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About thewineraconteur

A non-technical wine writer, who enjoys the moment with the wine, as much as the wine. Twitter.com/WineRaconteur Instagram/thewineraconteur Facebook/ The Wine Raconteur

“Oops” – Monthly Wine Writing Challenge #4

Posted on October 22, 2013 by thewineraconteur

“Oops” is not the word you want to hear from your surgeon or for that matter from your Certified Public Accountant.  We are having the fourth installment of the “Monthly Wine Writing Challenge” and the theme of “Oops” has been … Continue reading →

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North at Kierland Commons

Posted on October 20, 2013 by thewineraconteur

Sometimes the thirst must be self inflicted to leave one city in a desert Las Vegas to go to another desert in Arizona, and the temperature was about twenty degrees hotter as well.  I still get thirsty just thinking about … Continue reading →

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Seeing My Cousin in Pheonix

Posted on October 18, 2013 by thewineraconteur

As we bid our children and grandchildren adieu in Las Vegas, we boarded another plane to visit one of my cousins that lives in the Phoenix area for dinner and then we were going to go see an old friend … Continue reading →

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Sedona

Posted on October 16, 2013 by thewineraconteur

I am not going to talk about the painted desert of Sedona, rather a restaurant by that name in the city of Las Vegas.  Our last night there, we had dinner with the entire family that resides out there, with … Continue reading →

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A Barbeque in Summerlin

Posted on October 14, 2013 by thewineraconteur

Two of our children live in Las Vegas, in a community known as Summerlin.  Summerlin is a 22,500-acre master-planned community under development by The Howard Hughes Corporation in the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada near the Spring Mountains and Red … Continue reading →

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View Wine Bar & Kitchen

Posted on October 12, 2013 by thewineraconteur

We were taking a leisurely stroll shopping and we were working up a thirst.  Up on the second floor above a restaurant was a floor of little boutiques and a wine bar.  We had stumbled onto View Wine Bar & … Continue reading →

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Wicked Spoon

Posted on October 10, 2013 by thewineraconteur

One of the newer hotels on The Strip is The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.  My daughter wanted us to try the buffet called Wicked Spoon.  She described it as a buffet that was more akin to a tasting menu, rather … Continue reading →

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A Very Unique Day

Posted on October 8, 2013 by thewineraconteur

Due to the new rules of air travel, one never knows how to plan.  There was no traffic encountered from our house to the airport, and there was no traffic at the parking lot, and we immediately got on board … Continue reading →

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An Early Bottle of Wine

Posted on October 6, 2013 by thewineraconteur

When I first started on the road of discovery about wines, a gentleman in the trade had suggested that I try some Spanish wines as well as the French wines.  Since he was in the trade, and I was a … Continue reading →

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A Celebrity

Posted on October 4, 2013 by thewineraconteur

Sometimes a setting can be so parochial, that a celebrity is not recognized, but that type of person is not expected.  This was recently the case, and I can attest to it.  I do some consulting in the retail industry … Continue reading →

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