Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
Luckily these bottles were empty before the SEC Championship. Typically picking up Holiday gifts at the grocery store is considered, if you’ll forgive the pun, in poor taste. What could grocery store shelves hold of any value beyond the tan and gold boxes of candy with maybe two edible pieces in them? Okay, I’ll always …
On the eve of the Decatur Wine Festival, I brought Richard Vine’s The Curious World of Wine (Perigee/Penguin, 2012) with me to Café Lily in case I had time to read the end of it before meeting a friend. Allen Sanders, the wine expert, noticed it, and we had a great conversation about Zinfandels. So, …
As always after a wine bloggers conference, I sit back and ponder what kind of wine blogger I aspire to be and how to make that happen. The first thing that comes to mind is, “more consistent,” and believe me, Hubby and I really appreciate our readers who stop by to see if we’ve posted …
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 …
Mountains Pair Well with Wine In anticipation of this year’s Wine Bloggers Conference, Hubby and I drove through Georgia wine country last weekend to pick up a few bottles to share and more to drink ourselves. We had been to several of the wineries before and decided to try out a few new ones. I …
I have a phobia of blind wine tastings. It’s not severe enough to warrant treatment, but they still make me very nervous. You see, when you’ve been deemed as someone who knows about wine, people expect you to know what you’re tasting. I frequently don’t. What gets in the way? Expectations. Consider a recent study …
When I worked in a medical setting, we’d be visited by these strange creatures. Well, not strange, exactly. They were young, attractive, verbal, intelligent (YAVI, or what Irving Yalom says therapists consider their ideal clients), well dressed, and brought food and presents to the docs and office staff. All they wanted in return was the …
Greetings, Ladies of Decatur! In case you’re looking like the family Easter bunny up there (that’s my “nephew” Roger, btw) and need some girl time to recover from the holiday, you’re in luck. The Ladies of Decatur gatherings are back, and yes, I realize it’s not the first Friday this month, so, um, April Fool’s! …
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 …
I’m pleased to present some new notes from Random Oenophile West Coast Correspondent James Bassett. We talked about this post during the recent Seattle snowstorm, so I applaud his efforts to continue his thoughtful wine drinking under such trying circumstances. Sadly, by the time we thought about him getting pictures of the wine bottles in …