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.
Mirin is a type of rice wine. It is sweeter than regular rice wine (sake), so if you're going to make a substitution, I would recommend adding a little sugar to compensate for the rice wine's lack of sweetness. Any Asian supermarket or market will sell Mirin (or you can probably buy it through the Internet).