Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
(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 …
The first time I remember having sherry, Hubby and I were staying in a boutique hotel in the North Beach part of San Francisco. Every afternoon at 6:00 p.m. they would serve sherry. I don’t know what kind it was, only that it tasted like alcoholic maple syrup. It pretty much turned me into a …
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 …
Since the kids these days are all about lists, I thought I’d create one to discuss some of the highlights from our recent trip to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada. Before you ask, no we didn’t see any of the Women’s World Cup soccer (futbol for those of you from outside the U.S.) …
Well, I’ve been here, there, and everywhere, or that’s how it seems. The past month and a half has included trips to North Georgia, Athens, Dallas, Seattle, Okanagan Valley, and Vancouver. I do plan to blog on some of those, but I wanted to get back to the basics. I’m ready to get serious about …
I wrote this on Tuesday and am posting this from our hotel room in San Francisco. We’re headed north today to Healdsburg, and then to Sonoma tomorrow. I really did mean to post this earlier this week, but I was busy being a psychologist rather than an oenophile. Okay, I was drinking wine as well …
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, …
This year’s Decatur Wine Festival has a focus on organic and sustainably produced wines. In the same spirit, this is a sustainable blog post in that I’ve recycled some of last year’s etiquette and survival post. Now that we’ve all survived the elections, who wants a glass of wine? Or several? Seriously, whoever planned the …