It’s here again! It’s time for the Second Annual Toast To Mom. From now through May 11th, you can join Clos du Bois in celebrating moms everywhere while raising money (our goal is $25,000) for WomenHeart, a fantastic organization dedicated to helping women with heart disease.
Here are two ways you can help:
1) Go to www.toasttomom.com, […]
I am so psyched that grilling weather is back. Yes, I know, I went on all winter about braising this, and braising that. But enough already. I’m craving fire.
One thing in particular I love to do is skewer a few pieces of meat or vegetables on a stick and set it to sizzle on the […]
Well, not exactly a Bordeaux, but a Bordeaux-style* wine—Clos du Bois’ Marlstone to be exact. Top-level, it sounds fairly simple. You mix together various percentages of the classic Bordeaux varietals to create something with a character all its own.
But in practice, it’s a bit more complex than that.
How Much of Which Varietal?First of all, […]
Unusual for me to post two days in a row, I know. But I’m wallowing in a sort of philosophical conundrum that I’d be interested in hearing your views on.
My head is spinning from all the fantastic presentations going on here at IACP, many on blogging and New Media. Some of the blogs were already […]
First of all, so sorry for the down time last weekend. We had a little pointing problem with our DNS and it took a while to get pointed to the right person to fix it. And now I’m in New Orleans.
I remember the first time I stepped off the plane in New Orleans, the air […]
I’m finally getting around to writing about the seasons here in the vineyards—what’s going on with the vines and buds, rather than what’s going on in my life. Thank you all for your sweet words that helped so much during the tough, tough time of letting Tally go (truth be told, the tough part isn’t […]
A strange thing has been happening to me lately. I’ve picked up this strange obsession with capers. It all started with the Sicilian-style potato gratin in Bon Appetit last month (photo from the magazine pictured right . . . see why I couldn’t resist?). Then it expanded to pan sauces and salads. And now jars that […]
These past four days have felt like four weeks. After much agonizing, we said good-bye to our beloved Tally on Saturday. Thankfully, Noe’s Grandma and Grandpa are visiting, which gave us room to just unplug and mourn. Thankfully, too, Christopher had set up a mini-getaway on Sunday-Monday to celebrate our anniversary. So the morning after […]
