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.
Vino Da Tavola (VdT, in the wine books) is the lowest class of wine, a wine made by the producer as he sees fit to make it. There are few rules, other than that the stuff not be poisonous. Most is insipid, thin, weak, and acidic, the sort of wine that used to be sold in jugs and is now sold in tetrapacks.