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		<title>Why I love the little guy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.bonne-vivante.com/blog/2010/03/28/why-i-love-the-little-guy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Okay, so Total Wine and Spirits opened in Vegas recently and they&#8217;re doing weekend tastings.  After being repeatedly asked by just about everyone we know if we&#8217;d been over to Total yet, we finally decided that today was the day we&#8217;d check it out.
And the verdict is meh.
It&#8217;s not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with it, per se.  The tastings were fine &#8211; much more geared to the mass market than a lot of the tastings that we go to, but that&#8217;s to be expected.
The sweet tea &#8220;wine&#8221; thing was&#8230; interesting.  And certainly nothing like my regular places would pour (or stock)&#8230;
The racks and racks and aisles of wine were awesome.  Rhone? Yup.  Spain? Of course. Portugal? Yeah, even a basic selection of that, too.  That was pretty neat.
But after poking around a bit, the flaws started to show.
Aside from being grouped by country, there&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>Duboeuf Moulin-a-Vent Domaine des Rosiers 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m really enjoying this wine.  We had it it at a tasting at Valley Cheese and Wine during their anti-Nouveau party in November and we picked up a case.  This is definitely something we&#8217;re planning on holding on to and drinking through slowly.  There&#8217;s a lot of room for growth in this one.
In the glass, it&#8217;s a rich ruby red with a clear defined rim.  On the nose it&#8217;s showing its youth with lots of clear, crisp currant and cherry notes.  On the palate, you can see a lot of the earth and tobacco that it will continue to develop over time.
This is a nice, versatile wine&#8230; a lot of the suggested pairings are for game and meats, but we drank it tonight with a squid-ink pasta in a vinho verde, scallop and crab alfredo, which worked really well.
Drink this now or hold for a few years and see how ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner at Herbs and Rye</title>
		<link>http://www.bonne-vivante.com/blog/2010/01/20/dinner-at-herbs-and-rye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Met a friend for dinner last night at Herbs and Rye on Sahara.  D. and I stopped here once after their soft opening in December and liked it so much we promised ourselves we&#8217;d come back, which we did last night.  I have to say that they did a phenomenal job with this space.  Long-time Vegas residents will remember this spot as the old Venetian.  Once the Venetian closed, the space went through an unfortunate string of kitschy theme places that lasted about as long as kitschy theme places usually do.  It&#8217;s nice to see an amazing, classic place back in that space.
The weather in Vegas was awful, so we were the first people in their when we showed up at about 6:30.  We grabbed seats at one of the hightops in the bar and were quickly served some fantastic champagne cocktails and the order of calamari we wanted to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Red Rock Wines Dinner</title>
		<link>http://www.bonne-vivante.com/blog/2010/01/18/red-rock-wines-dinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Yes, I know&#8230; I owe updates.  The rest of the Portugal trip was phenomenal&#8230; except for the whole getting sick bit.  Rule number 10 of travel &#8211; if it&#8217;s a long enough trip, someone in the group will get sick.  It happened to both of us last year, and this year was my lucky year&#8230; again.  I managed to stave off the worst of it until we got home, but I felt like I&#8217;d been hit by a truck by the time we got back, and of course, there was a pile of work waiting for me on top of that.
I&#8217;ve been putting my (half-delirious) notes together and will be doing the rest of the trip this week.  Before then, though, we were fortunate enough to enjoy a winemaker dinner at Marche Bacchus tonight which featured wines distributed in the Vegas area by Red Rock ...]]></description>
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		<title>Paris to Lisbon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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After finishing up at the Pompidou, D. and I walked back towards the 10th Arrondissment and our hotel figuring we&#8217;d stop by for dinner on the way.  We walked up the Rue La Fayette towards Gare du Nord.  This is where I really differ from a lot of other people who&#8217;ve written about the 10th.  There are a few people who have mentioned that they felt uncomfortable at night or that the neighborhood didn&#8217;t seem safe.  In reality, the neighborhood is home to a lot of immigrants from France&#8217;s former African colonies, and that really seems to be shorthand for &#8220;there weren&#8217;t a lot of other white people around so it must be a really bad area&#8221;.  I didn&#8217;t feel at all unsafe, the streets were busy with people getting ready for Friday night&#8230; lots and lots of hair shops and manicurists (apparently this is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Paris recap</title>
		<link>http://www.bonne-vivante.com/blog/2009/12/28/paris-recap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bonne-vivante</dc:creator>
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The day in Paris was pretty awesome.  We were absolutely exhausted.  The flight from ATL to CDG was a bit rough and the Air France crew kept making announcements about wearing seatbelts and doing seatbelt checks so it was utterly and completely impossible to get any sleep.  In fact, I&#8217;d fallen asleep but got woken up and rather startled by one of the cabin crew lifting up my blanket to check if I was seat-belted.  Honestly, the turbulence wasn&#8217;t that bad at all, even though we got one announcement about holding children so they didn&#8217;t bounce around.
We got out of the airport in pretty decent time.  It really helped that they checked the bags through to LIS from Vegas, so we didn&#8217;t have to claim anything.  We sailed through customs and had a very short wait at passport control.  The airport itself was pretty well-signed so finding the train station ...]]></description>
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		<title>Europe Schedule&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.bonne-vivante.com/blog/2009/12/24/europe-schedule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s where we&#8217;ll be:
12-25 &#8211; en route: LAS &#8211; ATL &#8211; CDG
12/26 &#8211; 12/27:  23 hours in Paris
12/27-12/29: Lisbon
12/29-1/1: Sintra
1/1-1/3: Back to Lisbon
1/3-1/5: Porto
1/5-1/7: Lisbon, again
12/7: Back home, LIS &#8211; CDG &#8211; JFK &#8211; LAS

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		<title>Mostly packed</title>
		<link>http://www.bonne-vivante.com/blog/2009/12/24/mostly-packed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Yay for mostly packed.
Hair is dying now.
Sipping on that vinho verde while we finish up getting things set.  First leg, LAS &#8211; ATL starts at 10:15 tomorrow morning.

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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<link>http://www.bonne-vivante.com/blog/2009/12/24/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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I so should be packing right now&#8230; Instead I&#8217;m putting the finishing touches on the blog, tweeting and waiting impatiently for the vinho verde to finish chilling.
To do:

pack
dye hair
eat dinner
pack more
probably do laundry&#8230; it&#8217;s been an insane week.


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