Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
Happy belated Valentine’s Day! I hope it was happy and that you had some wonderful imbibing with your sweetie and/or your favorite vintage. Just a couple of blog updates: My guest blogger for last weekend bailed, and the wine-mary polls are going to be open until I get enough votes to declare a winner for …
Due to poor voter turnout (except for the awesome Dan) and the fact that I couldn’t go stump for votes at the Java Monkey wine tasting last Thursday due to the flu, the grape primary has been extended for another week. A guest blogger will review the wines from the JM tasting later this weekend. …
I had originally thought to do a “super-Tuscan Tuesday,” but seeing as it’s also Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras, our dinner plan is pancakes and other breakfast-ish foods with the beverage of choice being decaf Southern Pecan Creme coffee from O’Henry’s in Birmingham. So, in honor of the presidential primaries, here is a ticket to vote on. …
First, allow me to say: well, damn, I was really hoping New England would do it. Okay, now that I’ve gotten that out of my system… Hubby and I poured for the Sherlock’s wine tasting yesterday, which was titled, “Superbowl Showdown.” I’ll be honest, I drank beer this evening to go with my burger and …
Last night, my husband and a couple of our friends braved the cold, wet weather to go to Palate, a wine and dessert bar in the Oakhurst area. Yes, it’s a wine blogger reviewing Palate. I figured I would start easy. We chose the “cheese plate” appetizer, which ended up being enough cheese, bread, olives, …
It was brought to my attention by one of my readers that there has been some difficulty with leaving comments. I’ve now set it that anyone can leave comments, so hopefully this has fixed the problem. I apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for being patient with me as I’m learning all of this. CD
This weekend marks the celebration of the birthdays of two creative geniuses. I don’t know with certainty whether they actually were “drunk guys,” although Robert Burns had quite the reputation, but both of them were born in the 1750’s, which meant that they lived before modern water and sewage systems. Thus, they likely drank fermented …
This evening’s tasting at my favorite coffee shop/wine bar featured wines from Australia, and really, what’s not to like about the Land Down Under? It’s a country and continent all in one, it even has its own cheesy 80’s song, and one of its most beloved animals, the koala, is drunk all the time on …
Tonight it’s going below freezing for the somethingth night in a row here in the ATL. Actually, it was only above freezing for a couple of hours today, long enough for my husband to drag my lazy ass to the gym, then to the grocery store, where, miraculously, there was still some milk and bread …
I can’t remember exactly when I graduated from the cheap, sweet stuff to “real” wines, but it must have been before 2002, when my husband and I stumbled in to — and, admittedly, out of — the Georgia Wine Fest. A group of my friends from graduate school and we had all chipped in and …