Mar 12, 2007
For those of you who live in the Northern climes or in regions where the snow still sits on the ground and the temperatures hover around 10 degrees, this post might appear a case of rubbing it in. That’s not my intention and I apologize for any distress this post might create for you. It’s March 12 and here in Glen Ellen it is 78 degrees, not a cloud in the sky. It may as well be spring. My trees…
Mar 8, 2007
When I was growing up mine was a "Sebastiani House", rather than a "Gallo House". That’s not to say my mother and father were wine drinkers, but just that the jug of wine my mother always kept on hand was Sebastiani. However, there are some people, many people (millions?) in fact, that were and are "Gallo Homes". I suspect its not just the folks in the wine industry who stopped for a moment of reflection at the news that Ernest…
Mar 7, 2007
The measure of a person’s commitment to an idea must surely be the length to which they are willing to go to make their point. When a person is willing to go the distance, and do so with the kind of delicious satire that Darryl Roberts of Wine X Magazine does, you really have to step back and marvel at the brilliance. As we recently heard, Roberts shut down his subversive Wine X Magazine after years of publishing. In doing…
Mar 1, 2007
My email box tends to be full most of the time. Not as full as others, but full enough. The cool thing about FERMENTATION is that most people who want to write an email about something I’ve written tend to just post a comment. But sometimes they send an emal and don’t comment. Sometimes they don’t leave a name either. Sometimes there vocabulary is, well, descriptive. For example: "You and your F*cking wine blog awards can kiss my wine-drinking ass….
Feb 22, 2007
It has been quite a while since I dated. I’ve been off the market for a long time. Yet, it hasn’t escaped my notice that the "market" has changed. Or at least the way people interact in the marketplace of coupling has changed. My first date, independent of my parents driving me to the movies to meet Robyn Williams, happened after I got the independence of my drivers license. To get that date scheduled I had to maneuver through my…