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Finding yourself in the presence of greatness can be a near overwelming experience. I’m not talking about walking into an elevator and finding yourself hip to hip to Tom Cruise. I’m talking about experiencing the kind of transcendent greatness that is almost only delivered by those rare artists that build steps for others that no one knew previously could support the kind of achievement these artists deliver. I saw the 81 year old Oscar Peterson perform last night to a…
——————————————————————————————————————————–TAKE THE "WHY DID YOU BUY THAT WINE" SURVEY. CLICK HERE——————————————————————————————————————————– I had a long heart to palate talk with myself this long weekend and came to a consequential conclusion: I’m done with cheap, cute-animal-labeled, wines. I’m done drinking them. I’m done thinking about them. I’m just done. I was in a grocery store with a pretty good wine department looking for something to drink by the pool. All of a sudden I realized I was in a zoo: Kangaroos,…
My beautiful wife Ginny is set to leave me home with the kids (a dubious decision) tomorrow as she heads off for Burning Man for the 7th or 8th time. I’ve never been to Burning Man mainly because I’m not a big fan of the desert and dust. However, one year I considered going and creating the Desert Wine Cafe for the oenophile folk at the event. But my wife, a veteran, informed me it’s not really a wine-kinda-thing. I…
You just never know what’s going to impress. Saturday we had a nice little dinner party here. No reason for it other than just to get together good friends. Of course, wine was involved. No one broke out any big guns that night. But, we did sample some very interesting wines that demonstrated something that is all too often the case: An evening’s wines that are the most memorable often have an interesting story to tell. Wine #1: Pinot Noir,…
The FERMENTATION family took a jaunt about western Sonoma County yesterday; a nice Sunday afternoon drive into the hinterland of Sonoma County. Beyond the beauty of the vast pasture land, it was the evidence of this county’s bounty that really put the smile on my face. Sitting now in my kitchen is a 40 lb box of freshly picked gravenstien apples. these are not the pristine apples of supermarket lore. They have tiny flaws here and there, a nubbin, a…
