“One Giant Leap.” Frog’s Leap Zinfandel 2015
Know what I’m not doing right now? I’m not running the Brew-2-Brew half marathon in Vero Beach, even though I really wanted to. Being on vacation with a large family […]
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Biltmore Estate Wine Company American Riesling 2016, North Carolina
Biltmore Estate Wine Company American Riesling 2016, North Carolina Biltmore Estate Wine Company American Riesling 2016, North Carolina — Read on winesipping.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/biltmore-estate-wine-company-american-riesling-2016-north-carolina/ A great review of a wine I recently […]
“Tasting with Odedi”
Yesterday, Sonja and I drove to Orlando for the day, abandoning our beachfront solitude for throngs of humanity at a commercial hell called “Disney Springs”. We ate, took a boat […]
“Relearning to Relax.” Peju Merlot 2014
Traveling with little kids is, well, pure lunacy. Airports are hectic enough without trying to wrangle tiny humans, entertain them, change their diapers, and transport their luggage, car seats, and […]
“Baby Steps.” Frank Family Blanc de Blancs 2013
In the windowsill above the sink in our kitchen, there stands a row of sentinel corks. Each of these corks is from a wine consumed on a special occasion, and […]
“The Things We Do for Love.” Robledo Merlot 2014
Most of the folks I’ve known who weren’t very good at determining which hills are worth dying on are now dead. This is, in most cases though not all, only […]
“Guts of Steele.” Shooting Star Blue Franc 2014
I probably couldn’t walk erect were it not for the efforts of Matt, my chiropractor, over the course of several years. I threw my back out attending the Doudou Festival […]
“At long last.” Napa at Last Light by James Conaway
About three years ago, beginning in January though not as any sort of resolution, I began to fuel my interest in wine by reading books about the subject. My doctoral […]
“I hope someday I have that.” Frank Family Chardonnay 2015
“What are you doing after school?” one of my friend-slash-colleagues casually inquired of me yesterday afternoon, as in the teachers’ lounge we lamented that the weather was equal to closing […]
“Cheese!” Steele Lake County Merlot 2015
You never really know if your kids are ahead of the curve or behind it. Sometimes, they seem brilliant. Others, not so much. Regular readers may recall that Titus, now […]
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