You may recall, loyal reader, that one of the things on my list of forty things to do before I turn forty was to try caviar. It seems simple, yet […]

We were just wrapping up the final day of our coursework at Harvard, an intensely efficacious yet refreshingly edifying and accessible experience from which every person to whom I spoke […]

I read Green Eggs & Ham to my son as often as I read anything, and yet when it comes to wine pairing I remain pretty rigid. I know we […]

I gave a talk a couple of weeks ago in London to a group of about thirty-five young people, and therein I told them that if I could give them […]

A few years ago, we quit our country club membership because, well, it was expensive, we don’t golf, the pool was only open two and a half months out of […]

Yesterday, Warren Winiarski, the college professor-turned-vintner who crafted the 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon which bested the French 1er Cru giants at the Judgement of Paris, donated $3.3 […]

My friend Sky, a pilot with a fitting name, has often remarked of skydiving: “I don’t see why anybody would jump out of a perfectly good airplane.” It’s a humorous […]

I remember the first time I visited the Volker Eisele Family Estate; it was a surreal experience, and one that changed my perception of the Napa Valley forever. Somewhere between […]

I still hold vivid, cherished memories of the view from the top of Spring Mountain, where Smith-Madrone winery was established in 1971 by the brothers Smith. My visit there is […]

I was sitting in my home office yesterday, eyeballing my lengthy to do list, when a friend texted to arrange for us to have dinner. I grabbed my diary and […]