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mimi: Puerto Rico

Favorite grape or region: ginormous zinfandels and crisp rieslings

Who Are You?: i am a toro

Hometown: the valley

Relationship Status: currently dating an anonymous wine connoisseur who has a thing for the patriots, cooking amazing meals and saying 'booya'

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Stomping Grounds

"One barrel! All I wanted was one barrel and I got a winery," laments Cheryl Phillips, wife of Randy Phillips and co-owner of the Red Soles Winery in Paso Robles.

If Paso were the Hollywood of the wine world then Cheryl and Randy would be the Angelina and the Brad. They are the cool kids; the ones who stumbled, or rather stomped upon a barrel of grapes in their search for a new hobby and ended up with one of the most successful and welcoming wineries in the area. Venturing into th…

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Posted by mimi on April 29th, 2008 at 10:58am — 3 Comments (Add)

FACE VALUE- The Complete and Utter History of the Men Who Brought Us "Wine to the Face"

by Mimi Toro

For those of us who aren’t quite clear about the origins or meaning of the prepositional phrase, “to the face,” a brief debriefing:

Dating back to the golden ages of fledging wine exploration and the founding of the secret brotherhood of the Face, this phrase was uttered as a right of passage for those who wished to cross the threshold and enter the infamous secret enclave of the Order, a site later identified by anthropologists as 1545 Larkin (recently excavated f…

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Posted by mimi on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:43am — 7 Comments (Add)

ALMVS FAMOUS

If there is one wine that i find myself subconsciously searching for upon each glance of a wine list, no matter the restaurant, it is Almvs. And yes, that is a "v." I'm particularly fond of the 2003 Cuvee Kemiji, made by Master Sommelier Emmanuel Kemiji and Sylvain Portay, award winning French chef of The Dining Room at the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco. This Bordeaux style blend elicits a Pavlovian response that only See's Candies could match. Complete sensual satisfaction, from the rich, dark in…

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Posted by mimi on April 7th, 2008 at 11:32pm — 1 Comment (Add)

hot hot reds

check it out.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/genomics-could.html

so we can't exactly stop global warming.
leave it to the wine-o's to just go with the flow.

Posted by mimi on November 22nd, 2007 at 7:49am — No Comments (Add)

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At 8:56pm on April 21st, 2008, mimi said…: hey handsome.
sounds delicious!
perhaps . . .

At 8:28pm on April 21st, 2008, Gabe Holmes said…: Hey hot stuff. Any urge to visit Portugal tomorrow:

Vini Portugal Tasting
Tuesday, April 22nd
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
The Palace Hotel
2 New Montgomery Street,
San Francisco, CA 94150

Tickets are a "suggested" $40 donation to Project OpenHand and can be purchased at the door.

At 2:54pm on April 8th, 2008, Kylie Toro said…: mimi- please tell gabe, since he is still considering our friendship on this webpage (though made the change to the headline- interesting priorities i might add...) that you should have a nametag application: those Hello my name is looking stickers... and you should have to fill out--- If i were a wine i would be... (of course for me, this application would mean close to nothing but for all of you fanatics it just might define your very essence of being)
one love loves. [yes all of that was intentional so be sure to enunciate]