FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
10 sparkling wines from Lodi to toast an end to 2020 and welcome in the New Year [The Record, Stockton, Calif]
LODI – Without a minute to spare, it’s time to toast the end of 2020 and ring in the New Year with these sparkling choices from Lodi.
LVVR Sparkling Cellars
Winemaker Eric Donaldson owns the only winery in Lodi that employs the painstaking, laborious process called methode champenoise (or traditional method used to make champagne). In this process, the second fermentation takes place in the bottle, leading to elegant expressions noted for long-lasting, fine bubbles. Note: Several Lodi wineries take their still wine to outside wineries that also employ methode champenoise.
At Tehachapiâs Heritage Oak School, a private Christian school, students learn to argue.
No, they are not shouting at each other. Their arguments are more dignified, as the students learn to use critical thinking skills to communicate their positions.
Itâs a millennia-old method of education.
Based on the three-step âTriviumâ Veritas Press classical curriculum, HOS students study the academic basics (Grammar, grades K-6), logical thinking (Logic, grades 7-9) and how to effectively express their convictions orally and in writing (Rhetoric, grades 9-12).
The curriculum, Secondary Principal Lorena Semerenko told a meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi, âis Latin-based, classical, heavy on Western culture history and literature. Students begin Latin (language) training in the fourth grade.â