Tasty Side to Life Tours

Happy Thanksgiving to all our clients and friends! Thankful to be able to share our love, knowledge and passion of wine and champagne with you daily! Thankful to be able help you curate your wine cellar and buy from the most unique and best quality small producers on the planet!

Hoping to connect with you and bring you around wine regions in France, Spain, Italy and USA in 2021!

The perfect Sunday in Napa 🥰. The fires are gone and our chauffeurs are ready w/ their masks to welcome you!!

Wine LIVE class this Thrs #18! I’m back 10/8 at 5:30pm PST 🌟💖🌟💖🌟💖This wks LIVE is all about the Judgement of Paris of 1976!!

This is the iconic blind tasting with 11 famous judges that truly put American Napa wines on the map!!! 💪🏻⚡️👏🏻💫The movie “Bottle Shock” is based on this famous competition.

You should def know all about this historical event and memorize these awesome famous producers!!!! Buy one of these producers before Thrs and watch the movie if you have time!!

We’ll answer questions like which wine producers shocked the world and beat the French? What varietals were tasted?

Cool fact- In 2010 one of the few remaining Chateau Montelena 1973 Chardonnays sold for $11,325 to a UK based software engineer! He collected all 20 of the wines they won the tasting! See you Thrs 💋

Weathers a changing and we have an Indian summer 3 pack for you that arrives cellar to your door in 2-5 days🌟🌟🌟!!

This week for Tasty Wine Master Class #17 Thrs 9/3 at 5:30 PST we are drinking Napa Cab vs Bordeaux Cab 💃🏻⚡️💃🏻⚡️💃🏻. Who will win??? 💪🏻👌🏼💪🏻👌🏼We will be learning all about the the region of Bordeaux and Napa Cabs!

Bubbles has a SOLID backbone/ structure, red fruit, organge peel, light nuttiness 💖💛🌟Cqb is cigar wrappers, cedar, dried herbs, black cherry. Yumm. Full bodied firm and gently chewy.

We’ll answer questions like is it true Bordeaux is such a cool hip surfer town now? What does each varietal bring to the blend? And you’ll walk away memorizing the 5 First growths so you can impress all your Covid pod 🙂 Wine pack is $43 + $22 + 48 or $113. DM me to order 💖. Hope to hang with you LIVE manana at 5:30! Sending you all health and love from California # # #

Another wine pack!! This week for wine Thrs 8/27 at 5:30 PST we are drinking natural wines 🌟💛🌟💛and learning all about the natural wine movement Ie wines with indigenous wild yeast, minimal intervention, no added chemicals or stabilizers that are funky and SO FREAKING COOL!!!! Wine pack is $299.95 DM me to order 💖. * this pack is mostly natural wines or can be a mix.

Thursday we will open a bottle from my friend Francesco of Altura vineyards production! This is special. The sommelier of the best restaurant in the world (Noma) told me I must visit and try this wine. I did and Francesco and his family are like family to me now 🙂🙂🙂I make the trek to his home every yr!!!!

His wines grow on a the most gorgeous tiny off the beaten path small island 10 miles off the coast of Tuscany. It is only accessible by water ferry. The island is mostly mountaneous and 90% covered in vegetation. While it densly populated in the summer, fewer than 600 people live there year round. Francesco Carfagna is one of them!!! It’s impossible to find his wines bc it’s so small production but I have them for you!! So DM if you want some!

His skin fermented orange wine or Ansonico is funky, structured and minerally with a great brightness and natural edge. You must try it with fish!!!

Wine appreciation class #15. I know the world has opened back up a bit but hopefully you can join us for WINE LIVE HAPPY HOUR today! We’re here today, Thrs 8/13 at 5:30 PST. This class is on 3 awesome, rad, amazing wines- a grower champagne, a burgundy ie a too Pinot Noir and a Bordeaux - ie a top Cabernet Sauvignon blend from france 🌟🌟🌟

You guys woah this grower champagne is NEXT LEVEL! Gorgeous structure, red fruit, orange peel, light nuttiness. OUI, oui, oui!!! All the feels. $48.99. See you manana live for a lesson on these 3 💖🌟💛✨⚡️. 8/20 class is on Natural wines. 8/27 class is comparing a Napa Cab to a French Cab to see who wins. 9/3 class is tasting the US producers who beat the French in 1976 Judgement of Paris!!! If you want a 3-6 pack of the next series shipped to you so you can taste LIVE with us, let me know and DM me!!

