May 24, 2007
10 Things I Learned On My One Day Trip To New Jersey 1. Seat mates on airplanes don’t mind as much if it’s white wine that is spilled on their suit. 2. It’s very difficult to bribe a airline ticket counter agent…even if you offer a smile along with money. 3. New Jersey wine retailers are very cool folks who understand the stakes for themselves and consumers when it comes to the issue of direct shipment of wine. 4. Bad…
May 18, 2007
I’m struggling to try and figure out how to wrap my mind around this statement by a group of whiny, good for nothing, burdens on society (actually, it appears I have found a way to wrap my mind around the statements of this group, doesn’t it). For the past few years, Regional Committee for Viticultural Action (CRAV), has been taking "direct action" against certain sectors of the French wine industry through violence and intimidation. Their goal? More subsidies for a…
May 7, 2007
Expectations. They color everything. Last night I sat down in my TV room with a good friend and a bottle of 1999 Haut Brion to watch the Mayweather–De La Hoya fight I’d Tivo’ed the night before. All day Sunday I avoided any media because I didn’t want to know the outcome. Seemed like everywhere I went a newspaper popped into my line of sight. Every time I turned on the radio a sports report was just coming on. In any…
May 3, 2007
Last night I was thumbing through National Geograhic Traveller and I come across one of those "how to DO" articles about Disneyworld. Insider trips, how to get te best out of the experience, etc. I like these articles. Every now and then they have a nugget in them that can transform your experience. But it got me thinking, as Tourist Season heads toward us here in my neck of the woods, there needs to be a HOW TO "DO" SONOMA …
Apr 25, 2007
Yesterday I had to sit back in my chair for a short moment and reflect on a very interesting moment. I had just been accused by a moderately influential person of being a shill for bootleggers. As I thought about the verbal outburst that I took in a phone call to Illinois I realized that it wasn’t about a point of law as the facts the gentleman mustered were not facts at all but a complete misreading of the law….