Coastal Consulting

Blounts Creek, North Carolina
May 10 - 11, 2015

We're working on finalizing a couple more videos from Spain.  The videos are from a bodega in the town of Briones in the Rioja region.  The stories from the owner are great, and we've got them on the selecting table to pick out the best for you.

Antico 

Villa del Cigliano

This weekend we went to the coast to visit family.  Our brother-in-law has been running his own company successfully for years now, and has been giving us guidance on what we're trying to create.

We previewed for them the videos that we're releasing this week on Facebook, our web page, and on the blog.  We're glad to say that they were happy with the results and we're just tweaking a few things to bring it in line with our own expectations.

Afterwards they cooked a wonderful meal of Giada's Lemony Shrimp Risotto (Recipe here) and we paired it with two Italian wines.  Russ Anderson helped us pick them out at his store Caviste in Winston-Salem.
(The Caviste in Winston-Salem)

We started with a white Italian white, Antico, from the Apuglia Region in Southern Italy - right at the heel of the boot. Cathy and I had traveled there September in 2014. We have never seen so many Olive Trees in our lives!

Villa del Cigliano in September 2010

We followed that with a light red Chianti wine from San Casciano that was a 2003 Reserve. The wine we had purchased about 10 years ago when we went to Italy with our extended family and stayed in San Casciano at Tuscan Charm (Tuscan Charm). While we were there, we toured Villa del Cigliano and their manicured grounds.  Even though the label is in two tones, my mind can still see the colors of the plants, and flowers in the garden when looking at the label. Check them out here - Villa del Cigliano 

Time flies, and we couldn't believe how a decade had gone by so fast. Almost as fast as the bottle.  It was probably past its' prime, but who are we to throw stones in a glass house?