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January 4, 2019
FROM OPORTO TO PAPE A WINE JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE
SEGERSTROM CENTER’S 45TH ANNUAL CANDLELIGHT CONCERT RAISES $1.5 MILLION
Good News! TASTE OF WINE & FOOD has heard from our good friends and travel writers, Scott and Nancine Hagner. Every once in a while, they’re on the open road with their motor home, as long as it winds up next to a “yummy winery.” They have discovered tucked away wineries in the Northwest, Sonoma and Mexico with an eye toward less traveled destinations. In exchange, I turned Scott on to a wine shop that he simply can’t resist here in San Diego County. So much so, he has called it “The Candy Store.”
Their latest adventure took a different turn this time. They left their motor home behind in San Diego and crossed the “big pond” to explore wine countries of Portugal and France. My traveler friends tend to think like I do. When they pack up and leave town for far away places with many types of wineries, they do as I do and go for the opposite to the norm and pick the best for first!
FORMER HOME OF SINGER PEGGY LEE FOR SALE!
Sultry jazz singer, songwriter and screen actress Peggy Lee, who popularized Lover, Fever and Is That All There Is?, who could pack concerts tighter than Frank Sinatra and whose fans included Albert Einstein and Aldous Huxley, lived until her 2002 death in this French Regency-style estate. It is currently on the market priced at $9.995 million. Built in 1969 and designed to host event-sized parties, this stunning two-story Bel Air mansion practically begs it’s owners to entertain, show off its regal interior and stroll its Old World-style terraced gardens with lush plantings, fruit trees and roses. The entry doors in the vine-covered exterior walls are replicas from a historic church in Oxford and open into a soaring foyer with circular staircase and a chandelier that Peggy Lee sourced from a Paris flea market. Measuring 6,062 square feet with five bedrooms, seven baths .
Segerstrom Andrews Kathy and John Marconi. Sally and Toby Andrews. Photo by Photo by Doug Gifford Joesan Diche
An “Enchanted Evening” was had by all who attented this year’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts 45th Annual Candlelight Concert, a holiday tradition that is anticipated each year, especially by me! It is truly one of the most glamorous Orange County Holiday celebrations and it keeps getting bigger and better, this year the folks at the Segerstrom Center knocked it out of the park - seriously! Sandy Segerstrom Daniels and Jane Fujishige Yada chaired the annual gala with a great team. They had more than 450 people attend and raised $1.5 million. The money helps Segerstrom Center to present an incomparable array of world-class entertainment, and to serve the community with education programs, free events and performances on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza and classes in its American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School and the School of Dance and Music for Children with Disabilities.
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