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January 22, 2013 – Oenophiles, gourmands and enthusiasts of the good life will once again reconvene on the beautiful western shores of Maui in celebration of the 32nd Annual Kapalua Wine & Food Festival, presented by Visa.

You can YouTube, Tweet and Facebook 24/7. Pausing to schedule cooking classes seems so 1990s. Why cater to a dozen guests when you touch thousands with a Tweet?

You won’t find a bottle of Jim Nantz Chardonnay on the wine list at your favorite restaurant or a bottle of Peter Deutsch Cabernet Sauvignon at your number one wine shop. You might have, but instead look for their Chard and their Cab under the name of their new joint-venture, Sonoma-based wine brand – The Calling.

I’ve always felt the best wine writers are not those who give ratings or who get hung up in the pedigrees of classic vintages or who clog your brain with details as though they were studying for their sommelier exams.  The best wine writers are those who tell interesting stories, give great word pictures of places and people you may not have seen and who explain with some imagination how t

The region of Piedmont, a majestic and diverse landscape located at the foot of the Italian Alps, has been producing world-renowned wines for centuries. 45,000 hectares of vineyards reach across a serene countryside, immersed in history and tradition: a truly unique terroir, reflected in the prominent and refined flavors of its wines.

Orange County is pleased to present the 2012 Golden Foodie Awards. The inaugural red carpet culinary awards show will celebrate the best in local food, restaurants and chefs.

When Mike Wallace died this spring, he was the last of a trio of media amigos who for decades dined regularly at the Le Grenier restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard, where Wallace and humorist Art Buchwald had summer residences and novelist William Styron and his family lived most of the year.  Styron died in 2006, and Buchwald a year later.

What do you do if your father is the man who made Blue Nun the biggest wine celebrity in the U.S.?  If you’re Bettina Sichel, you follow in his footsteps and become a wine marketing expert.

I was always taught that a happy staff is a hard working staff. At Trio, not a night goes by without at least one of our guests telling us about how great our staff is and how they notice that everyone works together with smiles on their faces.

On one recent evening, a guest remarked “Just watch the guys in the white shirts! They are truly amazing.” Well yes, they are.

There will always be those naysayers who list a hundred and one reasons why you should avoid opening a business when times are tough.