Dec 13, 2011
As a publicist working in Northern California in the wine trade, there are certain things I come to vow never to do. While many have to do with my trade, others have to do with the result of working in Northern California and working in the Wine Trade. Those things I vow never to do, in no particular order: 1. COMPLAIN ABOUT DRINKING OR TASTING WINEI was reminded of why I never do this when today I saw a tweet…
Dec 12, 2011
Dear Family and Friends:(As always, please pardon the form-letter) Can you believe it? Another year is here and nearly gone. Of course, we are so thankful for all the people and good things in our life…including the chance to send off our annual report. Where to start? The garden was quite beautiful this year. Our Nasturtiums were particularly generous this year, overflowing their tubs there in the back yard. Aren't Nasturtiums lovely? And we learned you can eat the flowers…
Dec 5, 2011
It's one thing to publish a Top 10 or Top 100 list of your favorite individual wines of the year. My hat is off to those who can determine such detailed conclusions. It's another thing to list one's Top 10 Wine Types of the year. This is merely a matter of determining what category of wines most pleased during the year. I prefer this later approach as it relieves me from having to mention individual wines and it's a far…
Nov 28, 2011
Seven years of blogging about wine will produce some interesting changes in a person. With this, my 2,361st post on Fermentation, I mark the seventh anniversary of maintaining this platform. My output over these past seven years amounts to 6.5 posts per week for 364 weeks. I'm not sure what kind of an achievement that is besides perseverance and habit maintenance. However, it has produced in me the formation of some ideas about wine blogging, writing, journaling, the media and…
Oct 5, 2011
When I heard the news that Steve Jobs, 56 (56!!), had died I was in the process of syncing my Apple iPhone to my Apple iTunes account via my Apple iMac, while uploading Apple Pages, Keynote and Numbers software to my Apple MacBook Pro, and reading Wines & Vines Magazine on my Apple iPad with sounds of Ornette Coleman all around me via my Apple iPod. Upon digesting the news, I made the semi-crass move of checking what my Apple…