As I’ve said before, I very much like the idea of children being introduced to wine not just by letting them watch the adults gulp it, but also by letting them sip it around the table. It’s a good idea for any number of reason, most of which would turn those in the "prevention" community into raving lunatics. And so I was delighted, on a number of levels to come across the new "Daddy Winebucks" blog, tag-lined: "Where Whine &…

I received a bottle of Rockaway Cabernet in the mail today, sent from Rodney Strong Vineyards. A big, heavy bottle. Big Punt. Cool looking label. I’m looking forward to trying it. But, more important than the bottle’s girth was the opportunity it provided me to reflect on the nature of friendship, blogging and irony. All these things seemed to crash together a few days ago when I wrote on the details of a group blogging/review project involving Rockaway. It’s Ironic…

Comic relief combined with educated insights. It’s not very common in the wine blogosphere or in the entire realm of wine writing, for that matter. There is a compulsion to treat wine and the business of wine very seriously. It is, after all, art in a bottle and the artists and their patrons need to treated with respect. I’m not sure how much respect Ron Washam has for the art or its patrons. However, I do know that he’s both…