<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bc2a7f2c-b2c9-4051-918d-c4becfb3b736/DB5B5346-A230-4185-B1E3-82A921A2C34E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://travelingmamas.com/2008/07/14/how-to-attend-your-first-wine-tasting-top-10-wine-tasting-tips/" href="http://travelingmamas.com/2008/07/14/how-to-attend-your-first-wine-tasting-top-10-wine-tasting-tips/" style="font-size: 11px;">travelingmamas.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travelingmamas.com/2008/07/14/how-to-attend-your-first-wine-tasting-top-10-wine-tasting-tips/"><P><A href="http://travelingmamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/alainsylvie.jpg"><IMG width="240" height="180" alt="Napa Valley Vineyard in California (Alain_Sylvie)" src="http://travelingmamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/alainsylvie.jpg" title="Napa Valley Vineyard in California (Alaine_Sylvie)" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-326" /></A>Let’s face it, every couple can use a romantic weekend getaway once in a while. The day-to-day stresses of work and life have a way of adding up. Even in summer. That’s why <A href="http://travelingmamas.com/2008/01/12/family-air-travel-stories-you-cant-pick-your-seatmates/">MudslideDad </A>and I jumped at the chance to spend a long weekend in Napa Valley. <STRONG>Napa Valley is one of the top romantic getaway destinations for adults in the US, no question.</STRONG> But we’d never been, and we have a shocking degree of ignorance when it comes to wine as well. That’s where my father-in-law came in. He’s a true wine expert, and knows all about tertiary flavors and that sort of thing. He sent my husband his very own Top 10 list for <A href="http://travelingmamas.com/2008/05/02/top-10-fun-food-and-wine-pairings/">wine tasting.</A> We enjoyed this “how to” list for beginners wine tasting so much, that it seems selfish not to share.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travelingmamas.com/2008/07/14/how-to-attend-your-first-wine-tasting-top-10-wine-tasting-tips/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Don’t get angry when someone says “that’s a big nose” - they are referring to the aroma of the wine, not you.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travelingmamas.com/2008/07/14/how-to-attend-your-first-wine-tasting-top-10-wine-tasting-tips/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A magnum is a bottle size, not a reference to Dirty Harry’s weapon of choice.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DB5B5346-A230-4185-B1E3-82A921A2C34E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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