Piper Heidsieck Champagne Tobacco

Looks like Hookah just got a little more exciting for me...

Champagne Skin Care

you can always count on YouTube...this is hilarious, informative and interesting...I think I'm going to fill up the bath tub with KRUG..haha

Another FINE experiment...

Sparkling Mulled Wine?

Left to Right: Cava, Mix of Cava and cooled Mulled Wine, and lastly plain cooled Mulled Wine

After a day of work aka holiday retail insanity places like Wine Merchant  http://www.fpwm.com/index.html & Il Cane Rosso http://canerossosf.com/ are life savers for us Ferry Building survivors. The most recent evening we snagged a bottle of Cava (Spanish bubbly) as Wine Merchant was having 'last call' and we brought it over to Il Cane Rosso. I usually am happy to stick like glue to my bubbles but Il Cane lured me in with their Mulled Wine, next thing I know I have a glass of bubbles and a mug of Mulled Wine staring at me. For those of you who know me you know naturally what comes next - I LOVE to mix everything and recreate new things. So yes, Sparking Mulled Wine! The outcome wasn't what I hoped for (but that's not the point, the point is try everything, you never know what will turn out amazing.) & I did however figure out how it would work out for next time, the Mulled Wine needs to be reduced to a Mulled Wine syrup and then cooled and added to your bubbly. Just the cooled Mulled Wine itself is not flavorful enough to make the correlation optimum. So there you have it, my excitement for one evening...or at least the part I'll write about. : ) 

Kali Orexi, SFine

Local meets Local: Piecemaker Jewelry meets Schramsberg Sparkling Wine

The Atomic Fireball

Just look at it...so innocent at only 2 cm in diameter...don't judge a book by it's cover.

So i must note: My recent rediscovered of The Atomic Fireball was actually due to a joke of getting a chili pinata for my birthday (for a drunken game of "spin the friend." If i would have known what was to come of it...This little spicy candy is going to be the death of me be it by ulcer or pure addiction.

You may be wondering why on earth would anyone write about an Atomic Fireball? Well nice to meet you - My name is Sarah and yes i have a serious addiction to both Effervescence (Sparkling Wines) and Capsaicin (SPICY everything.) As for the reasoning of these obsessions. We'll deal with the Sparkling Wine in another post...For the spicy - It must have been somewhere between my moms cooking with chilies and dad feeding me Hot Tamales when stuck at his office where my my tastes developed a love for capsaicin.

Curiosity about dissecting the little thing now has become interesting enough (to me) to write about it; and my findings have been interesting actually. I found a "virtual tour" of how they are made which confirms my need to *but wont* accept the fact that i personally cannot recreate them to their exact perfection myself. *I want to make them myself with Jolokia pepper...it will happen* Link to "Virtual Tour" of The Atomic Fireball:

http://www.ferrarapan.com/html/fb_tour_1.html

And for you history nuts: http://www.ferrarapan.com/html/fb_history.html

Zivio! Cheers! Yamas! Salute! Chok dee!

....i have a bit of a fascination with sparkling wine advertisements old and new...here are just a few i have found recently.
Zivio!

Chamagne on the rocks? Moët Ice Imperial Champagne Revealed...

I just heard about this new Champagne made for drinking over ice...so i had to give a quick post to showcase it...Only Moët& Chandon would ; ) Check out the link below...I am currently looking where to find it in San Francisco...

http://blog.purentonline.com/index.php/2010/06/27/the-moet-ice-imperial-champagne-bottle/