Stay at home mom, lover of wine
Awake at five, lunches packed, presents opened, cupcakes frosted, drop-offs, four loads of laundry, a couple of hours of work and a very brief workout. Pick-ups, stop at library to deal with missing book, trip to the toy store for the birthday boy punctuated by gelato courtesy of his grandmother. Rhyming game leads to discovery […]
Read MoreI probably don’t have to tell you that doing a cleanse is NOT conducive to wine writing. Three weeks without wine means that I was not the only thing drying out. My apologies for being quiet as of late. Just when I was ready to open some wine and dine on grains, I was delayed […]
Read MoreThere have been a few moments in life that I have surprised myself with my own strength. Hiking the Na Pali coast, natural childbirth (x2), and the Dr. Junger Clean Gut diet that I have been doing for the past 14 days. No coffee, alcohol, grains, sugar, fruit, or fun. I resisted pizza (x2), cut an […]
Read MoreIt was evident how much planning went into the Rodney Strong Silver Anniversary long before it even began. We were given “teasers” at the dinner in Solvang. As the preparations were made, the details were made public on Social Media. A month before, I was asked to “live report” from the event. Two weeks before, social media […]
Read MoreIt is 6am and I am sitting in the hotel lobby at the Marriott in Santa Barbara. which means three things. 1. I made it to #WBC14! 2. I had so much to say that I couldn’t lay in bed anymore. 3. I had so much self-control last night with the great wine flowing that […]
Read MoreWe all know what you’re supposed to do when life hands you lemons. And when life hands you a 40 year old vineyard, you make wine. When Scott and Martha Stinson were looking for a place to retire, they came upon the property which boasts an eighteenth century farmhouse and 12 acres of vines. Scott’s background […]
Read MoreThis past summer, my family and I flew into San Francisco, pieced together equipment from my brother and father-in-law, and headed north. I had seen them before. I was probably eight. At that age, everything seems a bit taller than it does now. You tilt your head back, way back and gaze up, up, up […]
Read More…or what I’ve been drinking this week. I don’t shop this weekend. But I do enjoy wine, so I thought I’d share my own version of “Black Friday.” The only wines I could think of that begin with a K are either bigger producers or ones that I haven’t had in while so forgive the […]
Read MoreLately I have been writing about a little of this and a lot of that but not a lot about wine. Lest I forget why many of you started reading, here are some of the highlights of my summer quaffing. 1) Champlain Valley wines. I was pleasantly surprised by what I was tasting. Think cool […]
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