Here we go again…another fall season, and the beginning of a new round of monthly wine events. This year we’ll be tasting old wines, new wines, and perhaps some unusual wines. Again, we’ll have the companionship of friends with similar interests: a love of wine and good food to complement it, and an interest in learning more about various aspects of wine and the local wine industry. (more…)
Summer is a time for memories, for remembering past summers and for making new memories on which to reflect in future summers. A cool glass of wine on a hot summer evening encourages reminiscing. (more…)
It must be summer, as Memorial Day…or Decoration Day as I knew it growing up…is over. The many cars creeping through Leavenworth toward points east and north made me wonder if gas somehow costs less on the Other Side. (more…)
At last, around the edges of my gardens and on the north-facing slope, my daffodils are released from their prison of ice and snow. As Wordsworth wrote over two hundred years ago, “And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.” (more…)
As T.S. Eliot so aptly wrote, “April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” It stirs my memory, recalling a rainy-day April lunch at Greystone in Napa, sipping a 1992 Leonetti Cab, and having a strong desire to have it never end. Ah, those once in a lifetime moments. (more…)
As our old friend Willie used to sing, we’re “on the road again”. The snow just isn’t melting quickly enough and I am beginning to see the reason for so many domestic disturbances:.cabin fever. Hopefully a quick trip through California wine country will be the cure. (more…)