Jul 14, 2009
I read recently that the most popular dog breed in France is the Poodle. Here in the U.S. it is the Labrador Retriever. This difference alone isn't quite enough to force Americans to be suspicious of the French. But it makes you think. We (wine lovers) should also be forced to think about the French today, on the day of their national celebration of their Republic: Bastille Day. There's no denying that the American wine industry in its modern form…
Jul 12, 2009
The relationship between wine, this blog and penis enlargement seems to be growing. (And I suspect the previous sentence will only increase the size and frequency of comments on this blog about the “devices that gain 1-3 inches in your penis size”.) Now, as everyone knows, size doesn’t matter, whether we are talking about penises or wine. This is a fact despite all the growth in concern over penis size expressed on a number of blogs and the tendency over…
Jul 11, 2009
The joy of finding just the right pairing has come to me mainly in the form of epiphanies. There I am and all of a sudden, without realizing it was coming down the pike, I realize that I are staring a remarkable pairing right in the face. I had just such an epiphany today. As I said, I never see these things coming primarily because I simply don't give that much thought to wine and food pairings. I shouldn't admit…
Jun 25, 2009
I've always enjoyed playing games, partly because of my competitive nature but also because a good, well-designed game can reveal a lot about the players. And I like revelation. The first game (not sport) that I was really good at was "Quarters". For some reason I was coordinated in such a way that I could bounce that quarter into a glass of liquid repeatedly. I was scary-good! In college I was the ringer that would be placed in quarters games…
Jun 16, 2009
George Wark was not a wine drinking man. He drank bourbon. I never saw him drink wine, though he did once relate to me the story of the best drink of wine he ever had. I often wonder what he would have thought of his son making a career in wine. I'm positive he would have approved and, being a betting man, I'd wager I could have gotten him on the wine train. Before he became a prominent contractor in…