Mother’s Day coming up and we’d like to salute our MOMS.  If it wasn’t for their love and support we wouldn’t be here today.

Happy Mother’s Day JoAnn (Keryl’s mom) & Pat (Debbie’s mom)!

We love you! Thanks for being such great moms!

Happy Mother’s Day to ALL the MOMS out there!

Don’t forget to pick up a bottle of Happy Bitch Wine for your mom this Mother’s Day.  For a listing of stores in your state click here.

Join Keryl and Debbie as they share their story of divorce and job loss and coming together to create Happy Bitch Wines

It’s about time the weather got warmer and it looks and feels more like Spring!

In celebration of a beautiful weekend, start with a Happy Bitch Wine Spring Sensation.  Recipe is compliments of River Grill on the Newburgh Waterfront.

Fill wine glass with ice. Pour in 1oz of citrus vodka (can use melon, strawberry or berry vodka too) Fill glass with Happy Bitch Rose  and top with a little seltzer and add a wedge of lemon and lime.

Enjoy the weekend!

What a fantastic welcome we had last weekend at the Boston Wine Expo. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to taste our Rose. Most of all thank you for all your encouraging words! We had a blast and will be back soon!

We want to congratulate Andrea Macedo. She is the grand prize winner of the pair of She-Balls!  Congrats Andrea!

Don’t forget to ask for our wine in your wine store.

Next stop ~ New York Wine Expo March 1, 2013

Hello Boston!  We are coming your way…the wait is over to try our Rose wine. We will be at the Boston Wine Expo, February 16 – 17, 2013.    We are looking forward to introducing you to our wine and story.  To get you started, back in May, Keryl appeared on Fox 25/MyFoxBoston and told our story about the book, the tweet and the wine. Now you will be able to wrap your hands around the glass and taste our wine.  Just visit us in booth 284 for some wine and other exciting things!

Our next stop after the Boston Wine Expo is the New York Wine Expo March 1-3, 2013.  If you stopped by and saw us last year, this year will be just as much fun!  Look for us here at table 532.

Now for the fun part!  When you visit us at either show you will have a chance to enter to win a pair of SHE-BALLS.  Yes SHE-BALLS!!!  She-Balls are for women to celebrate optimism while pursuing their goals, make their greatest trials a test of endurance and proudly claim the right to be Unbreakable, Beautiful, Courageous and Ready for MORE.  Every Happy Bitch needs a set of She-Balls!

Make sure you stop by our booth at the Boston and New York Wine Expo.  Taste our wine, chance to win a pair of She-Balls.  We’ll even have some tattoos and $10 gift cards to Jewel Mint to share with you.

Our very own Debbie Gioquindo aka Hudson Valley Wine Goddess is giving away 2 pairs of tickets to the New York Wine Expo’s Grand Tasting, Friday, March 1.  There will be a random drawing February 13. Read her blog post to see how you can enter to win.  If you don’t win the tickets use special discount code HudValley  to save $15 off admission.

Tis the season for tastings! Keryl and Debbie will be out and about during the next few weeks.  Now is your chance to stop by, taste some Happy Bitch Wines Rose and meet Debbie & Keryl.

To date here is the schedule:

• Friday, November 30, 2012 Debbie will be at Price Right Wine & Liquor, Rt. 55/82 LaGrangeville, NY  4p-7p
• Friday, December 7, 2012 Keryl will be at Blue 57 Wines & Liquor, 57 North Front St. Kingston, NY 5p -8p
• Saturday, December 8, 2012 Debbie will be at JK’s Wine & Liquor 276 Plaza Rd. Kingston, NY 1p-3p
• Friday, December 14, 2012 Debbie will be at Arlington Wine & Liquor Rt. 44 Poughkeepsie, NY 2p-6p

This is a time of year to be thankful for what we have and I am most thankful for answering Keryl’s tweet that April day in 2011, as I am doing what I love!

Both Keryl and I had grandmothers in our lives that played a very special roll.  My grandmother was not a very religious person, but every year at Thanksgiving she would insist on reading a Thanksgiving prayer from her father.  At the table she would pull out this old piece of paper and share the prayer.  Today in honor of my grandmother, I share with you, her Thanksgiving prayer. If she was here today, she would be one proud Happy Bitch!

We thank thee Oh Lord for all the blessings thou has bestowed upon us during the past year.  We thank thee for the harvest and for the fruit of the vine that has come to us through thy will.  We thank thee that we have arrived at this hour in health and with our share of happiness.  Bless this house, our children and grandchildren with health, happiness and prosperity through the coming year and the years to come.  Bring peace to this troubled world and bring light and wisdom to those who travel in darkness and know not their blessings.  May the Lord let the light and his countenance shine upon thee and grant thee peace.  AMEN.

From our house to yours…with the friends and family we share this holiday with….Have a HAPPY BITCH Thanksgiving!

~Debbie

We’ve been back for a week and have recuperated from our time in Arizona.  We had a blast in the Phoenix area and met some really nice people.  Here is a little montage of our week.

We want to especially thank Rob who was stuck next to us during our would be 3 hour flight from Dallas to NY that ended up being 6 hours.  Yes, the plane ran out of gas circling LaGuardia and we were sent to Philly to refuel.  However there was as the pilot said a “hiccup”…Philly wouldn’t take us. Yes we were flying American.  So we ended up in Atlantic City for 2 hrs while the paperwork was completed and the fuel put in the tanks.  Also want to thank the wonderful fight attendants who supplied us with the wine from the First Class cabin.  You rock!  We hope you are enjoying your Happy Bitch tattoos!

We had a fabulous time in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area of Arizona.  We would like to thank everyone for their warm welcome and support!  If you have never been to the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, it’s a must!  The scenery is beautiful, weather outstanding, the people are so warm and friendly and we had 5 great hair days!

Thursday we appeared on AZTV’s Morning Scramble with Lisa Schneider-Cipriano.  We can’t say enough about the entire staff at AZTV! Warm, welcoming and wonderful!  They embraced us and our wine and as Pat McMahon said “This is a GREAT Arizona wine!”