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What Happens After Friendsgiving? Life Moving Forward With Wines From Chile
The day came – my favorite day of the year – FRIENDSGIVING. I plan for this holiday (is it really a holiday?) all year; I create Pinterest boards, pick up odds and ends as I go, stock pile recipes – you can judge, but it brings me ultimate joy to create a moment in time…
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The Glass of Everything
At this moment, I feel as if I’ve stayed in the bath tub too long; pruned up, drunk on steam, and trying to balance on jelly legs. This is what happens when you try to do and be everything; and what American isn’t guilty of just that. Why can’t we breathe through our day rather…
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I’m Liking What Everyone Else is Liking – Some Silver Oak Love
One of the biggest questions that I get asked, as a wine professional, is my opinion on the wines that have secured their feet in the sand as “wine fan” favorites. I am here to admit that I do not regularly drink Sassicaia, Tignanello, Penfolds Grange (that may be a lie), Caymus – you get…
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Forcing A Holiday Feeling – And Few Wine Suggestions
I have been drinking everything in sight lately. Now hold on. I haven’t been drinking in excess, or carrying on like an idiot. I’ve just been indulging much more than I have in months. Well, one sip would be more than I’ve had in months being I had a little stand off with wine for…
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Not Being Normal Is The New Normal; Drinking Quintessa
Ever feel like you just don’t fit. You don’t fit because you are not “wrong”, you are just not like everyone else. This is not ego-centric, this is not an excuse for your misfortune, this is not coming from a bitter and sour core. I am talking to the people that cannot shut off their…
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Drink This: Provenance Vineyards
Quite often, at a wine tasting, a consumer will ask me what my favorite wine on the table is. I never have a good answer for this mainly because I see wine differently than you do. The bottle has been researched, studied, atheistically torn apart, put back together with a pretty marketing bow, and sold…
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Holiday Wine Haul – Noble Vines 337
This is the time of year I get the most questions on what to buy, consume, serve your family (don’t spend money on these people when it comes to alcoholic consumption), and everything in between… I thought I would break it down, get out of my OWN snobbish wine box, and taste new wines under…