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FRANK SINATRA’S HOUSE ON THE MARKET! COTO DE CAZA NEWS R e s t au rant
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Filled with family and close Hollywood friends, the house that Frank and Barbara Sinatra built in the early 1990s on Broad Beach in Malibu is now on the market for the first time. The home has been listed for $12.9 million. Of all the beautiful homes and retreats Sinatra owned from coast to coast, it seemed that he found his true happy place when he and Barbara visited their good friends Steve and Eydie Gorme. Enthralled with the prospect of having close friends for neighbors, the couple bought a lot and built their home in 1992. In addition to it being a restful home for Frank, who was still touring until shortly before his death at age 82, they filled the home with family and the most famous names in show business.
During the holiday season, Meritage Wine Market in Encinitas brought in the “Big Dog” wines from Napa for its regular Friday night wine soiree. 6 beauties were opened and the conversation flew about the merits of such luminaries as Cakebread, Caymus, Lewis and my favorite, Hourglass Estate 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon. ($195.) It’s a dark expression of black fruit, cassis and blackberry The wine bar presents, every Friday, tastings from 6 to 8pm as well as occasional classes and seminars with educator Michele Graber in a special cellar tasting room. Interested readers should visit meritagewinemarket.com. Wine Predictions for 2019 Wine Spectator sent us over a roundup of Sommelier comments on wine trends and wines worth watching for, and wines to forget about. They answered: more bubbles, more New Zealand, more Napa Valley and better “natural” wine. More than a few wrote that there is an over supply of Rose’. Rose’s especially from California are over-produced with just about every winery making at least one. (Sounds like what happened with Merlot!) Look for a Rose’ crash. Can’t come too soon for me. Out-of-the-way smaller locations in Italy, like Puglia in the south, are on the rise, since travel to the land of pasta, pizza and wine has increased.