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What I’m Loving This Week

April 24, 2013 | By | Comments (1)

Note to self: Drink outside California more often. With Sunset headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, it’s too easy to just revel in NorCal wines. So this week, I reminded myself why that would mean missing great stuff, by tasting from the Northwest—specifically, bottles from Washington’s Yakima Valley.

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Three Fantasy Yurts for Yurtaholics

October 1, 2012 | By | Comments (3)

Are you a Yurt-aholic? If so, you probably live West of the Rockies or, possibly, in Mongolia. The symptoms of the affliction are obvious. The photo above sets you into a shivered fantasy of escape, dreaming of how to bankroll staying in that circular canvas-y utopia forever. Those not afflicted look at the above and think, “Wow, does that thing […]

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How the West sells wine

August 7, 2012 | By | Comments (2)

How does the West sell wine? Boldly. This Charles & Charles rosé from Washington practically screams “We Are Not France!”

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The electric car road trip of the future

June 5, 2012 | By | Comments (0)

My friends who take their carbon footprints so seriously that they stand on their tippy toes now have their Nissan Leafs, with their 100-miles-per-charge range (ok, 70 miles, maybe). This being the vast, expansive West—land of the long-range, top-down road trip—it won’t be long before the eco-chic dream comes true: By summer, you should be able to road trip in […]

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