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A lifestyle blog by Allison Arbuthnot on The Whole 9

Allison was raised on the vine in Sonoma, California, and believes that life is too short to drink bad wine, count calories, or second-guess your destiny. She now lives in Los Angeles where she practices many things, the two most important being contentment and tricks for opening a wine bottle without a wine key.

Monthly Archives: December 2009

Ho Ho Ho and A Bottle of Wine

Oh, the holidays.
Christmas this year is feeling the pinch everywhere. My family celebrated early with gifts of mittens, costume jewelry, framed photos. From me, loved ones received a jar of homemade seasoned salt and some olive oil infusions. We traded our mock-Christmas Eve prime rib for pizza. It was lovely [...]

Drinking Divas

A few weeks ago, on November 11, The Whole 9 hosted a wine tasting in their fabulous and multidimensional art gallery in Culver City. The theme of the tasting was ‘Divas that Drink,’ and the powers that be (those powers being Lisa and Heidi, of course) invited me to help select a few tasty [...]