The feeling of being in the sunshine on a Saturday in Napa surrounded by ripening grapes before harvest💖💖💖 YOU GUYS NAPA IS OPEN for outdoor tastings! This weekend Duckhorn poured 7 reds in their huge gorg garden which is surrounded by summer herbs. We then ate local oysters at delish Farmstead restaurant just a minute down the road. Our chauffeurs can’t wait to bring you to Napa wineries! Dm me to plan a trip 🌟💛💖✨

Cheers to Bastille day! You guys LIVE #13 wine appreciation class is on champagne! This wk it’s Wed 7/15 at 6pm. We’ll go through Champagne Eric Taillet!

🍾💓. I could talk for days about the complexity of bubble size, bubble shape and mouth feel, golden color and finish...about champagnes with a soul center and steps of complexity. I sell 20-30 Champagne’s Dm me to buy a pre selected 12 bottle mix Including champagnes for $44-$48/bottle. See you virtually LIVE on Wed 7/15!!!

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Food and wine pairing! Wine appreciation class #10. See you manana Thrs 6/25 at 7:30pm PST. We’ll be leading a corporate virtual wine tasting event before with 22 people where we shipped them each 3 bottles each for a class on how to find aroma, structure, color, and finish. After that, we’ll be LIVE with you! During our class we will go through pairing salt crushed fish 🐟 with grower champagne 🍾, buttery Meyer lemon ricotta ravioli 🍋with Sancerre, and Pinot Noir with peaches and honey. Wine w/food, family, friends what’s better??? 💖🌟✨💖🌟✨💖🌟✨

Wine LIVE class #9 Reading a Wine List- Education and Étiquette! This is part of a 20 part series on wine appreciation. It’s Thrs 6/18 at 6pm PST will we see you there?? Hope so! We’ll go over my top 10 tips for how to read a wine list! Corkage fees, flawed wines, etc. Where do you even start when looking at a massive wine list??? We’ll learn how to research in advance, determine your budget, look for value and if you should order by the glass or not?!? We’ll talk about how the wine from the region pairs well w/ the cuisine you’re eating and how fun it feels to eat and drink like that! If you’re at a Neapolitan pizza place try something from that region or Campania. A French steak et frites with a classic Bordeaux. Spanish paella try with a dry Rose from Rioja or even be creative and pair with a minerality chard. 💃🏻💃🏻🍷💃🏻🍷💃🏻🍷💃🏻🍷 well be drinking the coolest 2014 Cab from Eudald Massana Noya from Penedes outside Barcelona

Wine live tomorrow Tuesday 6/9 at 6pm PST 💃🏻💖💃🏻💖💃🏻💖💃🏻💖💃🏻💖💃🏻💖💃🏻This wk is all about STORING and CURATING a HOME CELLAR! Questions like what’s the best and cheapest wine fridge for an apartment? How long reallllly do I have to keep a red? Can I leave wine in the fridge for months? Your personal cellar doesn’t have to be large and you don’t have to age bottles if you don’t want to!!! Drink wines that touch you, celebrate trips you’ve taken, memories, special moments, etc and save some that will def def def get better with age 💛💛💛We’ll go through storage 101, temperature, refrigeration, humidity, labels, neck. Cant wait to see you manana! Wine Tues since we missed last wk. Maybe we’ll do something Thrs too! https://www.instagram.com/tastysidetolifetours/?hl=en

If you're into french products there is a huge 50% off Virtual Warehouse sale at https://lemarchebayarea.com/collections/gifts today and tomorrow w/ Junna Matsuda family! Wine accessories, Champagne sabers, leather aprons, cheese platters, glassware, etc and I'm live at 11:30am today on their FB page w/ Tasty Side to Life Tours going over our top finds! Live here: https://www.facebook.com/events/251948202691617/

Gifts Le Marché Bay Area is a marketplace curating ethically made products for the modern home with timeless French touches. 

