Celebrating Samhain. Article by Selena Fox. As October turns to November, thousands of Witches, Wiccans, Druids, and other Pagans across America, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere observe the sacred time of Samhain.Samhain is a festival of the Dead. Prepare a Samhain dinner. 2  Include a place setting at your table or at a nearby altar for the Dead. 3  Add an offering of a bit of each beverage being consumed to the cup at that place setting, and to the plate, add a bit of each food served. 4  Invite your ancestors and other deceased loved ones to come and dine with you.
Colombard (also known as French Colombard in North America) is a white French wine grape variety that is the offspring of Gouais blanc and Chenin blanc. This makes the grape the sibling of the Armagnac Meslier-Saint-FranÃ§ois and the nearly extinct Cognac grape Balzac blanc.
A glass of port, a fortified wine. Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, is added. Many different styles of fortified wine have been developed, including Port, Sherry, Madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine, and the aromatized wine Vermouth.