I don’t know about you guys, but to me, summer means one thing. Sure, there are barbecues. Yes, there’s the abundance in the garden too. But summer—warm weather of any sort as a matter of fact—makes me crave a picnic more than just about anything. So I’ve done some digging and pulled together a roundup […]
I racked my brains (and the thesaurus) for a word that meant “helper” and rhymed with “dilemma,” but, alas, I couldn’t come up with any. So I just went with “assistant” and am going to jump into the main purpose of this post, which is to draw attention to the little number I added over […]
Wine has inspired more prose and poetry over the ages than just about any other subject outside of love (and for us die-hard wine fans, one could argue that even those are related). Robert Louis Stevenson even went so far as to call wine “bottled poetry.”
In a teaser to a little something I have […]
I had the oddest experience this past weekend in light of the last post and I thought you’d all get a kick out of it. Christopher and I had driven over the hills and stopped off for a cocktail at Solage in Calistoga during a glorious, honey-toned late afternoon before rolling down to Press, in […]
Earlier this week, we looked at how to deal with
I know I have a lot of parts floating out there, but I couldn’t resist this little mini-series of posts on what to do when things go wrong in the world of wine. The first part, At Home, looks at spills, chills and crumbles.
Don’t Cry Over . . .
The Scenario: You’ve just dribbled […]
I know it’s a little late, but dang it, I’ve got to get an “ode to peas” in before the peas come out of the garden. How did spring go by so fast?
My life could really be defined by my love-hate (actually more like hate-love) relationship with peas—with vegetables really, but peas were sort of […]
Normally, I’m a very clear delineator of tasks when it comes to fish and fishing. I cast about with the line, hopefully hitting the water now and then, and I use every ounce of feminine guile to get someone else . . . most often male . . . most often Dan F . . […]
I figure we’re all pretty inundated with grilling recipes going into this long weekend. Not that that’s a bad thing. I just thought rather than add to the mass I’d try to fill a bare spot in the holiday repertoire. Hors d’oeuvres. Munchies. Finger food.
And for that I found inspiration in two places. First, my cover crop of […]
There was a blurb in the BBC about how music affects our perception of wine that I thought you all might enjoy, in light of the little evaluation series we have going.
It focuses on a study by Heriot Watt University in which researchers picked four songs to represent four different sets of attributes:
Carmina Burana by […]
