Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
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This weekend marks the celebration of the birthdays of two creative geniuses. I don’t know with certainty whether they actually were “drunk guys,” although Robert Burns had quite the reputation, but both of them were born in the 1750’s, which meant that they lived before modern water and sewage systems. Thus, they likely drank fermented …
This evening’s tasting at my favorite coffee shop/wine bar featured wines from Australia, and really, what’s not to like about the Land Down Under? It’s a country and continent all in one, it even has its own cheesy 80’s song, and one of its most beloved animals, the koala, is drunk all the time on …
Tonight it’s going below freezing for the somethingth night in a row here in the ATL. Actually, it was only above freezing for a couple of hours today, long enough for my husband to drag my lazy ass to the gym, then to the grocery store, where, miraculously, there was still some milk and bread …
I can’t remember exactly when I graduated from the cheap, sweet stuff to “real” wines, but it must have been before 2002, when my husband and I stumbled in to — and, admittedly, out of — the Georgia Wine Fest. A group of my friends from graduate school and we had all chipped in and …