I mean, Pinot Noir!! Burgundy vs California 💖💖💖 tomorrow at 6pm. Cant wait to virtually drink with you LIVE!! 5/21 Class #6. Who will win???
Wine: Fableist Pinot noir and Domaine Jean-Marc Boulay Hôtes Cotes de Beaune Burgundy
Talking: all things CA and Burgundy, France! We’ll learn about the regions, the grape Pinot Noir and talk élégance and finesse. We’ll explore pairing with food 💖💖💖Open a bottle, watch and cook, or just watch! Buy a bottle from us for $30/bottle Fabelist or $53/ bottle for the Burgundy. DM to order xo

Tasty Side To Life- Gone Virtual! - https://mailchi.mp/77e7b8bc161c/champagne-for-the-holidays-7862381

Tasty Side To Life- Gone Virtual! hereYouTube after for you to watch at your leisure!Email here to book.  Corporate class:  - Price is $50 per person for the virtual tasting - Wines budget of $25 each wine- 1-3 wines to taste - Wine Shipping - We will give a portion of the proceeds to Hamilton Families in San Francisco that helps...

Back at it 💃🏻💃🏻 at 6pm. Come hang with us LIVE!! 5/14
Wine: Barbera d’Alba from Producer De Forville
Talking: all things Piedmonte, Italy! We’ll learn about the region, the grapes Barbera and Nebbiolo. We’ll talk about pairing with food ie hen stuffed with mushrooms, beef tartare w/ truffles, pasta with truffles, etc 💖💖💖Bring a similar bottle to drink or if you’re local we can deliver all around the Bay Area!! Grab some crackers and truffled cheese and we’ll learn, drink and eat together! $28.99/bottle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YyonMdoRM&feature=youtu.be

Wine Class #4 up on Youtube in case you missed it and want a lesson on Rose- What is a Provence style Rose!

Rose- Provence style!

Tasty Wine Class # 4 is up for the next 24h until 7pm PST all about the best drink of summer, ROSE!

We go through Provence style roses and why we like them, how Rose wine is made, how to look at aroma, structure, color and judge the overall quality of a wine like Robert Parker does!! We meet Thibaut in Sydney AU and talk about his fav Roses and I give my top 3 Roses that we can ship cave to your door! Join us in Shelter in Place xo

https://www.instagram.com/tasty_side_of_life/. At the bottom when you click on our rookie pick you’ll see story or live and choose live!

Thrs wine class TONIGHT Master class #4 at 6pm PST or 9pm EST if you’re free to drink together!! This will be an easy breezy class on Rosé!! Well talk about the qualities to look for in a Rose, how to pick one, well learn to practice aeration in our mouths to bring out flavors when judging the wine and we’ll learn how to find complexity. Well go over what to pair with it- oysters, shellfish, asparagus etc. See you there!! 💖✨💖

Live here https://www.instagram.com/tastysidetolifetours/?hl=en. Just click on my profile photo in Instagram

Wine appreciation class #3. This wk is “Meet a Winegrower”. From the comfort of your own home we are going to CHAMPAGNE!!! 🍾🍾🍾This class will be live tomorrow at 12pm PST here. We’ll be drinking champagne. You’ll learn what to look for in a champagne, how to buy, about the history, the terroir in champagne and why the word “terroir” is so, so, so important, and the top 10 champagnes to buy!!! Marine is awesome and a wealth of knowledge! You guys I’m talking THE BEST land, SUPER LONG aging, and FARMING respecting nature. Oui, oui, oui! Champagne Vincey is another upcoming super star ✨✨✨17 acres, mostly in the best Grand cru villages, aged in oak and then then on lees for 5 yrs. Farm w/ biodynamic principles. $55 bottle + shipping. DM is to order. Excited to see you all tomorrow!

