C’mon get your bid on!

The auction is open. Let’s start it off strong! Bid here.
Did I mention that tax and shipping are included in the offer? That means the winner gets all the feel-good fuzzies of supporting a great cause plus a bottle of the world’s best wine delivered right to their doorstep for FREE.
(Please do note the shipping [...]

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Going once, going twice…

Drinking wine is now even better for your health! I’ve donated a bottle of Je Suis Syrah to this very cool charity auction to benefit the Bowdoin Street Health Center in Boston. The center was built to provide affordable health care services to the widely diverse Dorchester population. Funds raised at auction will go towards [...]

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The Days of Wine and Roses

They are not long, the days of wine and roses: / Out of a misty dream / Our path emerges for a while, then closes / Within a dream. – Ernest Dowson
I went for a walk yesterday with some friends, and we came unexpectedly across the beautiful Morcom Rose Garden. There were hundreds of varieties, [...]

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Je suis confused. What does it mean?

I’ve encountered a surprising number of people who don’t know what Je Suis means. I’m trying not to judge. I’m going to save you a trip to Google Translate: Je Suis means I am. In French. No, I’m not French, but my grapes are French varietals and were aged in French oak, and isn’t French [...]

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More than you wanted to know?

Sarah B. has been tremendously patient waiting for me to post answers to her questions. (Has January been the most dramatic month of anyone else’s life?) So without further ado…
BACKGROUND FROM SKB: My adviser and I took a potential faculty candidate out to dinner… Well she was Australian and apparently knew her wines (better than [...]

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Girl Power

My aunt forwarded this article from the London Telegraph entitled, “Wine: grape leaps for womankind.” It discusses, briefly, the infiltration (in nicer words) of women into the “boys club” of wine making and selling.
Here is one part that stood out to me: Dee Blackstock, one of Waitrose’s team of buyers, thinks that women have a [...]

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To a Graceful Thanksgiving

Over the next few days, scores of bloggers around the country are cross-posting the message below to encourage conversation about a very difficult topic: how we want to die. Usually, this blog focuses on the pleasures of life (conviviality, wine, chocolate), but when you think about it, isn’t taking charge of death a way of [...]

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Two fun things I picked up with Friday’s SF Chronicle Wine section:
1. Jon Bonné’s piece, “OBAMARAMA: Wine-producing states vote blue“
Aside from the fact that I really could have used his title in my last Scrabble game, Jon’s fun little piece is also useful for those looking to rub in their Democratic superiority. (Aren’t we all?) [...]

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How life was meant to be

If I look concerned, it’s only because I’m wondering if ten glasses is going to be enough between the two of us. (Domaine Carneros, Napa)

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Blue states, red wines

The folks over at Decanter magazine offer this analysis of the candidates’ drinking preferences based on the White House Wine Quiz.
An excerpt from the article:
“While the quiz reveals the Democrats to be more liberal in their drinking habits, the same cannot be said of the Republicans – McCain and Palin drink very rarely.  Although, a [...]

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