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 …
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 …
(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 …
Greetings, all! Well, after a month busy with traveling to celebrate our birthdays – highlights coming soon – Hubby and I are back in Atlanta, which is abloom with spring flowers. There’s also quite the tree orgy going on with pollen showing up on our cars any time they’re outside for more than, oh, 30 …
Greetings, everyone, and welcome to the new and improved Random Oenophile website and blog! Hubby and I are really excited for this beautiful new site courtesy of Selestiele Designs, and we look forward to getting back to blogging on a regular basis. Btw, mobile users, I know the background image is a little wonky. Trust …
I prefer beginning vacations to ending them. At least this week I’m tapering off vacation by having gone from Asheville to Blairsville, where Hubby and I are helping my dad celebrate a big birthday ending in 0. I’m so glad we live close enough to my parents to do things like that. After Battery Park, …
Today’s post is being brought to you by the Battery Park Book Exchange. Yes, I might be at the bar hanging out with the spoils of my bookstore tour of Asheville and a glass of Prosecco. Hubby and I have our system worked out for visiting beer towns – he finds breweries, and I find …