Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
Day Two: Breakfast at the Kennett Square B&B on Sunday morning: French toast and turkey sausage. If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve recently rediscovered a love of French toast, so it’s our usual Sunday breakfast. It was nice to have someone else make it for me and clean up afterward, and …
Hubby and I have a mission to taste wine in each state that grows its own grapes and makes it. The original goal was to taste wine in each state that makes it, but some luster is lost when the juice is California or Niagara. Not that a talented winemaker can’t put his own stamp …
Once upon a time, there was a stressed-out allied health professional with curly hair the color of old pennies, but shiny. We’ll skip the debate as to whether it’s blond or red, and we’ll completely ignore the gray that’s popping in – they’re just really light blond, darnit! She had a long four-day week with …
As you know Hubby and I like to drink for a good cause. Okay, we like to drink period, but when we can do so for a good cause, even better. We recently had the opportunity to try the current offerings of Charity Case Wine (their image, cropped, above). Founded in 2008 after a rainy …
This coming Friday is the first Friday in March, so that means it’s time for another Ladies of Decatur tweetup! Date: Friday, March 4Location: Carpe DiemTime: 6-ish (I’ll aim to be there around 5:30) Please leave me a comment or tweet me at @RandomOenophile (link to follow me above) so I know approximately how many …
Yes, I’m actually blogging about wine this week! I have to do that every once in a while so y’all don’t think I’m knocked up. On the other hand, a recent comment addressing me as “sir” on a post from three years ago tells me that people still think I’m a guy. I was supposed …
I have a little secret to share, and it’s scandalous. You see, I’m in love with another man, and he’s a member of the cloth. Even more shocking? Hubby doesn’t mind! It’s because the thing I’m in love with isn’t his eyes or hair, it’s his… …recipes! I’m talking about Brother Rick Curry, of course, …
Being an oenophile has its advantages, namely friends who are willing to drink for you and send you notes! My very talented friend James Bassett lives in Seattle and does sculpting, Qi-Gong instruction, and freelance writing and editing when he’s not drinking wine. You can see his website here. Everything below is his wonderfully detailed …
The first Friday of January brought Hubby to a hockey game, so I decided to have a happy hour with some of my Twitter friends in Decatur. The small gathering went so well, I thought I’d try to make it a monthly thing: First Friday Women of Decatur Happy Hour. Okay, we can come up …
This wine review is a sad one because a few months after we received the samples, Hubby and I found out that Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyards went into foreclosure. We had good memories of visiting there during our wine trip to Virginia in 2008, although we were a little put off by the wine …