Personal Wine Blog

It’s a familiar tale - maybe you’re hosting a housewarming party and your kitchen gear is not yet unpacked, or perhaps you’re at an outdoor soiree and the hostess forgot that one tiny but important detail.

Planning the perfect company Christmas party, dinner gathering, or holiday visit? No party is complete without the quintessential, bottle of red, white, or sparkling wine to celebrate the holidays.

If you live near the Hill Country in Texas, you know it’s a beautiful place. In fact, it’s a perfect location for vineyards and wineries. Taking a wine tour through the Hill Country will be a day you won’t soon forget. The beautiful scenery, the uniqueness of each winery, the special features of each, as well as the wine, make for a memorable experience. The next time you decide to plan a special outing, try some of the wineries in the Hill Country. Here are just a few to choose from:

Thanksgiving means good company, good food, and of course good wine. Bringing a bottle of a fine wine to Thanksgiving dinner is a nice gift, but wine on its own is a bit lacking. Take your wine gifting to the next level with the perfect conversation starter: customized Thanksgiving wine labels!

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Upon finally finding that special person, the wind in your sails, the peanut butter to your jelly, or also known as the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, it is time to plan out the ever important wedding proposal. Get the mini champagne bottles out, let your creative juices flow, and create a scavenger hunt to not be forgotten.

What better way to honor of the 28^th anniversary of Rob Reiner's cult-classic film The Princess Bride than with a bottle of "Inconceivable Cab" and "As You Wish Chardonnay" from Personal Wine’s "Bottle of Wits" collection?

As if the year hasn’t been crazy enough, now it's time for the company party and you have little to no time (or energy) to plan the event that all of your employees have been looking forward to. Fret not, because we want to give you five genius last-minute corporate party ideas that will help you take your company party from drab to fab in no time at all. Ready. Set. Go!

Pouring wine out or letting it go rancid is a major drinker’s faux pas. For whatever reason (we can’t think of too many) if you weren’t able to finish a bottle of wine, we have a couple creative ideas to help you reuse and reinvent your wine and its bottle. Here are our ideas of what to do with leftover wine!

Whether it’s your quarterly, biannual, or company Christmas party, plan a corporate event that will have people talking, and excited to come! Read this company party planning blog piece at Personal Wine to learn how to plan a corporate event and help you find out where to start.

A bride has many things to think about before her big day. One of the things on her list is the perfect gift for her bridesmaids. The bridesmaids do a lot for the bride before and during the wedding. They help plan, set things up, and make sure everything runs smoothly, all while wearing heels and a gown. And, just to show how much they love the bride, they’re willing to wear eccentric bridesmaid dresses. All of this deserves a fabulous bridesmaid wedding gift.