“Wine at 30K Feet: Frontier Airlines”
We were returning from our Florida vacation, thankfully on a direct flight, struggling mightily to come to terms with leaving behind the sun and the beach and the gemutlichkeit for […]
Author Archives: Mark & Sonja Gudgel
“Knee deep in the water somewhere.” The Week in Wine, March 11-18, 2018.
Right before I left, I got really into “Knee Deep” — a song by the Zach Brown Band that features Jimmy Buffet. I love Jimmy Buffet, and his love of […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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