It will be live in our instagram. Download instagram here if you don't have it: https://www.instagram.com/tastysidetolifetours/?hl=en

Wine Appreciation class #2 is this week on how to find aromas and flavors! The class will be live on Instagram 4/16 at 6pm PST. We’ll be drinking this delicious Chablis. It is from a rockstar producer Patrick Piuze, sustainably farmed, steel tanks, barrel fermented, native yeast. Palate is lime zest, lemon oil, oyster shell, white flowers. Oui, oui, oui! $48 bottle + shipping. S’il vous plaît DM us to order. I’m excited to see you all Thursday, share a drink together while we’re sheltered at home and learn about wine and share passions. Class is free and donation if you’d like of $8 to help our small biz. Venmo Sydney krueger 1 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🍾🍾🍾

We’re going LIVE tonight 4/7 at 5pm PST 🍾💖✨We are starting a wkly series on teaching about wine. Part 1 today is about tasting techniques. How to look for color, aroma, structure and overall quality for both champagne and wine! To access click on Instagram on your phone and click on our profile photo at 5pm. This will open Instagram stories. We will be live there inside stories for 30 mins for your first lesson. See you there! Bring your fav bottle of wine or champagne to drink while watching, or watch while cooking or just watch :)) Hope you all are safe and healthy x

We hope you and your loved ones are healthy and safe! This is a difficult time for the world. We and our winery friends are sheltering in place both at home and in the caves. We’ve cancelled tours to Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and all other regions. We are temporarily shut down. We are missing you. This is the time to come together, to look for silver linings and slow down, learn new things and connect virtually 🙂 We are shipping wines/champagnes to make your home meals long, slow and peaceful. We are hosting wkly online wine and champagne courses each wk-1x a week, we’d love to see you there! Follow our stories for date/time. Thank you as always for your support over the last 10 yrs! Keep each other close during these challenging times and remember we will be back to showing you truly gorgeous views and delicious wines all over the world. We got through the Paris terror attacks of 2015 shutting us down and we’ll get through this!!! Until then stay safe and healthy xo

Happy New Yr! We are so excited to have shipped 200 bottles of incredibly unique, delish and complex grower champagne 🍾🍾🍾 to our clients this holiday season!

We hope your 2019 has been filled with happiness and marvelous adventure, surrounded by friends and family! And hope it included lots of bubbles 🙂

Wishing you a healthy, happy, calm and lovely 2020! Hope to see you on a wine tour w/ us in France, Italy, Spain or USA this yr xo

Champagne for the Holidays- Last Chance to order! - https://mailchi.mp/8d245514a275/champagne-for-the-holidays-7507245

Champagne for the Holidays- Last Chance to order! boutique champagnes  Catalogorder formeasy pre-selected holiday package Christmas Shipping Deadlines Order by this Sunday, end of day.

This view. This hotel. We can’t even. is surrounded by vines with the most spectacular view of the famous Abbaye where in 1718, 301 yrs ago Dom Perignon created champagne!!! Come drink glass after glass after glass after glass and float into your room at . Can’t wait to see you here on a tour with us!

And the harvest begins! Anyone wish they were here for Labor Day 😉?

Grape harvests began in Champagne! ;-)

This video is a perfect example of what you will see in champagne with us on a visit to a rare boutique style grower! Watch :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn4ibVBRC00&feature=youtu.be

DISCOVERY OF CHAMPAGNE F.BERGERONNEAU-MARION Between cellars and vineyards, the House F.BERGERONNEAU-MARION makes you discover its universe and its passion for Champagne Come and meet us on the weekend ...

