So Adam from Untangled Vine was cool enough to drop a dime on some of his fellow bloggers about a bill being put before Congress. Dealing with Farmers’ Markets, the bill is designed to make it easier for your, mine, his, and her local farmers to get funding for their markets.
It’s a teeny, tiny sub-atomic […]

I cringe at many grape names:
Gros Manseng sounds like …eeewww.
Müller Thurgau… a wedding party?
Deckrot … WTF??
Ondenc … a failed dot com?
Scheurebe … won an Emmy for Monk?
Flaischweiner …can’t make that up.
…and pretty much all German hybrids
…and most Hungarian grapes
Steen …drink it or hunt it?
Jacobain …will it overthrow the Merlot?
Sargamuskotaly …the slut in high school? […]

….for one of those really important things other than wine that I was talking about the other day. Namely, children being our future and all that.
Open a bottle, pop some corn, & make yourself a more aware human being by watching this documentary, The First Year, directed by Davis Guggenheim. All you need is Flash […]

This soap. Oh my dear sweet baby jeebus!
It smells..just like…Mourvedre, which is one of my
favorite grapes. My brother got me the Lush Purple Haze gift pack for my birthday, and this soap was
the highlight. If you are not familiar with Lush, I’m
so very sorry. It’s a line of fresh, hand-made
bath and body products that are […]

In response to a comment on his comment about the uppity, humilty-lacking sommelier where Billie Z Cook cooks:
Oh yes, JJ, he lacks many things. But apparently that seems to aid in his success. This business you all call wine is completely f***ed up. Wine pros seem to want to keep people in the dark. Me […]

I’m not just a wine nerd. I’m also a tea nerd. I know tea nerds are very critical of anything prepackaged, but I was very impressed last year when I first tasted the full line of Rishi Tea. So I was all smiles when I got my paws on some free samples of their herbal […]

Many of you have asked me to introduce a wine review search feature, or just make my reviews easier to pursue. This has been on my very long list of things to do, as well. I just had to think of the best, and easiest way to do it–to assure that I could maintain said […]

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The other night my friend Meghan came over with a free range bird, homemade guacamole, fresh baked sugar cookies, and a 2004 Clos Mimi Petite Rousse in response to my reminiscing about it a few posts back. Were my hands broken? No. Did I come down with Polio? No. It was a(nother) belated birthday celebration. […]

Does it surprise you at all that I don’t do Valentine’s Day? Well, except for the day after must-sell-at-reduced-prices Valentine’s chocolates. (I’ve been known to chow on month old Santa’s, too) It’s too late for me to make any suggestions, except that you better get your ass into your favorite cholate shop by the end […]