Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
My brain is weird. I never have stress dreams about work during the week, but just let me have a long weekend or vacation, and three to four nights in, I’ll have work-related dreams. Typically it’s some sort of scheduling problem, like three new patients show up at once, or like this morning, a particularly …
As we learned last week at the wine bloggers’ conference in Oregon, Pinot Noir grapes tend to reflect where they’re grown down to the soil type and the weather. In 2010, a couple of oenophile friends of ours decided their lives needed a little excitement, so they pitted Pinot Noir wines from around the world …
This past Thursday, I decided to humor my tyrannical Fitbit* and walk to work so I could try to get my 10,000 steps for the day. That’s harder than one would think. Apparently Georgia has decided to give tax breaks to movie companies, and Decatur was the site for the filming of a flick called …
Last Thursday’s tasting at JavaMonkey was supposedly going to cover familiar territory: California. The good news is that there are a heck of a lot of wineries in that state. The bad news is that only two were featured at the tasting, Joel Gott, whose website address, www.gottwines.com, made me snicker, and Chateau St. Jean. …