DISCOUNT WINE CELLARS

If your bid at a silent auction for a stay at a romantic B&B or a spa package is unsuccessful, what will you do? Valentine's Day is just hours away now and there's no excuse to forget, reminders are everywhere. Every tenuous connection will be made in just about every shop window, even stationers and plumbing supply stores. Make your man happy with a new ball cock for the toilet, that sort of thing.

Thankfully, there are much better options which you can explore this February and there's still time to take advantage. 'Chocolate and Diamonds' still has tickets available, so if you live in the Shuswap area check that one out. If you live the Seattle area, try the Valentine's Weekend Brunch ont he Royal Argosy. From 12-2 enjoy scrumptious food, champagne, live jazz, a red velvet cake and chocolates. While you're in the area, check out one of the Valentine's packages at local hotels including the Hilton, Alexis or Four Seasons (depending on your budget).
California is much bigger than Seattle or the Shuswap, being an entire state and all, so I just picked on suggestion out from among the many. Valentine's 'Passport 2010' on the River Road Wine Trail in Monterey happens Saturday the 13th from 11-4. Try wine in 12 tasting rooms including Pessagno, Hahn, and Ventana. For $25 each you will receive a special wine glass, a gift, and enter a draw to win even more. When you find those special flavors for your wine cellar, you can also keep one to open that weekend and serve in your new wine glasses.
Consider these options and more just like them for you and your partner, or as a gift to a couple you love or want to set up on a blind date. If they don't get along, there will at least be wine.

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In the movies, characters hold, pour, purchase and drink wine all the time. Bridget Jones gets totally plastered with the stuff in her apartment. Steve Martin is the sarcastic wine waiter to Miss Piggy and Kermit. Hannibal Lecter creeps everyone out with his pairing of human organs and chianti. Thanks to that one scene, I have never kept chianti in my wine cellar (even though the movie came out when I was barely old enough to drink).
Then there are the movies whose plots are wrapped-up in wine. I've talked about Sideways before, but that's only the most well-known. A Good Year, with Russel Crowe and Albert Finney, was adapted for the screen in 2006 from the writings of Peter Mayle, famous for A Year in Provence (a good book by the way). Russel Crowe's character inherits his uncle's estate and vineyard in Provence which he initially plans to sell, until he falls in love with the lifestyle and a woman. I wonder what seeing Russel Crowe in a Provence vineyard did for sales of French wine in the USA?
At Sachem Farm (1998) sees a character played by Rufus Sewell trying to sell-off his family's wine collection to purchase a mining interest, which of course leads to conflict (there wouldn't be a plot otherwise). The cast also includes Minnie Driver.
The 2008 film Bottle Shock goes all the way back to 1976 and a proposed contest between Napa Valley and French wines. Paris Sommelier Steven Spurrier (played by the wonderful Alan Rickman) meets interesting characters including Jim, a vintner going deep into debt as he tries to perfect his chardonnay. You might recognize Chris Pine (Captain James T. Kirk in the new Star Trek franchise) and Bill Pullman (You Kill Me, While You Were Sleeping).
Appealing leading men plus wine: sounds like a good gift to treat yourself with this weekend.

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