Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Growing up, my parents, George and Alverna, never threw dinner parties, unless you consider the family and close friends that made the pilgrimage to our home on Thanksgiving and Easter to feast on Turkey and roasts a dinner party—I don't. There is something of a hint of obligation in attending a holiday gathering. Attendance at the "Dinner Party" is neither obligatory nor infused with the kind of tradition that holiday gatherngs impose. The Dinner Party—a good one— is, and should…
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The 2009 North American Wine Bloggers Conference will be upon me and my blogging colleagues in couple days, a circumstance that has continued to inspire me to think about the wine blogging genre and my own interest in it. More specifically, I've been thinking about the impact that blogging has had on me personally.Last night I sat with a magnificent friend in a restaurant in Napa. We shared a lovely meal, the two of us. My Sazerac, Manhattan, savory food…
Rules of ConductRules of EngagementRules for LivingRules for Romance Rules, Rules, Rules. I've been thinking about them lately and even more lately chose to disregard one set of rules that, for all their ballyhooed value, actually put a cramp in my style and didn't match my disposition and no one got hurt by my not following them. But it got me thinking about the the massive, detailed and often overly intricate set of rules that govern wine and its consumption….
I've been thinking about "Anonymous Sources" this week, among other things. So has Jeff. You just don't see the anonymous source used too often in wine writing and journalism associated with the wine trade. This must be the case for the most obvious reason. Wine criticism is worthless without a name or brand associated with it. Maybe I've been distracted the passed 20 years, but I can't remember too many cases when anonymous sources were liberally used by wine writers…