These are 2 of our fantastic repeat clients from Panama who just spent 4 days w/ us in Champagne and Bordeaux. They soaked up the beauty, elegance and soulful wines of France! We 💓them! They tasted at 2-3 different Chateau’s a day, a total of 30 + delicious, well made, top of the top boutique wines. Truly the best of France!! They ate at delish homey French (like your grandma was cooking) type of restaurants (Le Saint Julien) and fine dined at the top Michelin Star restaurants. The train btwn Bordeaux and champagne is 3h50 and it is our FAV thing to help clients experience BOTH incredible places on a week trip!! Oui oui oui you can do this. You can take a wk off, they won’t even notice you’re gone. This is living french countryside living 💓. Come live it up ✨✨✨. •
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We tasted and toured at Champagne Dom Perignon, we sabered champagne bottles in Grand cru villages w/ new friends, we walked around “Clos” or gorgeous boutique Champagne houses, we stayed at Hostellerie de Plaisance in the holy village of Saint Emilion and had one of the best meals of their lives there. And we snuck into Biodynamic Chateau Ponet Cadet which is next level and doesn’t welcome guests, but we got them in. And we planned this all 1 wk before they came. This is France 💘

You guys, Happy Easter/Happy Pesach! It’s Spring in champagne and the pool at the newly open and absolutely stunning (must, must, must visit Hotel Royal champagne) is open just outside Épernay! It’s surrounded by vines with the most spectacular view of the abbaye where in 1718, 301 yrs ago Dom Perignon created champagne. Come drink glass after glass of his creation at . Hope you all are celebrating the holiday and drinking gorgeous grower bubbles today wherever you are 🍾💓

This is 26 delicious, glamorous, seductive cheeses. It’s lunch or pre dessert in champagne. It’s a choice of 26 cheeses, followed by pre dessert, dessert and after dessert. It’s real. Oui oui oui you can try a tiny or large sliver of every single cheese. This is French countryside living 💓. Do you and live it up ✨✨✨. •
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This is the last course of a 1 Michelin Star lunch at .briqueterie. The cheese is an add on to the insanely affordable 38€ menu for 3 courses. Trust us you need to add this on to your menu. Top choices are regional langres, chaource, herb coated goat, old and young comté. Pair it with grower bubbles. What are your favs?

Anyone dreaming that its already spring and your picnicing in champagne? Top 10 favorite lunches in champagne

1) Les Crayeres Le Parc- 2 stars and 69€ menu for 3 courses. OUi, oui, oui
2) La Briqueterie- sit outside surrounded by their Rose Garden
3) Picnic overlooking the vines in Hautvillers
4) L'assiette Champenoise-major splurge 3 stars, rich, divine and so special
5) Le Grand cerf- 1 star adore
6) Les Avises- eat like the locals do! Drink Selosse
7) Le Royal or Racine
8) Les Crayeres le Jardin- Their steak and french fries are AMAZING
9) Symbiose - most beautiful bistro in Epernay
10) Le Foch- Michelin star
11) La Cave a Champagne or Au 36 - both fab for groups!

Repost from one of our best clients Laura Romero. "Cheers to Alice Champagne Voirin-Jumel! We miss you and are enjoying the blanc de noirs in Napa. Santé! 🍾🥂😘 — with Elizabeth Elisha, Lisa Terrell Rom, Marsha Holfeltz, Yvonne Sturton and Denise Boyer in Napa, California."

Clients from London and NY soon experiencing the magic beauty of winter at Château hôtel Les Crayeres DOMAINE LES CRAYERES •
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Surrounded by 19,000 champagne producers, waking up to hand made chocolate butter for the most divine breakfast and truffles sprinkled on everythinggggg for dinner 🍾💓🍾💓🍾. Yes, please am I right?! @ DOMAINE LES CRAYERES

Right in Épernay and our favorite spot for authentic champenoise food! Rich sauces, local lentils, ratafia and meats. A great small producer champagne menu. The best spot for groups. ✨🍾✨

[𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓿𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓲𝓽𝓮...] 💁‍♀️
.. à découvrir le Restaurant La Cave à Champagne (au 16 rue Gambetta, Epernay).

Bernard Ocio et son fils Alexandre auront à cœur de vous faire découvrir leur cuisine de terroir issue de produits frais et issu d'un circuit court.

Le restaurant, qui fête déjà 26 ans d'existence, va en profiter cette année pour rénover ses 2 grandes salles (pour les groupes).
Et pouvoir faire profiter de ces saveurs à 110 couverts chaque jours dans un décor de bistrot parisien.

Ouvert tous les jours - midi & soir (sauf le mardi)

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