Hip Tastes Blog

As my own sis is about to be hitched, I took due inspiration for this latest piece for WineCountry.com from the many activities that lead up to and really make a wedding an EVENT. Yes, you can see that this maid of honor is officially in full wedding-planning-assistance mode, so when WineCountry asked me to pen a piece on the topic I was, let's just say, READY. Enjoy!

"As every bride-to-be knows, a wedding is about much more than just the ceremony - it's also about the many special occasions (Dress shopping! Shower! Bachelorette!) leading up to "the big event." What's more, every oeno-inclined bride-to-be also knows that each and every one of these occasions is destined to be still more memorable when paired with the perfect glass of wine. In this spirit, read on for our complete list of wine suggestions for weddings - as well for all of the associated fetes that come before happily ever after.

(List includes wines for:)
The Proposal
The Engagement
The Dress
The Shower
The Bachelorette
The Rehearsal
The Cocktail
The Dinner
The Toast
The Honeymoon"

Read it here!

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This just in from Robert Camuto, a very nice American dude who moved to France a while back and became enamored of - you guesses it! - French wine. In a blog post just up that inspired the title of my own, the good scribe writes:

"I love un-pimped wines that reflect their place and vintage, and I don't want to see them limited to a ghetto of Parisian Bobos (bohemian bourgeois) and international hipsters. Going fundamentalist will only turn off the next generation and push them towards the next thing. Like martinis."

Amen. I reviewed Camuto's recently released book, Corksrewed, a bit back at WineCountry.com. Check it out here.

And for the full Fear and Loathing piece from the man himself, head over to his blog to read it.

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