Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I read recently that there is a new advocacy group based in Illinois run by consumers who simply want to be able to have any wine they choose shipped to them directly. Now this, to me, seems as simple request…not to mention a fundamental right. But as many of you know, when it comes to [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
‘Tis the season! This time of year is a very active time for Humanitas. Holiday parties, both in the office and in restaurants, are featuring lots of wine. And because we give our profits to charity, many people choose Humanitas to serve and to give as gifts. And the great thing is, the more we [...]
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Declarative statement: the best Holiday movie ever is ‘It’s A Wonderful Life.’
There. I said it. Now go ahead and challenge me.
Seriously, Frank Capra’s classic is a glorious example of how movies should be made, and it is made even more perfect by Jimmy Stewart in his best performance. And Jimmy Stewart at his best is [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
For those following along (there has to be at least 7 of you!), you know that Wednesdays are my haiku days. Don’t know why…they just are. I think I just like the alliteration. And recently…it has something to do with eating & drinking during the Holidays. I’ve been discussing our college theorem ‘more equals better’ [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
I love baseball. I played a little in college at UCLA…a long, long time ago. And somewhere along the way, I made the psychotic decision that I had a better future in wine. Hmmm…maybe I should have thought about that a bit more.
Now I’m simply a fan. And other than some feisty over-the-line wiffle ball [...]
A few weeks back I proposed a ‘modest proposal’ – a simple plan for all wineries to pay (yet another) excise tax on every gallon of wine produced in order to free up shipping direct to consumers in every state of the union. The concept is simple — pay a tax up front to the Federal [...]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I can normally find just about any occasion to drink wine. As I’ve mentioned before, it goes so well with everything…and makes everything so much better. One of the things I’ve discovered is that it is a blast to pair the appropriate wine with particular sporting events. And as there is never a shortage of [...]
Last Friday & Saturday I attended the first annual Wine Blogger’s Conference held at the venerable Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa. In addition to attending several tastings, meeting so many wonderful new & talented people, and finally attaching faces to the names, I had the opportunity to serve on a panel for one of the breakout sessions. [...]
One of the joys…and curses of living in Wine Country (in my case Napa) is that no matter where you go, someone is talking about wine or the wine business. And often, I pick up little bits of conversation — not the whole thing — making for great fun figuring out the context. These non-sequiturs [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
I love it when a wine ‘tastes like the place.’ The word is ‘typicity‘ - cool word, I think. The wine may not be something I particularly am used to, or maybe even like right off the bat, but I appreciate that it is true to the site…true to it’s roots.
And it occurs to me that humans have [...]
