Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
So here’s the bottle of wine we opened tonight: 2005 Lange Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir For those who don’t know, Open That Bottle Night is an occasion to open that special bottle of wine you’ve been saving. It happens toward the end of February, and we were technically a day late, but Hubby went …
I started this blog post yesterday with a comment about how the weather was very similar to Napa with a high in the low 50’s and rain showers. Yeah, that changed today at around lunch time when big, heavy snowflakes gradually replaced the rain. Now it looks like it should be January, not March. It’s …
Hubby and I had been talking for the past year about taking a trip out to Lodi, which is a wine-growing region about 85 miles east and slightly north of San Francisco. All of the Lodi wines we’d tasted were big and fruity, our favorite kind. I had suspected that February would be slow, and …
I’d thought about writing a long, drawn-out explanation for why I’ve disappeared over the past two months, but I’d rather focus on the present and future, so I’ll give you a brief overview: Last September: Started businessLast October: Went on vacation to Belgium for family reunionLast November: Put lots of time and energy into marketingLast …
People who live outside the Southeast are often surprised at how cold it can get in the winter. We’ve also been pretty dismayed at this year’s turn of temperatures. My personal indicators of “when it gets cold” — wearing my long wool/cashmere coat, having to bring the potted plants inside at night, putting flannel sheets …
Last night’s JavaMonkey tasting was advertised as “Sustainable Wines.” It turned out to be “Sustainable Wines from one particular winery in Chile.” However, considering it was brought to us by the same distributor who gave Jess the 2006 cask of Nouveau for the Beaujolais release party a couple of weeks ago, I’m not going to …
Now that I’ve recovered from my travels to Europe and have decided to drop NaNoWriMo, I can get back to blogging. Yay! Just in case you missed it, the 2008 Beaujolais Nouveau was released last Thursday. We and several other oenophiles celebrated with a release party at JavaMonkey. In spite of some slight snags like …
Greetings, fellow Oenophiles! Hubby and I just returned from our trip to Belgium. The reason was ostensibly so we could attend my mother’s family reunion and he could meet the Belgian side of the family. However, we had our own agendas. He planned to drink his way across the country by sampling as many Belgian …
I apologize in advance for any typos in this post. I’m writing with a 15-lb cat sitting on my right hand. It’s kind of like in the old Anglican “Book of Common Prayer,” wherein someone gets to “sitteth upon the right hand. And purreth at the notion of yummy red wine.” Okay, maybe that last …
As an oenophile who also happens to really like food, I love wine dinners, especially ones where someone else does all the pairing work for me. As luck would have it, I have two to report on this week. They actually took place last week, but I’m still playing catch up. On September 21, Hubby …