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Valentine’s Day is for spending time with loved ones. Having a delicious dinner and drinking some wine is always a great way to make it special

Have you picked up your CT Winter Wine Trail passport yet? You can pick one up at any of this year’s Winter Wine Trail 14 participating members for free! Get your passport card stamped at each winery to enter to win one of a wide variety of prizes—totaling over $5,000. The CT Winter Wine Trail passport contest runs until April 7

One of my favorite things to do on Father’s Day is to spend time with my beautiful family, maybe play a game of soccer, and of course enjoy great wines from Paradise Hills Vineyard & Winery! Days on the farm with him are special times, and they just keep getting better every day as I see him becoming his own person and his love for the Viña. I am so thankful for all our family’s blessings as we are expecting our second son at the end of August. At the time I was not impressed much about wine, because it eventually exploded in the basement, but it was the early beginnings of Hopkins Vineyard. 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Live Music in the Tasting Room at Preston Ridge Vineyard, Jun 17 @

I took off my coat and was about to settle into a seat when Margaret Ruggerio-Mena, one of the owners and winemakers of Paradise Hills Vineyard & Winery in Wallingford, saw me and came over to give me a hug. The flavor pairing again with the Paradise Hills’ 2015 Nostra Tradizione, a Chianti style blend, really brought out the taste in the food and picked up the great tones of a smoky flavor in the quesadilla. The fourth course was a Steak a la Parilla, which was a grilled NY steak, with yucca fries and an aji amarillo chimichurri that was paired with Paradise Hills’ 2015 Nero D’Avola. If you’ve ever wanted to have an intimate dinner with winemakers who will help you to understand and appreciate wine more, you need to attend a Wine and Tapas dinner with Paradise Hills.