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| Metropolitan Wine Tasting Guide Map Launched - PRWeb Posted: Long Beach, CA (PRWEB) February 14, 2011 The first edition of the Metropolitan Wine Tasting (MWT) Guide Map for Los Angeles and Orange County is in print and online at http://www.metropolitanwinetasting.com. Local wine lovers and visitors from out of town can now conveniently find over 100 venues that span Malibu to San Clemente, and offer a variety of wines, cheeses and other foods, wine baskets, wine accessories, and events. "Each location has its own unique ambiance, creating fun an interesting wine tasting experiences," said Francine Marlenée, spokesperson for Metropolitan Wine Tasting. Included in the guide map is Cornell Winery and Tasting Room featuring many of the wines from the 50 wineries in the Santa Monica Mountains between Agoura Hills and Malibu. The owner, Tim Skogstrom, says he plans to open another tasting room at the old Malibu courthouse on Pacific Coast Highway in early spring 2011. It is listed on the map as The Courthouse, Malibu's Tasting Room. Other key spots in Malibu are Rosenthal - The Malibu Estate, Malibu Family Wines, Magic and Wine Tasting at the Beau Rivage, and Sip Malibu. On the cover of the guide map is the San Antonio Winery, an establishment that has been at the heart of wine making and wine culture in Los Angeles since 1917. They offer tours of their vast aging cellars filled with historic redwood tanks, modern temperature-controlled fermenting tanks, and hundreds of oak barrels. They are also home to the gourmet Maddalena restaurant. NapaStyle, a warm and friendly place at the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa offers premium Chiarello Family Vineyards wines from Napa Valley, an extensive array of wine accessories, regular events and book signings. "Laguna Canyon Winery is an exclusive boutique winery that is worth visiting. They make specially handcrafted wines from premium grapes in Napa and Sonoma Valleys," said Marlenée. "In addition, they have partnered with Wyland Galleries to create and offer Wyland Cellars wines." The printed guide map is available through participating wine tasting locations, major corporate offices, airports, hotels, real estate offices, visitor centers, or by sending a contact name and mailing address to: info(at)metropolitanwinetasting(dot)com About Metropolitan Wine Tasting # # # This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: Posted on Sun, Feb. 13, 2011 NEW YORK - Manhattan can seem exotic just as it is. But try adding a drop of the imaginary and see what you get. Maybe it's because the authors lived here, but dozens of classic books for children are set in the center of New York. In their pages, crickets hang out not in cornfields, but in Midtown. Mice don't run down country lanes - they sail boats in Central Park. With a copy of Stuart Little and a Manhattan map, you're ready for the kind of city walk where, instead of a licensed tour guide, you'll let an Eloise or Chester Cricket lead you around. If you go with the storybook flow, avenue corners will seem tinged with adventure. You'll see the sights, but through the lens of characters and tales that you sort of, kind of, almost remember. Here are some spots in Manhattan that show up in famous books for children. To supplement the information below, consider taking along the paperback Storied City: A Children's Book Walking-Tour Guide to New York City by Leonard S. Marcus. That, and some change for a Mister Softee vanilla cone. As a Manhattan kid, I used to draw on rolls of packing paper that I'd thumbtack to my wall. I drew what I knew: giant stuff, like the riveted steel George Washington Bridge. My father and I would read The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde H. Swift and Lynd Ward and then head straight to the book's Hudson-spanning bridge and the lighthouse in its shadow on the Manhattan shore. You can, too. In the best-selling book, the lighthouse (officially called Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse) is extremely pleased with itself until a "great gray bridge" is built over it. In fact, the George Washington Bridge's bright lights made the little beacon obsolete when the bridge opened in 1931. But, at the book's end, the lighthouse decides it still has an important job. I'm pretty sure thyat job is letting you visit. Now on the National Register of Historic Places, the unlit landmark lives at the watery edge of Fort Washington Park. To get up close, walk west on 181st Street toward the Hudson River, take the pedestrian footbridge, and follow the path that leads into the park. Scheduled tours are led by the city's Urban Park Rangers. In E.B. White's Stuart Little, the Little family consoles itself with this line: "In New York City, anything can happen." Mrs. Little has surprised local doctors by giving birth to a mouse. And, as you probably remember, Stuart ends up sleeping in a miniature bed that the family makes out of a matchbox. What you might not recall is that, in the book, he hops on a Fifth Avenue bus at one point and, since he's about 2 inches tall, takes the helm in a toy sailboat race in Central Park. Head for the eastern edge of the park between 72d and 75th Streets to check out the park's Conservatory Water, where the race took place, and rent one of the miniature wooden yachts for yourself (a forgotten city pleasure). Just north of there, still in the park, is the Alice in Wonderland sculpture, a bronze complex of characters that includes Alice, the Mad Hatter, and others from the Lewis Carroll classic. My friends and I used to run to it on Saturdays since it's great for climbing and sliding off - hard - onto the dirt and grass. Thinking it might be too frilly, I never got around to reading Eloise as a kid. I'm sorry I didn't. Kay Thompson's romp of a book about a girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel on Central Park South is the first of her well-loved series about the stuff a formidable little kid can do to a grand old landmark full of proper people wearing furs. With her dog, Weenie, and pet turtle, Skipperdee (you've got to love it), Eloise spends her days pouring pitchers of water down the hotel's mail chute and crayoning her name on expensive wallpaper. You can take a crack at either of these activities once you get to the hotel at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. When you're done, try ordering some hot chocolate at the Palm Court restaurant, a favorite of Eloise's, or ride the hotel elevator up and down, as she did, "for no good reason." Before you move on, scan the lobby for the portrait of Eloise by the book's illustrator, Hilary Knight. The painting was taken down during recent renovations, but it's back. Two of Manhattan's most-visited landmarks have children's book angles. The piece of fruit "as large as a house" in James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl crosses the Atlantic Ocean, arrives in New York City, and, with James and his pals inside, lands on the point of the Empire State Building at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. The book's illustration of this event made me fuming mad when I was about 9. I could see Midtown buildings from my bedroom window and knew them pretty well. But the book's original drawing showed a tower that looked more like the Chrysler Building than the Empire State. You can make up your own mind about this by getting up high on the building's main observation deck on the 86th floor. If you can find a stand or store that's not part of a chain, pick up a newspaper and a pack of gum on Broadway and 42d Street in honor of George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square. Published before the days of political correctness, the book's original cover shows Selden's main character, Chester Cricket, and his friends, Tucker the Mouse and Harry the Cat, drinking what appear to be small martinis. And talk about seeing the future: Selden has Chester make his home inside a "nearly bankrupt newsstand." Last, and maybe best, is the realm of my favorite picture book, the still popular This Is New York by Miroslav Sasek. "New York is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere," Sasek writes, "and it is full of the Biggest Things. The biggest traffic jams in the world. . . . The biggest stretch of streets to be policed. . . . The biggest Sunday papers." Not all of Sasek's superlatives are still true. But most self-respecting city kids - and just about any tourist - will enjoy his Technicolor-cool illustrations. So, where can you see the Manhattan sights in This Is New York? Uptown? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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