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Quick Note About Tariffs, Transparency & What’s Next @ Avid Vines
It’s been a minute—but we’re still here, still committed to delivering wine that’s...
Carefully Curated Champagne: Avid Vines Featured on Focus Atlanta
When it comes to celebrating life’s most memorable moments, champagne often takes center...
2020: A Vintage Year in Champagne: Journaling the Harvest
2020 wasn’t a total loss. In Champagne, France, it will go down in the record books as a vintage harvest! While the weather played an...
Huddle Up: Celebrate Gratitude Fabulously
Before I get out of bed every morning, I greet the day with gratitude. It’s my own ritual of meditative thought, creating mindfulness and...
A Better Way to Champagne
It’s time to take Champagne off the vaulted altar where we currently place it. Pandemics tend to profoundly change cultural and social...
Zero-proof cocktails may end Mimosas’ monopoly
Susan Puckett’s recent article for the AJC, “Raise the home bar on zero-proof cocktails”, August 19, 2020, describes a bevy of creative...
Organic Champagne Ensures You Appreciate the Present
Appreciation happens when we slow time enough to express gratitude and acknowledge others. I’m richer when I try to fill in the gaps...
Change Means Agility and Impact
These are challenging times. It is hubris to think that during a pandemic where consumer behaviors are evolving by the week, that a...
Getting the Best from Bubbles: Avoid Shock, Swoosh When Sipping
If you’re mindlessly drinking regular champagne from a flute with some mixed nuts, you’re missing an opportunity (but points for the right...
Relief for Restaurants as Tariffs Target European Wine
There are 2 important items on my desk this morning that will impact your dining and drinking activities. Along with the news, I’ll share...
A Unique Twist on Matching Food & Wine
Who says you have to choose your food first and then find the wine that compliments it? The Virtual Champagne Tasting with our Dallas...
Grape to Glass: Everything You Need to Enjoy Organic Bubbles
Did you miss our virtual tasting on April 25, 2020 or need a review of what we learned with our friends in Atlanta and around the...
André TIXIER Wins First U.S. Medals
Avid Vines is thrilled to share the exciting news that our producer, Andre TIXIER & Fils, won two prestigious medals in the 2020...
Resources for Sommeliers, Restaurants as COVID-19 Grinds On
UPDATE: Resources are being added to this list and some removed in an effort to keep the information relevant and timely. The COVID-19...