What’s inside your Box?
What’s inside your Box? Do you remember those Ruffino wine bottles that in our hey-day we used to stick multi-colored candles in to build up some kind of cosmic center-piece for our wobbly dining...
View Article“Come in” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”.
Dylan wrote the poem and sang the verse. I listened to it on the way home last night as the rain was piercing the windows and the cars behind were speeding past at high octane, and I realized that when...
View ArticleLet’s Spread the LOVE
Let’s spread the LOVE Saturday November 22 at Noon. We will begin opening bottles of champagne for the young, the restless, the carefree, the wise and everyone in between. It’s our way of starting...
View ArticleAmByth – Forever (in Welsh me lad)
What’s all the buzz? All I hear is rain pelting down on the sidewalk. Some say that Father Christmas is on his way – I hope he’s not driving south on I95 – if he is he’s gonna be late. But that...
View ArticleAnd the Barolo said to the Brunello…
It’s difficult to imagine a Christmas dinner without a Brunello or a Barolo. Just as it is difficult to imagine a Christmas tree without presents or a roast turkey without gravy. There is so much...
View ArticleThe Yogi of Chianti
There are good days and then there are bad days. Then there are days that you make good, whether that’s because they started bad or because you wanted them to be good or because what you did simply...
View ArticleSuper Value ~ Super Tuscan
Here’s a bottle of wine worth celebrating with – if, like me, you are in the mood to celebrate the end of the Artic winter. I saw my blacktop driveway for the first time yesterday morning – too early...
View ArticleA Slice of Pizza and Spann
Sunny days are coming soon. But just in case they don’t we have Peter Spann pouring some sunshine this coming Thursday, March 19. Peter is the owner and wine-maker at Spann Vineyards in California. We...
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Wine for Easter, rosés and all
I think I am leaning toward the Oxford English Dictionary’s version of the verb ‘Spring’: “A resilient device, typically a helical metal coil that can be pressed or pulled but returns to its former...
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Spring Spritz and Divine Intervention
Am I wrong? Don’t all answer at once! But as spring rears its beautiful head I look around at what is going on in the world and I see a huge amount of discord. Between the chaos in parts of the Middle...
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