Epinions Recent Reviews for ChristineDale

Platinum Quality- Shaken or Stirred

Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:49:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - Lately I’ve been realizing how extraordinary it is to have good friends who know you and love you. At my big birthday bash this past summer I was given a bottle of Grey Goose, but waited to open it until I could share it with other vodka lovers...

Rabbit Hill: Frolic Like a Bunny

Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:51:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - For my Fiftieth Review (yikes!), I thought I’d write about a place that’s near and dear to my heart. Of course, I considered NOT writing this so that it remains a quasi-secret and I can still book anytime I want, but since my readers generally number...

Vodka with Mandrin Subtitles

Mon, 20 Aug 2001 02:11:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - There was a point at which my liquor reviews were all leaning toward orange-infused spirits. I was accused by NFP of having an orange fetish (grin). Though I staunchly deny any such prejudice, I feel compelled to inform the world about the...

Carolina Inn: Something Could be Finer in Carolina

Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:51:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - Amazing as it was that we got off the ground after a horrendous experience with our airline (that's another opinion waiting to happen), my sister and I were delighted to set foot at the Carolina Inn, where she was taking part in a Summer...

2000 Zagat New York City Restaurant Survey: Never Fear - Zagat's Here!

Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:54:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - From Penn Station take the uptown subway, switch trains, get off at 77th street for the MMA as we lovingly refer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Plan on taking in hours of breathtaking sculpture, paintings and special exhibits. Eat mouthwatering...

Saxons, and Christians and Picts...oh my!

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:18:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - “Long Ago, Honor Was Worth Dying For…”

So begins the Arthurian legend which had me cooped up in the nearly airless room on my second floor all week, playing and cussing at the computer as my hubby and I encountered friend and foe in a...

Jewel of the Thames

Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:54:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - A couple of years ago I was invited to my friend Bernie’s house for a birthday party/get together for another mutual friend. I arrived with a large group to find the guest of honor already in the apartment with one other guy and our host, each sipping...

Strawberry Fields Forever

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:12:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - Summer approaches, and as I tramp through my garden with a sprayer hoping to deter the ravenous aphids which regard my newly planted rosebushes as a picnic essential, I am forced to pause and notice the large flat strawberry leaves pushing their way...

Rock Me, Amadeus!

Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:17:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - Vegas has its Elvis impersonators, Kentucky has Daniel Boone, and Salzburg – ah quaint fortressed town – has Mozart.

Everywhere you turn in Salzburg, Austria, Mozart has been capitalized upon. You can visit his birthplace, of course, but...

Hammered Monks?

Wed, 23 May 2001 01:33:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - I was not of drinking age (read: young and stupid) when I first started dating the guy who would be my great heartbreak story. It’s amazing how simple things like liqueurs can stick in your mind in connection with men. This was the same guy who...

Bailey's Pleasure Dome

Thu, 17 May 2001 14:49:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - How could I leave epinions with my ideas on McCormack’s and not try to do Bailey’s justice as well?

If you don’t know about Bailey’s Irish Cream, then perhaps you’ve either been living under a rock or you are one of those...

A "Holy" Spirit

Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:07:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - I was best friends in college with a suave, sophisticated English major two years my senior – you know the type: blonde, athletic, with that simple air of confidence that makes the girls drool as he passes by. He was dating this very pretty but much...

Isn't that the Dwarf's name?

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:49:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - No, no. You're thinking of that mischievous miscreant, Rumpelstiltsken who made that poor girl spin straw into gold. Rumple Minze is a strong peppermint schnapps, distilled in Germany in the Bingen/Rhine region and shipped to America for our...

Irish Spirit of Competition

Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:47:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - The long time adage "You get what you pay for" is running through my mind, followed somehow by the high-pitched rolling laugh of an imaginary leprechaun (no, I am not drinking while I write this!).

Years ago when I was young and...

I'm a Cosmo Girl!

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:03:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - My latest craze has been the Cosmopolitan, which a bartender recently described to me as the “martini of the Nineties”, but whether this is just a drink fad or it lives on, I will surely keep it as part of my repertoire, and I have Grand Marnier...

Peel me an Orange

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:52:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - It's easy to be intimidated by the beautiful and expensive bottles of liquor which hover above the cheap, brightly-labeled Hiram Walker cordials in any good liquor store. I have to admit, for me, Cointreau was no exception. I mean, if you can...

Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 03:31:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - My husband had been a very close friend of mine for years before we started dating. So when I mentioned his name to other friends as in, I'm dating this guy Mike, many of them would chip in "He's the one who does Flaming Eagles!" I was surprised to...

Looking for a "cheap" thrill?

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 02:19:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - When I was I child my father used to force us to endure Family Game Night every Monday. Not a very gracious winner himself, he would clear off the dining room table and pull out some game which the six of us could play, considering we kids varied by six...

Liquid Love

Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:16:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - Every year the guys would hold their annual Christmas party in the upstairs apartment of the house they shared with an elderly couple who travelled so much we wondered if they truly existed. In the trendy seventies kitchen - complete with goldenrod...

Swede Surrender

Sun, 7 Jan 2001 05:04:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - I have hesitated to write a Vodka review because I know all vodkas are not created equal... and I am sure that out there is some afficionado with an astute sense of perfect bouquet and taste who can afford all those gorgeous bottles of Chopin and more...

What a Peach!

Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:59:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - First of all, I'd like to say that if my bottle of Peachtree schnapps looked like the photo they show on this epinions page, I might have been more happy about having it as part of my bar. My bottle is dark brown glass, with a needs-to-be-updated beige...

What goes better with Fresca?

Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:28:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - We were sitting on the open porch of the family log cabin in upstate New York, a teacher, a veterinarian, a banker, couple of professors, a nurse and a social worker, tilting back a bottle of SoCo and letting the sweet amber liquid dull our minds...

How to give your Coke a smile

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 01:17:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - So here's the "war story". When I was young and stupid (when was that?) I let my friend Dave make me "just one drink" before leaving his New Year's Eve party. An hour later I was sitting in the middle of his living room floor...

Psychadelic in every way

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 00:48:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - I admit, the nuclear green color of this particular elixir first took my fancy when I was throwing a thirtieth birthday party for my husband Mike, who was born in '69. I was looking for psychadelic accoutrements for the 60s theme party I was secretly...

228 recipes and counting

Thu, 21 Dec 2000 03:32:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChristineDale - If you are at all like me, you have spent many awkward social situations hemming and hawing about what after dinner drink is hip and acceptable, and is served at more places than your local chain restaurant. Always trying to show off a metropolitan...