Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
One of the interesting things about wine and food is how everyone approaches it in their own way. Sometimes people stick with the rules. Sometimes they look for how to break the rules. And sometime people just do them. At this year’s Atlanta Food & Wine Festival, I saw all three. In the first session …
Last week we talked about wine pairing differences. This week we’re talking similarities. Need to catch up? Here are the wine 101 posts so far: What does wine taste like? Wine pairing 101 – Opposites attract Body As I mentioned in the What does wine taste like? post, a wine’s body refers to how heavy …
One evening in 2016 Hubby and I went for a date night dinner at Pricci, one of our favorite restaurants here in Atlanta. We especially like to go on Thursday, when all of the bottles on their wine list are half off. I got the lobster special, and he had a fish called opa, which was …
I had a bunch of posts queued up but then realized none of them will make sense unless we start with the basics of what wine tastes like. The best way to figure this out is to try a bunch of them, but since you may not be up for doing a tasting right now, …
When Hubby and I backed out of this year’s Wine Bloggers Conference due to a work conflict on my part, we discussed closing the wine blog. We hadn’t updated it regularly in a while, and we had both burned out on social media. I was (and still am) limiting Facebook to what’s necessary for my …
There are some constants in my life that I need to start planning for. For example, I get called for jury duty about every 20-22 months – “random” drawing system? Yeah, whatever. New fancy shoes will give me blisters. And I’ll get a nasty cold about every second Christmas. This was a cold year. As …
(Editor’s note – feeling fine now, middle of the following week. Apparently sleeping when I needed and wine helped fight off the bug) Saturday, November 11: Phew, it’s been quite a day, but not in the exciting sense. When I woke this morning, I felt pretty awful. I hadn’t slept well and kept waking with …
So it’s time for some wine blogging madness. Live wine blogging of white and rosé wines. This is about as close to stream of consciousness as my blog will get. First wine – Antica from Napa Valley brings us an oaky chardonnay. It’s actually well-balanced and not too oaky. And she has a cool map. …
At least I know we’re in Sonoma. Hubby and I are in Santa Rosa for the 2017 Wine Bloggers Conference. As y’all know, this used to be a much more active blog, but then I got my first fiction contract with Samhain Publishing, and between that first contract in 2013 and Samhain’s demise this past …
Hi, all, it’s been quite the busy year here at Chez Random Oenophile. I may have mentioned that I’m now writing fiction in addition to my full-time job as a psychologist, and I got to add the role of publisher in March when Samhain Publishing, who had published seven out of the ten novels and …