Please, allow me to rant.
Part of the reason I vowed to never work in a restaurant again was that people can be so rude, so unreasonable, so incredibly mean. And it’s hard to just shake it off, although it would often leave me shaking. Like the time the very obnoxious woman sent every course back, starting […]
But not necessarily in that order, right?
I have a confession to make. I am a bit of a procrastinator. No, really, I am. When I received both my W-2’s, they got moved from place to place, waiting patiently to be examined. But it wasn’t until last week that I buckled down and started thinking about the situation. […]
Hmmm, it really does seem that I’m getting to be a one-grape kinda girl. After the last post, I realized that there were two recent Pinot Noir sightings that I hadn’t written about yet. To my delight, BK picked up a Spatburgunder at The Wine Mine last week. Then on Sunday, I was highly disappointed when […]
There are times when I taste a wine and specific flavors and memories come rushing at me, and it suprises the hell out of me. Because I can vividly remember trying so hard, straining to scan the dusty corridors of my brain to grasp a name for the aroma in the glass and coming up empty. One of […]
I’ve been thinking about this Wine Blogging Wednesday assignment for a while, different wine styles and varieties running through my head like determined marathon competitors. Would the winner be Petite Sirah: the first unusual variety I fell in love with over ten years ago? Gewurztraminer: that wonderful match for Thai food? Pinot Noir: the one I […]
I have some exciting news I’ve been meaning to share and somehow forgot. Last Monday, when I posted about my Open That Bottle Night party, I also sent an e-mail about it to John and Dottie, who created the event. I told them how it was my second OTBN and how I was much more […]
Wine,
Here we are, a year later, and I’m still enamored. Last Valentine’s Day I charted the history of our relationship–the initial attraction, which was like flirting across a room when you don’t really know someone. The tug of intrigue, how you made me want to find out more. And as much as I think I know now, I know there is […]
Red Wine
(”Vino Tinto” by Sandra Cisneros, racked and filtered)
Wine that isn’t white swims
you to my mind. Maybe Pinot Noir
or the king of reds. The tannins,
the warmth, the smooth velvet that slips
down my throat and past my hips,
making incisions as it goes, burning
little fires across my lips.
An evening that begins with pop.
This one, […]
When I was in grad school, one semester I took a poetry workshop focused on translation. It could be from one language to another or it could be from one interpretation to another. My favorite thing to do was to take a poem I love and rewrite it from another angle or perspective, upping some […]
I found out about Open That Bottle Night last year when I was reading Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher’s book Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion : Red, White, and Bubbly to Celebrate the Joy of Living. Right then I knew it was a remarkable idea and couldn’t wait for February. To put forth this idea […]
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