Hello Wine Lovers, join us tonight Friday, June 19, 2009 from 5pm to 8pm for a taste of one of California’s Noble wine making families. Sebastiani and Sons Winery. And tonight is a recession buster—only six dollars for four glasses of wine. August and his wife Silvia started the family winery in the heart of [...]
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A Day At The Downtown Yacht Races–Paper Yacht Races
So there I was today at 5th and Flower, the City National Bank building, covering the second annual PSOMAS Paper Yacht Challenge to benefit the Los Angeles Food Bank. It was 5pm, and the racing crowd was assembling while a live DJ played in front of the buildings’ entrance. First I checked out the competition; [...]
Hello Wine Lovers!
Hello Wine Lovers, from 5pm to 8pm today June 16th at Ralphs, we’re once again venturing up the coast of California to Paso Robles to check out the wine growing region. Many of the Paso wineries are producing wines that are rich and deep full-bodied wines. The special climate in that region allows the wind [...]
HELLO, WINE LOVERS!
Hello, Wine Lovers! It’s 10a.m. Monday, June 15, 2009 and Mike is running late to work so he asked me to post something about tonight’s wine tasting at Ralph’s downtown (on 9th Street between Flower and Hope). To those of you who don’t know, Mike Berger hosts the tasting from 5p.m. to 8p.m. and it’s [...]
Hello Wine Lovers!
Hello wine lovers, today, Tuesday June 9th, at Ralphs Downtown we are tasting great Pinot Grigio from 5pm to 8pm in our wine café. Pinot Grigio can be grown in California as well as in Italy. Bookmark It
Hello Wine Lovers
Hello wine lovers, tonight June 8, 2009 from 5pm to 8pm at Ralphs Downtown, we will taste two of the same wines from different parts of the world, Syrah from California and France and Shiraz from Australia. The ancient city of Shiraz is said to be the birthplace of the Shiraz grape, not too far [...]
Hello Wine Lovers
Hello Wine and Sake lovers. Tonight June 5, 2009 at 5pm to 8pm I will be serving Sushi and Sake for a fun Friday night. Friday is a great night to start your evening festivities at Ralphs with a little Sushi and Sake then head out to your favorite places in town o get your [...]
Berger Continues to Amaze
May was a good month to taste wine at Ralphs downtown and here are some of the highlights: Cellar Night. When you see these two words on the wine tasting calendar at Ralphs you probably expect some high-end Gallo wines and maybe a well-chilled Reunite. I mean it’s Ralphs Market, right? If you think that, [...]
Blankenship Cuban Ballet Extravaganza
I am having a lot of firsts lately. For someone who’s done many things in one lifetime, this is amusing to say the least. For instance, I went to my first Dodgers game over Memorial Day Weekend. I also adopted my first pet from the pound, a Chihuahua, two days ago. How I managed to [...]
Sunday Night at the Cemetery
Foreword by Stan Lerner: I’ve heard people are dying to get into this place. Thanks for checking it out Sumner! It took a while to convince her that relics of the underworld would not haunt her for the next week, but my girlfriend finally agreed to accompany me to a Sunday night movie showing at [...]









