All things wine…especially Napa Valley Fine Wines
Wine Experiences: What do YOU value most? If you read most anything about the wine industry these days you can’t miss the word ‘experience’ or ‘experiential’. Everyone has decided they need to make wine ‘an experience’ to attract the Millennials of the world, who are basically shunning wine over other forms of alcohol and in […]
In Vino Memoriae I have come to be a big believer in the phrase above. In wine there are memories! Some studies say aromas are the most potent memory trigger in our body. Some say it is taste, others might say old photographs. But I am here to say I believe it is wine! Let […]
June 21st…summer…Take your Dog to Work Day…solstice…longest day…shortest night…our anniversary. Today would have been our 44th anniversary. Instead our lives together stopped at 41. Naturally today my thoughts are focused on the incredible woman who said ‘I Do’ on this day way back in 1975. I believe we owed our happiness together to one thing: […]
I just returned from a large family wedding and as always I had my eye on the wine situations I encountered. One of my wine experiences is captured in the photo below: As I asked in opening this post: What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing wrong? Perhaps, but only if you want the wine industry […]
Last night someone asked me why I hadn’t explained why we have Chilean wines in our cellar. So here we go…and as you might expect there is a reason and a story. Our cellar holdings are majority Napa reds at 86%. These are followed by single digit percentages of Italian and French wines. Picking up […]
Some nights I miss my wife more than usual, especially this time of year. Often, no matter the hustle and bustle of our lives, she would insist we put the world aside, uncork a bottle of wine, snuggle, and talk. Often on our patio, at times the sofa, and if we were lucky it was […]