*This is our guide on how to choose wine for your wedding day! Our sommelier, Leslee, gives her tried-and-true tips for picking wine for your perfect celebration. Plus, our PR maven, Addy, shares her testimonial of working with Leslee for her own wedding last fall. Enjoy!*
Hello Wedding Lovers,
It's Leslee here! I'm hoping to help put the ease in planning for your big day's festivities - party planning festivities, that is.
I have helped brides-to-be for over 20 years with their wedding wine lists. The first question I get is: Do I have to select the wines our wedding venue is forcing us into from their own list? My reply is: definitely not!
Before you make any decisions, check with your venue on a corkage fee.
I'm going to give you some math on this in just a minute, but first, hear me out...
At Sip Better, you always win with amazing wines that not only taste great and are healthy for you + your guests, but live at a price point that everyone can afford—yes, even...
Photo: Joseph Gonzalez
Why do the first signs of Spring conjure up visions of brunch? For us, it's the perky green veggies that are finally poking out of the ground, and that special morning light that begs to be celebrated with a long, meandering feast with friends and loved ones, at a table set with savory breakfast favorites and maybe a few sweet treats. And wine!
If you've got brunch on the mind, too, here are a few Sip Better wines we love drinking with classic brunchy foods, plus, a no-fail recipe for the most impressive Dutch Baby pancake. Clink, Clink!
SAVORY BRUNCH FOODS
We're talkin' steak and eggs, chilaquiles, veggie-filled frittatas, and anything with mushrooms, meat, peppers, onions or tomatoes! For those super savory breakfast foods, serve a light-bodied red like Bodegas Itxas Harri Beltza from Spain or Elena Walch Schiava.
PASTRIES + SWEETS
From waffles to cinnamon rolls to dutch baby pancakes (recipe below), you'll want something sparkling and slightly sweet. Try the pretty pink Patrick...
Dear Friends + Supporters of Sip Better,
Happy International Women's Day!
Raised as an only child by a strong, independent, hardworking female entrepreneur, I can't tell you how much I value the support of my strong female community today. I am constantly in awe of the women in my life who work full-time jobs, raise strong, intelligent + independent children, nurture a household of many and seem to flawlessly manage their friendships and more while doing it. To my lady friends who have charged forward with their careers—I am astonished by your power, magnetism, brilliance + strength. You ALL inspire me to no end.
With each year, I listen + lean harder into the relationships of my lady friends, colleagues and supporters as you all continue to teach me the lessons of patience and resilience. My strength now as a 20 year business owner—and just a month short of my 50th birthday—seems to be unstoppable. Still wide-eyed and open to the possibilities of business + life, I am a bit...
Photo: Left to right: Leslee, Addy, Emily
In honor of Women's History Month, we're highlighting the creative team at Sip Better, composed entirely of WOMEN.
First, a note from Leslee:
Meet the ladies of The Sip Better Wine Club's 'force'.
When I think of the energy and the force it takes to run a small business, well...I'm already exhausted. But they say: if you surround yourself with positive, supportive + smart people, anything is possible. In reality, it makes EVERTHING possible.
Enter Emily + Addy. Emily has literally been with my businesses, Amusée + Sip Better, for a decade (omg, that's half of Amusée's existence!!) and Addy—who's been with us for over a year + a half—in reality, it feels like we've known her forever.
Without this amazing dynamic duo full of creativity, energizing enthusiasm, jam-packed hilarity and brilliance, Sip Better would just not be the team we are today.
I raise my glass to these two beauties who keep me centered, focused, creative + best of all, keep me current. They remind me that I'm...
Are you excited about wine but also...confused by it? Makes sense! There are many myths about wine floating around and a genuine dearth of accessible information on whether they are true or not. Often, the answers are complicated. Allow us to shed a bit of light on four of the biggest wine myths out there.
MYTH: SUGAR IN WINE IS BAD
Sugar: is it bad, is it good, is it totally misunderstood? YES. The truth about sugar is that it is a crucial component in the winemaking process. Natural sugar, that is. When yeasts munch on naturally occurring sugars (found in wine grapes and all other fruits), they produce alcohol and myriad complex flavors that wine drinkers love.
But things get sticky (ha!) when wine producers ADD cane sugars and concentrates to that naturally sweet grape juice. Many big producers—such as brands that rhyme with 'shapothic' and even a certain celebrity’s ‘clean’ wine brand— can add cane sugar and other junk to wine to create a richer, more voluptuous mouthfeel that...
