Guest Post: Ali from His Birdie’s Nest

by Mandy Weger on September 16, 2011

Today, I’m excited to introduce Ali from His Birdie’s Nest! One of the things I love about her blog is that she does a post every Friday listing 5 reasons why she loves her husband. It’s so sweet and so fun to read! Today, she has a post to share about something else she does on Fridays–crack open a bottle of wine!

Every Friday at my house we have what we like to call “Wine Fridays”. Hubs and I get a bottle of wine, sit on the couch, listen to music, and talk about our week etc. Sometimes it’s just a bottle of Two Buck Chuck and sometimes, it’s something a little nicer.

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Recently my go to wines have been from Cupcake Vineyards. I discovered them at a little liquor store near my house, on our way to a friend’s place for Memorial Day. At first I was embarrassed to buy a bottle of wine with a cupcake on it, thinking surely it was marketed toward women and a crappy bottle of wine. It may be marketed toward women, but it is a great bottle of wine and now one of my favorites! Their red wine, named Red Velvet, is also delicious!

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Which got me thinking about what other wine lovers’ go to wines were? I went to Twitter and here’s what I found out…
NoviceChef petitechablis Fixed
three MrsSnoCone
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Wine Image Sources: Charles Shaw, Red Diamond, Valreas, Guigal, Nobilo, Red Truck, Ménage a Trois, La Crema, Bogle, Green Fin, Apothic Red, Pancake

A couple of these I’ve tried, but a lot of them I haven’t. I can’t wait to try them on our next Wine Friday! What is YOUR go to wine?

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  • http://twitter.com/loverenovations Amanda

    I love this post – now I have a ton of new wines I want to try out! I LOVE La Crema, and I actually first got hooked on it when I was up in Philly for Mike and Mandy’s wedding! :)

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    Ali @ His Birdie's Nest Reply:
    September 16th, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    Thank you, Amanda :) I’m craving La Crema now too. I might have to get some for this weekend.

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  • http://hemborgwife.wordpress.com/ Hemborgwife

    Ok I am a dork but the picture of Green Fin at Trader Joes almost made me cry!! I miss Trader Joes so much I wish someone could put it in a box and ship it to me!!

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    Ali @ His Birdie's Nest Reply:
    September 16th, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    Send me your address, I will totally send you a TJ’s care package!

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    Hemborgwife Reply:
    September 16th, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    I will send awesome Swedish chocolate and candy in return!!

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  • http://www.fearlesslyfree.com Jessica

    oh man, 2 buck chuck brings back some memories.  and the story behind it makes me laugh.  good times!

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  • Brandi

    I love Cupcake’s Sauvignon Blanc! Provenance up in Napa has a good one too

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  • http://thehandcraftedlife.blogspot.com/ Morgan

    Mmmm, wine! I tend to go through phases with the wine I like, but my current favorite cheap wine is Sutter Home’s Moscato.

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  • http://www.greeningyoureats.com Amber

    I’ve never tried Bogle’s Chardonnay, but their Old Vine Zinfandel is pretty good for a $10 bottle. My go-to used to be Columbia Crest’s Cabernet, but now that we have gone crazy and joined a bajillion wine clubs, the “go-to” is whichever is at the top of the wine fridge :)

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  • http://journeytoamarathon.wordpress.com Jennifer

     My absolute favorite wine in the world is Castello del Poggio Moscato, which I discovered at Olive Garden of all places. I’m not huge on red wine, but I found Beso de Vino to be tolerable and not too strong when I tried it a few weeks ago.

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  • http://twitter.com/SheLikesRuffles Katie C

    What a fun post!!! I don’t know if I have a “go-to” wine per se…because it is always changing when we discover new wines at Total Wine! If I had to tell you right now, La Playa Sauvignon Blanc from Chile (2010) is one I’m totally into at the moment; it’s crisp and bright, a really nice white…and at $7.99 a bottle it is so easy on the pocketbook!

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  • http://fromscratchblog.wordpress.com Abby

    Ooh, I could go for a big glass of ANY of these right now!  :)   Yum!

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