wines from California emerged from the smoke and fire that swept Sonoma and Napa counties last fall to take most of the medals this year at South Florida’s home-grown [...]
10 award-winning wines, and how to find them
By Peg San Felippo City & Shore Magazine One of my pet peeves is hearing about a terrific wine and then not being able to find it. So after this year’s American Fine Wine Competition in [...]
Distillers try rum with a twist of orange
By Patti Roth City & Shore Magazine For many of us, rum lives up to a well-deserved reputation as a party animal. We savor it in fun, fruity and sometimes neon-hued drinks at poolside soirées, on [...]
See summer through Rosé colored glasses
By City & Shore Magazine Whispering Angel 2016 (Côtes de Provence, France): Pink as a sunset – which, come to think of it, would be an excellent moment to sip it, poolside – this refreshing import [...]
Albariño: A wine to call our own?
By Mark Gauert City & Shore Magazine I know Florida produces wine, so please don’t write. I know some bottle tropical fruit here and call it “wine.” They ferment mangos and papayas and clementines, or whatever’s [...]
How to build an incredible wine cellar
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine There’s a little bump of a ridge that runs all the way from Miami to Georgia. It was a sand dune a few thousand years ago, when the Atlantic [...]
Luxury wine tastes at economy prices
By Bob Hosmon City & Shore Magazine When I started writing about wine (40 years ago this June), my readers mostly wanted to know how to avoid buying the “wrong” wine. They really didn’t want to [...]
Wine for lovers, and lower blood pressure?
By Bob Hosmon City & Shore Magazine While not everyone subscribes to the premise that consumption of red wine is why the French have lower rates of heart disease than some of their European neighbors (think [...]
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- An 'SOS' from WWE star Chris Jericho in Fort Lauderdale, MiamiThe Fozzy rocker talks music on the way to his band's Judas Rising Tour concert at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale.
- Louie Anderson, who plays a mother on TV, talks 'Baskets' and Louis C.K.The comedian will perform Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.
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- An 'SOS' from WWE star Chris Jericho in Fort Lauderdale, MiamiThe Fozzy rocker talks music on the way to his band's Judas Rising Tour concert at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale.
- Louie Anderson, who plays a mother on TV, talks 'Baskets' and Louis C.K.The comedian will perform Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.
Shopping & Beauty
- Wendy's: 5 free Frostys and a free hamburger with $1 Boo Book purchaseWendy's is selling Halloween Boo Books which contain five coupons for free Jr. Frostys for $1. Books support the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption which helps find families for children in foster care. The nonprofit says 85 cents from each purchase goes to the charity. The books, available for...
- Free flu shots for veterans at WalgreensVeterans can get free flu shots at Walgreens. The national pharmacy chain and the Veterans Administration are providing no-cost flu shots to vets who are enrolled in the VA health care system, according to a news release. Show a Veterans Health Identification Card and photo ID to get the immunization...
Sun Sentinel Breaking News
- 'Joke' school threats on the rise after Parkland massacreIt’s like a contagion that peaked after the Parkland school shooting and showed some signs of dying down. That is, until two new cases cropped up within the past week of threats being made against a school. A 13-year-old boy on Sunday threatened to “shoot up” Pines Middle School via an Instagram...
- In rare step for Supreme Court nominee, Kavanaugh sits for televised interview: 'I've never sexually assaulted anyone'Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared in a televised interview Monday that he never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or at any other time in his life. Kavanaugh and his wife, Ashley, sat down for an interview with Fox News Channel's "The Story with Martha MacCallum" after a second...
- Rod Rosenstein, the official overseeing the Russia probe, still has his job — at least until meeting with TrumpAfter a long weekend spent wondering if he should resign or would be fired, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein still has his job — for now. President Donald Trump gave Rosenstein a three-day reprieve pending their face-to-face White House showdown on Thursday. That's when the man who oversees...
